Ron Garner
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 Some industrial chemicals, detergents, and food dyes are classified as hormone disrupters because they are estrogen mimics. Our bodies mistake synthetic estrogens for the real thing, accept it, and process it, which causes an imbalance of our natural hormones. Red Dye #3, for example, which is used in hot dogs and other processed foods, contains synthetic estrogen. The plastic coating in many food cans contains a powerful estrogen mimic. In the wild, we are now finding that animals, birds, and fish exposed to pesticides and industrial chemicals are having difficulty producing healthy offspring. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 When this is considered against the multimillion-dollar race for the cure waged by the Alzheimer's empire, we must demand that our public officials use our resources to further identify the neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals in our food, drinking water, and environment, and that they strictly regulate those with known neurotoxic effects. The "fight" against Alzheimer's disease means avoiding exposures to toxins, and defending our younger generations from the ravages of industrial chemicals on their developing brains.
Why does aluminum have a bad rap? |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Developmental Neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals. Grandjean, P; Landrigan, PJ. The Lancet, 2006, 368:2167-2178
Autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders may be caused by exposure to industrial chemicals such as lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, arsenic and toluene. An additional 200 chemicals are known to have adverse neurological effects in adults. The authors state that new approaches for testing and control of chemicals that take into account the developing brain are needed. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 As with most industrial chemicals, even pesticides, the premarket testing required for Maneb was limited. It did not include testing on monkeys, for example. Chronic experimental exposure testing in nonhuman primates, the only kind of research study likely to be sensitive enough to detect an effect such as chemically induced Parkinsonism, is expensive and time consuming. Such evaluations ate almost never performed routinely for industrial chemicals. |
Ron Garner
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| Not only is the oxygen content of the air many of us are breathing deficient, but industrial emissions and engine exhausts are continually polluting the air as well. industrial chemicals such as pesticides, fungicides and insecticides, plastics, radiation, and synthetic products are changing the natural health-giving properties of our food. They introduce toxins to our bodies that our ancestors did not have to cope with.
Some industrial chemicals, detergents, and food dyes are classified as hormone disrupters because they are estrogen mimics. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 In a 2005 study, researchers found 287 industrial chemicals, including pesticides, phthalates, dioxins, flame-retardants, and the breakdown chemicals of Teflon, in the fetal cord blood of ten newborn infants from around the country—transmitted to the infants by their mothers' exposures before and during pregnancy.
We are facing both an increasing prevalence of autoimmunity and an increasing exposure to environmental toxins. Is it clear that the increased exposure of environmental toxins is causing the increase in autoimmunity? |
Ron Garner
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| In the wild, we are now finding that animals, birds, and fish exposed to pesticides and industrial chemicals are having difficulty producing healthy offspring. They are developing shrunken male sex organs, and many are developing both testes and ovaries. These sexual organ changes are leading to behavioral changes, reproductive loss, and early mortality in offspring.
Oxygen deficiency, air and chemical pollution, and denatured foods place great stresses on our organs and cells. Our bodies are being forced to cope with pollution and inferior nutrition as never before. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 People carry within their bodies a chemical cocktail of industrial chemicals, pesticides, food additives, heavy metals, and the residues of conventional pharmaceutical drugs, as well as legal drugs like alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine and illegal drugs such as marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine, and heroin.
Today people are exposed to chemicals in far greater concentrations than previous generations were. For example, over 158 million Americans live in areas that exceed smog standards.1 It's estimated that 20% of the U.S. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Contrary to popular belief, industrial chemicals in consumer products are essentially unregulated in the United States," Jane reported. "Except for chemicals added directly to food, there is no legal requirement for health and safety testing or human exposure monitoring for any chemical in commerce."6 Beauty Secrets was released at the National Press Club in Washington DC on November 28, 2000. With the nation focused on a still-undecided election, it was a quiet day for news at the Press Club, though some reporters — mostly female — showed up for the event. |
| Under the weak US regulatory system, industrial chemicals are allowed onto the market with little or no health and safety data, consumer products can contain unlimited amounts of toxic chemicals, and there is no way for consumers or businesses to tell the difference between safe and hazardous products.
"In the market we have created through our public policies, there is no pressing need for companies to design their products to be as safe as possible," said Michael P. Wilson, PhD, a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 For the report, environmental and public health groups contracted with a laboratory to test seventy-two name-brand, off-the-shelf beauty products for the presence of phthalates, a family of industrial chemicals linked to permanent birth defects in the male reproductive system.
You can find a listing of who has pledged not to use harmful chemicals and to implement substitution plans that replace hazardous materials with safer alternatives in every market they serve on the Safe Cosmetics Campaign website: www.safecosmetics.org/companies/signers.cfm. |
Mark Schapiro
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 The grandmothers had more residues of pesticides and old industrial chemicals like polychlorinated biphenyls, which continue to show up in people, wildlife, and soil years after they were banned in Europe (and the United States) for their carcinogenic and neurotoxic effects. Clearly, chemicals were finding their generational niche.
I watched in the Parliament's cafeteria as the women presented their concerns to a group of MEPs. |
| From cosmetics to appliances, industrial chemicals to toys, the Europeans are demonstrating that there are alternatives by creating legal and financial incentives for industry to create them. The EU estimates that its new environmental directives have spurred into being billions of dollars in new "greener" industries and technology. In Europe, "green chemists" have been encouraged to develop more benign alternatives to the thousands of toxic chemicals on the market today. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Such evaluations ate almost never performed routinely for industrial chemicals.
Nonetheless, suspicious environmental toxicologists—and many have learned to be suspicious—were not surprised to learn of Maneb's link to Parkinsonism. The key limiting step (often referred to as the rate-limiting step by analogy to chemical reactions) in manganese toxicity is its poor absorption from the gut. Without that block, we would all be adversely affected merely from the natural manganese in our own diets. |
Bill Sardi
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 Is it pesticides, industrial chemicals, electromagnetic fields, acidity, germs, oxygen free radicals, hormones, or all of these?
An argument can be made for all of the above causes. But the pervasive factor involved in the vast majority of cancer is aging.
No matter how efficient we may become at delivering health care, we must also seek to reduce demand by keeping people from developing diseases in the first place. |
| Regardless of what you may have read elsewhere, cancer is a disease of aging, not primarily caused by environmental toxins such as pesticides or industrial chemicals, which may be cancer causing agents (carcinogens), but do not significantly contribute to cancer mortality rates. This is often difficult for cancer patients to comprehend. Carcinogens are tested in lab dishes, or administered to animals in unnaturally high doses. The human body has defenses against carcinogens. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| During these three conferences, investigators shared dozens of papers investigating links between industrial chemicals and autoimmunity, as well as data showing how damage is done to the tiniest immune cells by exposure to an array of environmental agents. Scientists linked exposure to compounds such as vinyl chloride— used in making plastic pipes (PVC), wire and cable coatings, and packaging materials—to a higher risk of developing mixed lupus, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis in people. |
Bill Sardi
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| Archives Surgery 139: 954-58, 2004] While there is concern expressed over known carcinogens, such as pesticides, industrial chemicals, etc, excessive weight is a far greater factor in breast cancer incidence and mortality. Women with pear-shaped figures, excessive body hair, or oily skin, are at greater risk for breast cancer. All these factors -weight, body hair and oily skin —are tied in with increased estrogen in breast tissue. [American Journal Clinical Nutrition 45: 283-89, 1987]
However, breast density appears to be more of a factor in determining risk, than is weight. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The authors went on to write that exposure to PPCPs, especially for aquatic organisms, may be more chronic than exposure to pesticides and other industrial chemicals "because PPCPS are constantly infused into the environment wherever humans live or visit." Daughton and Ternes warned in 1999 that prolonged exposure "could lead to cumulative, insidious, adverse impacts" that may not appear until it is too late to intervene.
80 percent of U.S. |
Stacy Malkan
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| Parents know intuitively that babies in the womb are more vulnerable to the effects of industrial chemicals than adults," said Jane Houlihan, vice president of research at the Environmental Working Group and lead author of the cord-blood study. "This intuition is backed by science that has unfolded primarily over the past two decades."
Pound for pound, kids absorb more chemicals into their bodies, and their immature systems often don't detoxify and eliminate chemicals as efficiently as adults. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These synthetic vitamins – which are really just industrial chemicals – may be called "Vitamin E" or "Vitamin A" or even "Vitamin C" but they have no functional resemblance to the real vitamins that occur in nature. Every single study over the past two decades that has sought to discredit Vitamin E, for example, focused on using synthetic Vitamin E in order to show harm. It is curious that no researcher from the world of conventional medicine will ever test the natural, full-spectrum vitamins, nutrients and phytochemicals that appear in nature. You know why? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Don't slather your children with personal care products made with industrial chemicals. Most sunscreen products, for example, are loaded with toxic chemicals that actually cause liver cancer and skin disorders. (A little sun is healthy for babies anyway. Vitamin D is essential for healthy bones and normal cell division.)
Don't feed your babies sugary or salty processed foods, or they'll grow up craving those things. Avoid anything with high-fructose corn syrup (like sodas), and don't feed them sweets made with refined sugar. |
Devra Davis
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 The National Cancer Institute and other federal agencies began a series of programs to assess the true effects of tobacco and certain widely used industrial chemicals. In 1978 these programs became more than rhetoric.
Until that time the government pretty much took industry reports on the safety of chemicals at face value, without requiring any documentation. This changed when it was learned that the company doing much of the testing for industry, Industrial Bio-Test, could not even find or account for all the animals it had supposedly studied. |
| Industrial Chemicals Inc. is a vast corporation. Divisions of the company make a number of pesticides and other cancer causing chemicals. Other parts of the same firm, such as AstraZeneca, are renowned for the development of drugs like tamoxifen, one of the most widely prescribed cancer drugs in the world today.
The best wars, to take an ironic line from President McKinley's secretary of state, are short, splendid little affairs, all pageantry and little fighting. The protracted war on cancer has been none of the above. How did we get to this point? |
| He chronicled the successes of the producers of tobacco and other cancer-causing materials in crafting scientific doubt about their hazards and the politically problematic efforts of the Carter administration to rein in tobacco and industrial chemicals.14 Sandra Steingraber drew well-deserved attention with her haunting, sometimes humorous books Living Downstream and Having Faith—the latter about becoming a mother as a cancer survivor in a world full of chemical risks. |
| For nearly a hundred years, we have known that smoking, sunlight, industrial chemicals, hormones, bad nutrition, alcohol, and bum luck, all affect the chance we will get cancer. The interviewees—all of whom had devoted their professional lives to studying the disease—recounted how experimental studies and case reports of sick workers had filled medical textbooks in the 1930s and 1940s with instances of cancers caused bv work and life. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Researchers working through two major laboratories found an alarming cocktail of 287 industrial chemicals and pollutants in the fetal cord blood of ten newborn infants from around the country, in samples taken by the American Red Cross. These chemicals included pesticides, phthalates, dioxins, flame retardants, and breakdown chemicals of Teflon, among other chemicals known to damage the immune system. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Originally, Congress passed the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) in 1976 as a means of giving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a way to track industrial chemicals produced within or imported into the United States, and to be a means for the federal government to require comprehensive health and safety testing for all new and existing chemicals.
But now the TSCA is one of the weakest environmental laws in the United States. The Chemical Manufacturers Association has waged a fierce battle against this act, mainly because of the safety testing requirements. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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| Philippe Grandjean and Philip Landrigan, declared that the role of industrial chemicals in causing neurodevelopmental disorders in human beings represents a "silent pandemic" in modern society. Their message may be a prescient one. Evidence has been mounting that exposure to metals, solvents, and pesticides present in our environment can cause severe clinical neurode-velopmental damage and may be contributing to the prevalence of learning disabilities, sensory deficits, developmental delays, cerebral palsy, autism, attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity disorder, and premature brain aging. |
| While all of our brains are vulnerable to the toxic effects of industrial chemicals such as lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), arsenic, and pesticides, those most susceptible to exposure to these noxious chemicals are children, from the prenatal stage onward. The development of the human brain in utero is an extremely fragile process, as the placenta is not an effective shield against environmental pollutants and the blood-brain barrier (which protects an adult brain from environmental insults) is not completely formed until the beginning of the third trimester. |
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