A University of California at San Francisco study of pregnant women has found 55 chemicals in their bodies that have never before been reported in people and another 42 whose origin or purposes are unknown.
The same chemicals were found in the women’s children after they were born.
Using a mass spectrometer, the researchers found:
- 42 of the chemicals are plasticizers, which make things soft and flexible;
- 29 are related to the pharmaceutical industry;
- 29 are pesticides, many of which are banned in other countries but still used on crops grown in the U.S.;
- seven belong to the PFAS family, chemicals used to make waterproof clothing and nonstick cooking pans.
Many of the chemicals – some of the PFAS clan, for example – are mysterious because the companies that make them are not required to disclose the safety standards that the companies use to declare their products safe for human contact.
The researchers called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enforce uniform standards for chemical companies, including disclosing the uses for which their products are designed and the internal safety standards companies set for their compounds.
TRENDPOST: As we have said before, eating organic, drinking clean water, and using cleaning and personal care products made from ingredients that occur in nature are no longer left-wing affectations but are now matters of self-defense.
The food and drug industries, manufacturers, and government agencies will not protect you. Each of us has to be vigilant and a warrior for our own health.