Rant Chemicals in your Environment

Altruist
Eugene, OR
In a recent post about Alzheimer's I mentioned speculation about Aluminum being causative. Siempre Solo made an excellent response about the findings that aluminum was being found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and pointed out that the aluminum is not just in cooking utensils it is in baking soda and many other things that we consume.

There has also been a great increase in the number of cancers which might be due to environmental factors and from chemicals in things we eat and drink.

In the past 34 years, EPA has only been able to regulate five chemicals and require testing for roughly 200 of the estimated 80,000 chemicals in commerce. In this free market Economy all chemicals are considered safe until proven otherwise.

In my opinion all chemicals should be suspect until proven safe, and that proof should come from an independent agency not from the chemical companies producing the product.

The President's Cancer Panel Report said that "the true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated. With nearly 80,000 chemicals on the market in the United States — many of which are used by millions of Americans in their daily lives and are un-studied or understudied and largely unregulated — exposure to potential environmental carcinogens is widespread," the report said. "Efforts to inform the public of such harmful exposures and how to prevent them must be increased."

http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.h...

This report has of course been attacked as partisan by the Republicans and by the Chemical industry, but the panel members were appointed by Bush.

This article indicates that Obama has a lot of work to do to help make Americans safe again, and lists 6 priorities.

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environment...

This is an interesting site to help you figure out what things are in our food.

http://www.food-info.net/uk/ingredientli...