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Study finds levels of toxic flame retardants 5 times higher in toddlers

These results are particularly troubling since children, ages one to five, are in important stages of development and likely more sensitive to environmental chemicals, particularly those that affect their metabolism and hormones.

Filed Under: Health Science Tagged With: action, biomarkers, cancer, chemicals, chlorinated tris, diabetes, Dr. Heather Stapleton, Duke University, dust, endocrine disruptor, environmental, Environmental Science & Technology, EPA, EWG, exposure, families, Firemaster 550, flame retardants, health, ip-TPhPs, isopropyl triphenyl phosphates, Johanna Congleton, metabolism, obesity, PBDE, phthalates, policy, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, products, retailers, scientific tests, TDCIPP, toxic, TPhP, triphenyl phosphate, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, bill, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

Eight Going on Eighteen: Our Daughter and Early Puberty

A few years ago, I noticed that my beautiful, vivacious seven-year-old daughter had breasts. Wasn’t this a little young? She was into Harry Potter, rainbow sherbet and puppies — not bras and pads.

Filed Under: Health Science Tagged With: bisphenol A, chemicals, dioxin, early puberty, endocrine, endocrine disruptor, hormone, Lautenberg, obesity, PBDE, TSCA

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