They wouldn't allow stores to sell products that aren't safe, would they???? Think again.
Seventy thousand (70,000)
new chemicals have been introduced since WWII.1 Today, thousands of these
chemicals are appearing innocuously on the shelves of your grocery store.
Merely because they are for sale on the grocery store shelves, you assume
these products are safe for you and your family — but they are
not.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) admits that reliable toxicity data exists for only about 43 percent of chemicals in use today, and less than seven percent of chemicals used in high volume are thoroughly studied.2
What do we do with
these products? We disinfect our baby's room with them. We smear them on
our skin. We wash our clothes and linens in them, so we wear them all day
and sleep on them all night. We wash our dishes in them, and we brush our
teeth with them. They are a part of our lives. We don't question whether
they are safe. We grew up buying them from the grocery store. We trust that
they are safe.
But, if they are not, what option do we have?
1 H. Needleman & P. Landrigan, Raising Children Toxic Free (Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1994.)
2 J. Sheppard, Growing Up On Chemicals - Our Children's Toxic Environment