Mike, did your mother breast feed you this as a child?

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Toxic Flame Retardant Found in Breast Milk
2 hours, 28 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several American mothers nursing their infants
had high levels of potentially toxic flame retardant chemicals in
their breastmilk, a U.S. environmental group said on Tuesday.

While the study by the Environmental Working Group was small and did
not show any health effects in the babies, the group said it showed
just how widespread the chemicals are.

The chemicals are bromine-based fire retardants and are used in a wide
range of products including furniture, computers, television sets,
automobiles, copy machines and hair dryers to make them less likely to
catch fire. They can build up in the body over years.

"Brominated fire retardants impair attention, learning, memory, and
behavior in laboratory animals at surprisingly low levels," the EWG
report reads.

"The most sensitive time for toxic effects is during periods of rapid
brain development."

The EWG, a non-profit group that has publicized the presence of many
different chemicals in products and the environment, tested the breast
milk of 20 first-time mothers across the country, including
Washington, D.C., Evergreen, Colorado, and Los Angeles.

"The average level of bromine-based fire retardants in the milk of 20
first-time mothers was 75 times the average found in recent European
studies," the report reads.

"Milk from two study participants contained the highest levels of fire
retardants ever reported in the United States, and milk from several
of the mothers in EWG's study had among the highest levels of these
chemicals yet detected worldwide.

"These results confirm recently published findings from University of
Texas researchers, as well as other U.S. studies, that American babies
are exposed to far higher amounts of fire retardants than babies in
Europe, where some of these chemicals have already been banned," the
EWG said.

"In the United States, only California and Maine have acted to
restrict the use of these chemicals."

The group stressed that women should not stop breastfeeding. No study
links intake of the chemicals from breastmilk with any problems in
children.

Any health effects probably take place while the children are still in
the womb, the group said.

Albemarle Corp. of Richmond, Virginia, one of the companies that makes
the flame-retardant chemicals, said it was working to find out if the
chemicals are dangerous.

"As an industry group and as a company we are working with just about
any and every scientific group that is doing long-term studies on the
safety of these products," spokesman Michael Whitlow said.




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