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Explosives chemical found in US baby formula (perchlorate, used in fireworks,rocket fuel,flares)
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 4/3/09 | AFP

Posted on 04/03/2009 7:24:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A chemical used in explosives, fireworks and rocket fuel has been found in powdered baby formula in the United States, the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG) said.

In "little-noticed findings," researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 15 brands of baby formula contained perchlorate, an oxidizer in solid fuels used in explosives, fireworks, road flares and rocket motors, the EWG said.

"Studies have established that the chemical is a potent thyroid toxin that may interfere with fetal and infant brain development," it said.

The EWG said the CDC study's findings raised "new concerns about perchlorate pollution, a legacy of Cold War rocket and missile tests."

The CDC study, which was conducted in 2006 and published last month in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, said perchlorate could inhibit the absorption of iodine by the thyroid and lead to growth and developmental problems in infants.

For the study, researchers tested samples of baby formula which they had picked up in a local shop.

The two most tainted brands, both cow's milk-based formulas with lactose, had a nearly 90-percent share of the US powdered baby milk market in 2000, the report found.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: babyformula; chemical; explosives; foodsupply; perchlorate; taintedfood
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To: KansasGirl; antiRepublicrat; kalee; Cailleach

“Perchlorate found in breast milk across US”

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7057


61 posted on 04/03/2009 9:31:54 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: dalereed
Perchlorate is used thousands of times more in cleaning solvents, carburator cleaner and dry cleaning!

do you pour those down your babies throats 4 or 5 times a day?

62 posted on 04/03/2009 9:40:02 PM PDT by dannyboy72a (The President of the United States should not be selling me insurance)
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To: dannyboy72a
"Perchlorate is used thousands of times more in cleaning solvents, carburator cleaner and dry cleaning!

do you pour those down your babies throats 4 or 5 times a day? "

I think you missed dalereed's point.

The article tried to tie this to rocket fuel,which is likely to be only a minor source of perchlorates in the environment. In other words, the author seems to have an agenda.

63 posted on 04/03/2009 9:57:48 PM PDT by Nik Naym (Everyone has a right to my opinion.)
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To: DBrow; NormsRevenge
“Another hazard is the mixing of lactose, a sugar, with the powerful rocket fuel perchlorate, leading some to fear that baby formula may detonate near the child..” [I made that up]

LOL!

This work presents the results of a screening study to identify and quantify perchlorate in mineral deposits and in some garden and crop fertilizers that

Perchlorate Identification in Fertilizers

It's NOT "rocket fuel"; it's FERTILIZER!

The idea is to make the babies grow, not explode!

64 posted on 04/03/2009 10:13:44 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

http://www.junkscience.com/jan05/perchlorate.html
http://www.google.com/custom?domains=JunkScience.com%3BCO2Science.org%3BGlobalWarming.org%3BFriendsOfScience.org%3BScienceAndPublicPolicy.org&q=perchlorate&sitesearch=JunkScience.com&sa=Google+Search&client=pub-3841204415070352&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&safe=active&cof=GALT%3A%230066CC%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23999999%3BVLC%3A336633%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3AFF9900%3BALC%3A0066CC%3BLC%3A0066CC%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A666666%3BGIMP%3A666666%3BFORID%3A1&hl=en

Bunch of lefty anti-chemical crap


65 posted on 04/03/2009 11:38:24 PM PDT by Wooly
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To: dannyboy72a

“do you pour those down your babies throats 4 or 5 times a day? “

No but i’ve breathed plenty and eaten plenty in small amounts over the years.

I really liked trichlorethelene but they banned it.


66 posted on 04/04/2009 12:19:23 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: Sherman Logan

Not necessarily the Chinese.


67 posted on 04/04/2009 6:45:50 AM PDT by pepperdog (The world has gone crazy.)
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To: KansasGirl

I guess that would depend on your diet, especially if you drink a lot of mass-produced cow’s milk.


68 posted on 04/04/2009 9:40:19 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Sherman Logan

The most stable Pu isotope has a T1/2 of 80 million years, so I doubt you’ll find it in nature. It’s not on a daughter path in a decay chain so it’s not being produced by decay, like Po or Ra.

Were you thinking of polonium?


69 posted on 04/05/2009 9:06:46 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: antiRepublicrat

“Score one for breast feeding.”

There is a link above that goes to an article describing perchlorate being found in breast milk, I think in 100% of the samples.


70 posted on 04/05/2009 9:09:25 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: DBrow

According to US EPA, “Plutonium is considered a man-made element, although scientists have found trace amounts of naturally occurring plutonium produced under highly unusual geologic circumstances.”

So it’s present naturally in the environment, just not very much of it. I suspect you are correct to right than I was.


71 posted on 04/05/2009 9:12:06 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: dannyboy72a

Perchlorates are not used in cleaning solvents, carburator cleaner and dry cleaning!

The chemical used in these ways most often, perchlorethylene, has a similar sounding name but is completely different chemically. It’s also present in the environment in much higher quantities than perchlorates.


72 posted on 04/05/2009 9:14:18 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: Sherman Logan

I bet it’s the “natural chain reaction” area in what used to be called Gabon (Africa). That’s a very unusual area.


73 posted on 04/05/2009 10:17:16 AM PDT by DBrow
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