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Toddlers absorb more toxic chemicals than mothers.
In a world permeated with chemicals, toddlers' penchant for crawling on floors, chewing on assorted objects and touching everything within reach expose their bodies to a disproportionate amount of toxic pollutants. Oakland Tribune, California. 4 September 2008.
Study: fire retardant chemicals more likely to be found in children.
Chemicals from fire retardants used in many household products, from car seats and mattresses to computers and curling irons, concentrate in higher levels in the bodies of young children than in their mothers, according a study released today by an environmental group. Riverside Press-Enterprise, California. 4 September 2008.
Fire retardant chemicals found in toddlers' blood.
A new study finds that young children have high levels of chemical fire retardants in their blood, on average three times higher than their mothers.' USA Today. 4 September 2008.
Flame retardants in us all.
PBDE levels in children throughout the United States are possibly much higher than in their parents. Oakland Tribune, California. 12 December 2005.
Flame retardant Deca subject of industrial, scientific debate.
The molecule is supposed to be stable, unreactive, hard to digest. It may, in fact, be none of those. Oakland Tribune, California. 12 December 2005.
Flame out.
With no substantive discussions underway within the state government on how to enforce a much-hyped ban on flame retardants, the ban appears likely to go into place next June with the chemicals still tainting consumer products. Oakland Tribune, California. 18 July 2005.
Study shows babies born with polluted systems.
Babies enter the world with hundreds of industrial chemicals, solvents and pesticides in their veins, according to a new study of umbilical cord blood being released today by the Environmental Working Group. Oakland Tribune, California. 14 July 2005.
The great experiment.
Advances in synthetic chemistry have made our lives more comfortable and secure than possible even a generation ago. The downside of that transition is increasingly apparent: In the course of a generation, we have contaminated virtually all of Earth's biological systems. Oakland Tribune, California. 13 March 2005.
What's in you?
He's a typical kid from a typical family, picked for an Oakland Tribune investigation of chemical pollutants in our bodies. His surprisingly high levels, scientists say, suggests infants and toddlers have vastly higher levels of some chemical pollutants than health officials suspect — or even consider safe. Oakland Tribune, California. 12 March 2005.
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