Toxic elements found in infants' cord blood

By Christine Stapleton
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 14, 2005

In a benchmark study released today, researchers found an average of 200 industrial compounds, pollutants and other chemicals in the umbilical cord blood of newborns, including seven dangerous pesticides - some banned in the United States more than 30 years ago.

The report, Body Burden - The Pollution in Newborns, by the Washington,D.C.-based Environmental Working Group, detected 287 chemicals in the umbilical cord blood of 10 newborns. Of those chemicals, 76 cause cancer in humans or animals, 94 are toxic to the brain and nervous system and 79 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests.

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