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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do you pour those down your babies throats 4 or 5 times a day?
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.
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!
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
“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.
Not necessarily the Chinese.
I guess that would depend on your diet, especially if you drink a lot of mass-produced cow’s milk.
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?
“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.
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.
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.
I bet it’s the “natural chain reaction” area in what used to be called Gabon (Africa). That’s a very unusual area.
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