The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency has made a fragrance free policy that applies to all their offices nationwide. The agency issued this policy “”in order to protect and maintain safe indoor environmental quality,” now establishing fragrance as an indoor air quality issue.

The policy is quite detailed as to what cannot be used. Read the policy at www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/154089.

To me, this is huge. Because now a policy regarding fragrances has been written and issued by the Centers for Disease Control. I would say this is a policy that can be brought to any employer to request that it be implemented in any office. Fragrance is no longer an MCS issue, it’s an indoor air quality issue.

This may be the result of another project of the CDC, measuring the toxic chemicals found in the blood of Americans. You can read their latest report at www.cdc.gov/exposurereport.