Just so you know, Consumer Reports won't be testing them any time soon, i bet, and their reply if you querry them will be fancy language that amounts to: there isn't enough dollar sales in the entire US of A to justify it or reach our standards for something needing Product Review.
I really question the Dollar Sales concept - the OTC section of a big grocery store like Fred Mens/Kroger devotes an entire aisle to them. Some places (depending on Population?), there is another half Aisle. I suspect the absorbency ingredients are the same as the products used in Women's "Sanitary Napkins", another product that needs to standardize the wording! The one difference might be whatever it is that "they" add for odor control for the incontinence products - they have that on the product wrapping/advertising, but don't say what that is. Put those two products together and Consumer Reports should review them - the sales total dollar amount must be staggering, nationally.
The current political regime is not about to spend a single dollar on the issue.
The place that might come up with a review on
Environmental/medical-toxicity is California. They must spend tens and tens of millions to force manufactures to (for example) label the bottom of a plastic drinking glass as "This product includes a known carcinogen". I used to have to read "Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), but now the California "ratings" seem to be expanding until they are approaching universal. Maybe the Feds will just let California do it to save the Federal Budget Deficit.
If it turns out that there are either toxic absorbency ingredients or one that causes enough "side effects" that enough Doctors get concerned about it, then we might finally see some reviews or warning labels. Make sure you speak to your doctor - if he hears 200 such complaints, he might act.
Note Disposable Diapers are raising concerns about effects on Landfills (Garbage Dumps, prior to political correctness). Add the incontience products and the issue gets even bigger.
Kroger's "store Brand" on Men's absorbency pads are just a repacking of the original manufacture's product, near as i can see.
Kroger ate a LOT of other stores, so you will see the word "Kroger" in small print on lots of product labels on "store brands". Look on the little bag you get from their Prescription Drug counter – it lists all the store names.
Prior to getting incontinence, i had no idea of these issues!
