March 31, 2008

• The Chemicals Within

  http://www.newsweek.com/id/105588

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  ' Clearly, there are chemicals in our bodies that don't belong there. The
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts a large, ongoing
  survey that has found 148 chemicals in Americans of all ages, including
  lead, mercury, dioxins and PCBs. Other scientists have detected
  antibacterial agents from liquid soaps in breast milk, infants' cord
  blood and the urine of young girls. And in 2005, the Environmental
  Working Group found an average of 200 chemicals in the cord blood of 10
  newborns, including known carcinogens and neurotoxins. "Our babies are
  being born pre-polluted," says Sharyle Patton of Commonweal, which
  cosponsored "Is It in Us?" "This is going to be the next big
  environmental issue after climate change...." '

  ' Scientists say we're now awash in a chemical brew of hormone-mimicking compounds that didn't exist 100 years ago. "We've changed the nature of nature," says Devra Lee Davis, director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh. '

  ' "We can't say there are conclusive data in humans," says Frederick vom Saal of the University of Missouri, who headed the second panel. "But given the fact that we're seeing irreparable damage in animals, for heaven's sake, let's get this out of products our babies are coming in contact with." '

       -- Newsweek, Feb. 4, 2008
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