Back to the posting board! I have some interesting information for all of you: more than 75,000 chemicals have been developed and produced in the United States. Due to that kind of volume, most do not even have the most basic toxicity testing.
Why should you care? These chemicals, including flame retardants in mattresses, Teflon on your pans and plastics in your takeout container, may leech into you. Children are particularly vulnerable (hence the growing asthma rates in kids). As is the breastmilk of women. Did you know Teflon pans should not be used at high heat because then they release toxins (kinda makes you wonder why they put Teflon on pans in the first place).
What can you do? Care just a little bit more about the potential chemicals you expose yourself to. Until enough consumers start thinking about these dangers and demanding changes, the problem will continue.
To learn more, read this brilliant (and a little scary) New York Times Magazine article.
p.s. for those who care, Cingular is sending me a new phone. Yay!
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So glad about the phone, and that you're back posting. Missed your updates! Not so good about the chemicals. Any idea about hard anodized instead of teflon?
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