SWAN Village-to-Village Messaging System: Common Areas Where Chemicals Lurk

Common Areas Where Chemicals Lurk

Posted by SSsh on 12/2/2008, 4:29 pm, in reply to "The Toxic Bucket"
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Common Areas Where Chemicals Lurk

Chemicals are ubiquitous and increasingly present in our homes, cars and even our food. Thousands of new synthetic chemicals come into manufactured consumer products every year with no safety testing or public approval process. More than 80,000 new chemicals now circulate in consumer products since the rise of the petrochemical industry. Through our lungs, skin and GI tract, we are soaking up chemicals that we'd be hard-pressed to spell or pronounce, if we could even find out what they were.

Human fat tissue sampled in the United States has shown 700 chemical contaminants that have not been chemically identified.1