Are 1000s of daily products safe? You can't tell. - The Diigo Meta page

• 26 Nov 07
  

  Arne Løining

  chemicals health

  • More than $80 million later, the government program has yet to screen its first chemical.
  • More than 80% of studies analyzed by the Journal Sentinel show that the chemical adversely affects animals, causing cancer and other diseases.
  • Hundreds of studies have shown that these compounds cause a host of problems in lab animals. They include cancers of the breast, brain and testicles; lowered sperm counts, early puberty, miscarriages and other defects of the reproductive system; diabetes; attention deficit disorder, asthma and autism - all of which have spiked in people in recent decades since many of these chemicals saturated the marketplace

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