Infants exposed to 'potentially harmful' chemicals in vinyl
by Lindsey Konkel

Environmental Health News    Translate This Article
10 June 2014

On 10 June 2014 Environmental Health News reported: Most babies born prematurely and one-third of full-term infants are exposed to chemicals found in vinyl 'at a potentially harmful level,' according to new research in Finland. The study of 125 babies from the day they were born to 14 months old is the first comprehensive examination of infants' exposure to several phthalates. The chemicals, considered hormone disruptors, have been linked to health effects in animal tests and some human studies, including altered male genitalia, attention and learning problems, and asthma. The sources of the phthalates in the babies are unknown. But some researchers suspect that they came from hospital equipment or household materials. Shanna Swan, an environmental health scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, said she is concerned by the findings because preterm babies already have 'a whole lot stacked against them.' Eighty per cent of the infants born before 37 week and 30 per cent of the full-term infants had levels of four phthalate metabolites in their urine that exceeded adult guidelines, based on hormone effects, set by the European Food Safety Authority. In animal tests, the chemicals had anti-androgenic effects on offspring, which means they blocked male hormones that guide reproductive development. Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern health systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

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