Chlorine is one of the most harmful chemicals around. Ban the use of Clorox in your home!!! I don't think it is safe to use. As long as you use hot water and soap, and let it completely dry, it will be fine. It is so easy to let fear make us go overboard with chemicals. Every day we are finding out that chemicals/products that we thought were safe are now determined to be dangerous. We don't really know how they affect us, or how they interact with other chemicals.
<b>Companies are trying to make money, they don't truly care about our health over their profit.</b> Hydrogen peroxide is a wonderful and safe cleaning agent. There is no way in the world that we can completely eliminate bacteria. It is impossible. <b>I think the biggest danger is improperly disinfecting nebulizers. </b>
here's some more info:
What Can I Do to Protect My Family from the Hazards of Chlorine? You can do plenty.
One of the most important things you can do is buy paper products that aren't bleached with chlorine. That's because chlorine bleached paper can contain dioxin and organochlorine residues that can transfer to any food or person they come in contact with. Choose instead unbleached paper towels, napkins, facial tissue, and bathroom tissue... . How Does Paper Bleaching Affect Me?
The EPA says that using bleached coffee filters alone can result in a lifetime exposure to dioxin that "exceeds acceptable levels". Choose instead unbleached coffee filters.
Using detergents that contain chlorine in the dishwasher or clothes washer can pollute the air in your home. The water in the machines, which contains chlorine from the detergents, transfers the chlorine to the air through a process called "volatilization." We then breathe the contaminated air. Choose instead cleaning products made without chlorine. Once These Chemicals Are Inside My Body, What Can Happen?
Dishwashers are the worst culprits, releasing chemicals in a steamy mist when the door is opened after washing. In a clothes washer, chlorine mixes with the dirt in clothes to generate airborne, toxic chlorinated organic chemicals. Chlorine-free dishwashing detergents are readily available.
Click hereto read the rest of Seventh Generation's Information Bulletin, "Facts about Chlorine.