American Idol judge and unhappy manicure consumer Paula Abdul spoke passionately yesterday in favor of legislation before the California Senate Business and Professions Committee that would establish safety standards for manicure and pedicure equipment and rewrite state regulations mandating that nail shops follow sanitary practices.
In urging legislators to pass the bill, which was sponsored by San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Leland Yee, Abdul said of a visit to a Studio City nail salon in April 2004: "This horrific and debilitating condition was left under my thumb nail as a direct result of the salon using non-sanitized instruments. This type of infection has caused not only me, but thousands of women the expense of medical attention, loss of wages, loss of sleep, traumatic medical procedures, fear of returning to nails salons, and in my case and many others, emergency surgeries."
In 1999 and 2000, an outbreak due to improper cleaning of pedicure equipment at a salon in Watsonville, California caused mycobacterial infections in over 100 women. In November 2004, another outbreak led to over 100 complaints of leg lesions and infections in San Jose.
Assemblyman Yee proclaimed, "It is imperative that we protect the health and safety of all nail salon consumers. Clearly this is a public safety issue that needs to be addressed. To prevent another outbreak, I urge the State Senate and the Governor to quickly pass and sign this bill into law.”
Abdul continued her testimony, "Being a professional dancer, I'm no stranger to pain, but this time the pain was so excruciating that even my hair touching my thumb caused me to scream ... With an open heart and a selfless agenda, I implore you to pass this bill," she concluded.
The bill is expected to pass in committee and come before the full Senate sometime in the next two weeks.
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Article comments
1 - Temple Stark
She does kind of have a masculine jawline but I'm not sure "Paul" is correct.
2 - Temple Stark
I fixed it. I saw this earlier today myself - and if you hadn't I might have posted about it.
You nailed it.
(groan)
3 - Eric Olsen
thanks - where was "Paul"?
4 - Temple Stark
In the blurb and first paragraph. Quick fix was important 1) for accuracy etc etc and 2) because Google often takes that blurb.
Paul is dead.
He joined Zed.
5 - Eric Olsen
perhaps I was subliminally thinking of her partner Paul and "Paul and Paula"
6 - beadtot
Demanding a nail job? Salon owners and staff members are not prostitutes -- if aggressive demands are routine in their locales and places-of-business, then a culture of self-defense will prevail including microbial warfare. Innocent -- don't demand what you want from others? -- then, check your contacts (especially the habitually offensive or 'obnoxious' ones) to determine if others are demanding for you without your consent -- and both customer and business setting are showing the strain.
7 - Eric Olsen
I am unclear as to what all that means; are you saying that some of these places are purposely infecting their customers?
8 - beadtot
Throwing food? It's the 'transaction reflex', which can probably be co-related with 'distance' mentoring practice and demands. If contested in a court of law, it is also greatly probable that most mentoring practice and demands -- conducted largely through the telephone as a 'power-of-suggestion' activity -- are prosecutable so as to document and prevent harm which results from non-licensed mentoring and impersonating-an-officer. Another example of the 'trans-action reflex' most commonly exploited are the drug sales scenarios, where illicit drugs are planted on some dis-tracted chump and then a fake buyer zeroes in. [See 'Viewpoint: Prison report only skims surface' in The Examiner dated 6/28/2005.]
9 - beadtot
The salons are not purposely infecting their customers, but a harried work force cannot repel or otherwise control immunity from microbial influx. What are you going to do -- shoot the bird who liked the chicken in the demanding client's sandwich?
10 - Eric Olsen
I see
11 - JR
Are those computer generated comments?
12 - Eric Olsen
I like the food-throwing scenario analysis - I think I even understand some of it
13 - beadtot
The co-relation between non-licensed mentoring practice and sociological harm should really be investigated as a preventive intention.
14 - Eric Olsen
go for it