European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 10. 1990 the stars and stripes Page 7 Fra begins enforcing ban on phony cures by the los Angeles times your hair is falling out stand on your head and rub your stomach three times. Is your problem sexual How about putting a new Copper Penny under your Pillow every night. If that sounds ridiculous More than a few Ameri cans waste a lot of time and Money on so called cures for baldness and aphrodisiacs that have about the same Chance of Success according to the food and drug administration. Monday the Fra began enforcing a ban on the Sale of any non prescription hair Cream lotion or any other Over the counter product that promises to grow hair or prevent baldness. A similar ban also became effective on the Sale of Over the counter products labelled aphrodisiacs products that claim to increase sexual de sire. Compared to the so called baldness cures phony aphrodisiacs arc a relatively Small but equally intolerable problem according to a Fra  so called hair growing potions make up a very hip business. Americans spend about $300 million a ear on ineffectual cures for baldness according to the american hair loss Council. This group of medical and non medical professionals promotes Safe alternatives to baldness including the Only prescription drug with Fra approval for stimulating hair growth. The Fra announced the ban in july but there apparently has been no effect on the availability of the hair products. Despite the ban. Many who applauded the Fra s action say they expect marketers simply to change tactics. They will just Call them  said Irv Dick Stem. A spokesman for a Santa Monica. Calif., clinic that performs hair transplants and in some cases prescribes minoxidil an Fra approved product. The Agency approved Upjohn cos Rogate topical Solu Tion 2 percent minoxidil. The Only product it said satisfied scientific standards for proving effectiveness. Rogate was approved on a prescription basis Only. The Fra ban specifically covers Only products for external use. But the Agency stressed that there is also no evidence vitamins or food supplements prevent hair loss or grow hair. Those products May also tie removed from the Market on a Case in Case basis if such claims continue the Fra said the Fra announced the ban on external products after a panel of experts examined products with ingredients such As lanolin Olive Oil. Wheat germ Oil and vitamins. None were found to be effective and marketers did not respond to invitations to present any evidence of effectiveness the Fra said Dickstein said that there Are hundreds of Sham products on the Market and about As Manv different Sellers. Dress is Aloha casual but House panel insists Hawaii trip not a junket Washington a a congressional committee s eight Day trip to Hawaii comes in the dead of Winter hut the Congress Oman who arranged the excursion denies that it s merely another Jun Ket to a warm tropical locale we do have problems in Paradise rep. Patricia Saiki. A Flawau. Said alter the first hearing in Hawaii on monday with the committee on merchant Marin and fisheries. The memorandum from the chairman of the committee says the purpose of the trip is to examine atonal Ocean and coastal  Day s Itic Saiki Rary. However detailed a different Type of excursion "9 30 . Depart hotel for Sand Point Container Yard to tour Matson navigation facilities."11 30 . Return to hold. Afternoon free."5 30 . Depart hotel for cocktails and dinner John Dominis restaurant. Dress Aloha . Who persuaded the committee chairman and a handful of her panel col leagues to make the trip bristles Al suggestions that it s an obvious  i m tired and distressed by describing this visit As a junket. I think it s a bum  Saiki said. She said the panel is looking at these really heavy duty issues that affect the Economy and environment in Hawaii including fishing rights Ocean mining and the territorial  Agenda is a very full one Ami the committee members Are working. This re getting an earful from my people of Hawaii and How the decision making affects  Saiki  and three lawmakers from the 13-member committee two spouses and two other House members Are on the fact finding Mission that began Friday. Rep. Waller b. Jones.  the panel s chairman said in a dec. 15memo that the Pentagon had agreed to assign Navy personnel to escort the delegation aboard a Navy dc-9 plane to Honolulu. The Pentagon had no imme Diate comment on the  was no immediate estimate available on the Cost of the  itinerary for Jan. 5-13 includes a two hour Lour of Pearl Harbor a visit to a geophysical monitoring station in Mauna Loa and hearings monday and tuesday on "u.s. Oceans and coastal management issues in the  remainder of the proposed itinerary is heavy on free time and evening receptions  sunday the schedule called Lor Hawaii Civ. John d. Wait cd Iii to Toast the lawmakers at a cocktail reception at his mansion. Dress was coat and tie. The next Day called for dinner at the Haleks Lani hotel with Matson navigation As the Host and dress described As Aloha  tuesday evening the lawmakers were to Dine japanese style at an event sponsored by the Western Pacific regional fishery management Council. Dress again was Aloha  Bible at Peck and Call this hand held computer which can he used to Call up any urse in the Bible was among thousands of innovations on display at last weekend s Winter consumer electronics show in Las vegas Nev. The producer. Frank Lin computer of new Jersey also makes a Model thai has sufficient capacity to store 250,000 words in Span ish and their English equivalents. Vermont seeks ban on disposable diapers Montpelier. It. A gov. Madeleine Kunin wants Vermont to become the first state to ban All disposable diapers. But her plan is being trashed by some including Day care operators w to want no part of a Mountain of cloth. The time has come to be responsible and to find the Way to say yes yes to required statewide Recy cling. To bans on certain polluting products to changes in lifestyle Kunin said in her state of the stale speech last week. Only Nebraska has banned disposable diapers but it allows the Sale of diapers that arc biodegradable even though such products Aren t believed to break Down in the Depths of oxygen starved dumps. Kunin whose proposal would ban disposable Dia generations of babies later. They Are a Large part of the waste  said Ned Farquhar of the Vermont natural resources Council. The throwaway society is wasting Energy and materials not just with diapers but with a lot of similar products. We need to ban things to keep people from using  the piles of discarded diapers make up about 2 percent of the Nalion s waste and Aboul 85 percent of All parents use disposable diapers exclusively Accord ing to Industry Esli males. Vermont officials estimate thai 43.5 million Dispo Sable diapers end up in the Sale s dumps every year. Opponents of a ban argue thai the governor s plan won t have much Impact in solving the Sale s mourn ing garbage disposal problem. Representatives of the health and Day care industries also say they Are not pen b 1993 noted thai while the usable life of a disposable diaper May be a few hours they won t de to handle such a ban disposable diaper compose in dumps for hundreds of years or several there has been a tendency to pass into Law pro Grams on the basis of trendy catchwords rather than science or careful consideration of All the different  said William Gilbert a lobbyist representing the american paper  said that mandating cloth diapers would add two to three More loads of hot water washings weekly for families with babies raising its own questions Aboul environmental  centers especially in Rural parts of the state where there Are no cloth diaper services fear How they would be affected. If a ban went into effect today it would create real havoc " said Lea Hatch a Day care regulator Lor the stale. But she added that centers in areas with Access to diaper services already Are beginning to Oiler that option to parents in lieu of disposables. Bethany Carleton. Head of the Vermont in ally care association also said disposable diapers help prevent skin problems belter than cloth ones. There arc Deli nicely reasons people Don t want to go Back to cloth she said