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  toxins in the environment: the bigger issue

  I appreciate all the media attention lately around the topic of toxins in our environment, and am impatiently waiting for us as a country to address the real problem at hand: that our Federal regulatory system of protecting public health is broken.  The American Red Cross did a study in 2005, spearheaded by the Environmental Working Group and Commonweal, testing newborn chord blood (http://archive.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/execsumm.php) which found a total of 287 chemicals in the newborns. These chemicals include an array of neurotoxic chemicals (such as pesticides and flame retardants) and cancer causing chemicals.  

  These toxins are in our babies, so even if there are nifty devices to suck some of these chemicals from our feet (an interesting claim...), we should probably be asking the real question which is: How to we get our Federal government to follow a precautionary principle and prevent these exposures from occurring in our most vulnerable populations in the fist place?On Umbra on toxins in your body posted 1 year, 3 months ago 13 Responses