Re: environmental chemicals play a role in canser, says experts

[Guest guest]

This isn't new news, its been COMMON knowledge for a VERY long time.

Since the early 20th century, I'd guess.

Actually, maybe longer if you count the realization that some Romans

had about the toxicity of lead-glazed amphora on wine drinkers, and

lead plumbing on water quality, and the realization that 'quicksilver'

- i.e. mercury - eventually caused madness in 'mad hatters', etc.

EHP (Environmental Health Perspectives) had a great article on

environmental toxins effect on learning in children in last months

issue. I think its point was that the effects were very far reaching,

especially in the poor in developed and especially, developing

nations, who are disproportionally effected by things like mold and

environmental xenobiotics.

But lets not kid ourselves, they are everywhere. Now, after many years

of human impact on this planet, chemicals like pthalates are even

found in biologically active amounts in places we think of as pure and

unpolluted, like Antarctica- (in the cases of endocrine disruptors

this is especially distressing, as they effect fertility and

sexuality)

Things like this - unwillingness to write and especially, enforce

regulations on toxins - are the reasons some nations destroy

themselves (by their own 'success'?) while others grow and thrive.

Seriously - its that important..