Dermal Absorption Demonstration -
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qPKE9phMGSg
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#tilt #toxicchemicals

Pesticides and immunosuppression: the risks to public health - PubMed -
https://archive.ph/iWjA7
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[Effects of pesticides on cytokines production by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells--fenitrothion and glyphosate] - PubMed -
https://archive.ph/2ZFmm
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#toxicchemicals

#theantifungalbiotoxindetoxprotocol #toxicchemicals

#giftarticle on #PFAs #toxicchemicals

“about nine million people each year die from chronic diseases caused by environmental pollutants of all kinds. “We need prevention,” DeWitt says. “And that means acknowledging that environmental exposures lead to diseases.”

Corporations make money while we suffer. (I know, no duh)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/magazine/pfas-toxic-chemicals.html?unlocked_article_code=73D1QhVFF-5gkhVGNaixJ_5hhEqdx1gVfCNgVzamksHAoYIXIKPH_6fvKL12IHeEhXwfmfZFEr7Q7DL0ak0j8i1UPE_nyP9wbfk-l5ShIjP_IUaYF_SEhLAi_LlM-mNEj1LFqmQIl36c3Fuc2G5yyLh4Ga-0IK0tv8_CIlkTCL5C9PqqzCFQbn7hs7G6-Sss7LUsl6jWe8D040-x7IfRa97pMOi1Wf4eX3hh9eRjR5TJP0pmcQPvFL9dWD3z4SEzLBSO1qdoXFjahfJ7wgB_kAWNCUC7ZYGRMforQj8wzrJRvbHNAvmESdHV72_vYzxWEKp0vaBWy9BedQCewcA4&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@jotbe "Tatiana Santos, the head of chemicals policy at the European Environmental Bureau, said: 'The #EU’s failure to control harmful #chemicals is written in the contaminated blood of almost all Europeans. Every delay brings more suffering, sickness and even early deaths. The EU’s regulatory retreat could be the nail in the coffin of the European green deal, fuelling cynicism about untrustworthy elites doing deals with big #toxic lobbies, unless the commission makes good on its promise to detox products and stand up to polluters.'"
#ForeverChemicals #PFAS #ToxicChemicals #DowKnew #BASFKnew

I wrote about farms like this one when I did a story about #UnityMaine, the home of the #CommonGroundFair -- a celebration of #OrganicFarming in #Maine. It makes me so sad to see them having to go out of business because #MaineDEP and #EPAFail led to #sludge being marketed as "fertilizer".

‘I don’t know how we’ll survive’: the #farmers facing ruin in #Maine’s ‘forever chemicals’ crisis

Maine faces a crisis from #PFAS-contaminated produce, which is causing farms to close and farmers to face the loss of their livelihoods

by Tom Perkins, 22 Mar 2022 06.05 EDT

"Songbird Farm’s 17 acres (7 hectares) hold sandy loam fields, three greenhouses and cutover woods that comprise an idyllic setting near Maine’s central coast. The small organic operation carved out a niche growing heirloom grains, tomatoes, sweet garlic, cantaloupe and other products that were sold to organic food stores or as part of a community-supported agriculture program, where people pay to receive boxes of locally grown produce.

Farmers Johanna Davis and Adam Nordell bought Songbird in 2014. By 2021 the young family with their three-year-old son were hitting their stride, Nordell said.

"But disaster struck in December. The couple learned the farm’s previous owner had decades earlier used PFAS-tainted sewage sludge, or '#biosolids', as fertilizer on Songbird’s fields. Testing revealed their soil, drinking #water, irrigation water, #crops, chickens and #blood were #contaminated with high levels of the #ToxicChemicals.

"The couple quickly recalled products, alerted customers, suspended their operation and have been left deeply fearful for their financial and physical wellbeing.

"'This has flipped everything about our lives on its head,' Nordell said. 'We haven’t done a blood test on our kid yet and that’s the most terrifying part. It’s fucking devastating.'"

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/i-dont-know-how-well-survive-the-farmers-facing-ruin-in-americas-forever-chemicals-crisis

#EPA #InformedConsent #PFOS #WaterIsLife #ToxicWaste #FoodProduction

EPA approved a fuel ingredient even though it could cause cancer in virtually every person exposed over a lifetime.

An EPA document shows that a new Chevron fuel ingredient has a lifetime cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than what the agency usually finds acceptable.

#cancer #chemicals #Chevron #environment #PublicHealth #ToxicChemicals

https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-approved-chevron-fuel-ingredient-cancer-risk-plastics-biofuel

WTF! Are they going to install filters in the clouds?!! #PFAS is everywhere! Humans aren't the only ones who drink the water!!!

Army to install water filters for Selah homes affected by PFAS

Michael LeCompte, Digital Content Producer Aug 1, 2023

"The Yakima Training Center (YTC) will begin installing water filtration systems on wells providing water for homes in East Selah this fall.

"The Army will install Point Of Entry Treatment (POET) filtration systems in homes where per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) levels are above 70 parts per trillion (ppt)."

https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/army-to-install-water-filters-for-selah-homes-affected-by-pfas/article_683c5898-30a4-11ee-86c7-27d2e8a4db73.html

#WaterIsLife #Pollution #ToxicChemicals

EPA approved fuel ingredient nearly guaranteed to cause cancer over a lifetime.

"It is a million times higher than what the agency usually considers acceptable for new chemicals and six times worse than the risk of lung cancer from a lifetime of smoking."

#EPA #environment #Chevron #cancer #ToxicChemicals

https://truthout.org/articles/epa-approved-fuel-ingredient-nearly-guaranteed-to-cause-cancer-over-a-lifetime/

Pretty good article here, especially the last part about thousands of chemicals used in our foods that were "approved" but not by the FDA. And about the FDA's policy of never repeating a review. Many chemicals that were approved by the FDA were approved 50 years ago. Despite new evidence of problems, they won't review anything they've previously reviewed.

California Senate Committee on Health approves first-in-the-nation food chemical bill.

The five chemicals to be banned have been linked to many health risks including cancer, nervous system damage and hyperactivity.

https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/08/02/california-senate-committee-on-health-approves-first-in-the-nation-food-chemical-bill/

#food #health #safety #chemicals #FoodSafety #toxic #ToxicChemicals #medical #FDA #california #europe

Study finds evidence of #ToxicChemicals in the blood of #PregnantWomen

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-07-25-toxic-chemicals-cosmetics-plastics-blood-pregnant-women.html

#BadPollution

#Greenpeace and #IPEN report shows #recyling #plasticwaste releases #toxicchemicals

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-27-report-reveals-recycling-plastic-releases-toxic-chemicals.html

Americans want to believe we have the safest #drinkingwater in the world, but we don't; in fact, it contributes to many long-term preventable diseases

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-20-herbicides-fragrances-disinfection-commonly-detected-water-contaminants.html

#PollutedUSwatersystem #ToxicChemicals

by @jwinters in @grist:

"[P]arties to the Stockholm Convention — an international treaty regulating hazardous pollutants — agreed to add three new chemicals to a list of globally banned substances, including the plastic additives UV-328 and Dechlorane Plus."

https://grist.org/regulation/more-than-150-countries-agree-to-ban-3-toxic-chemicals/

#ToxicChemicals #methoxychlor #UV328 #DechloranePlus #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #climate #pollution #StockholmConvention

by @jwinters in @grist and #TeenVogue:

"Starting in 2025, the Toxics-Free Cosmetics Act will ban the manufacture, sale, and distribution of cosmetics containing nine chemicals and chemical classes, including formaldehyde and 'forever chemicals.'"

https://grist.org/regulation/washington-state-just-passed-the-nations-strongest-law-against-toxic-cosmetics/

#Washington #legislation #cosmetics #ToxicChemicals #ToxicsFreeCosmeticsAct #formaldehyde #lead #OrthoPhthalates #mercury #MethyleneGlycol #triclosan #PFAS #ForeverChemicals #pollution #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimatePolicy #climate

#Aluminum #environmental #pollution: the silent killer

Reema H. Alasfar & Rima J. Isaifan, Published July 2021

Abstract

The concern about aluminum (Al) toxicity has been proven in various cases. Some cases are associated with the fact that Al is a #neurotoxic substance that has been found in high levels in the brain tissues of #alzheimers disease (AD), #epilepsy, and autism patients. Other cases are related to infants, especially premature infants and ones with renal failure, who are at the risk of developing the central nervous system (CNS) and bone toxicity. This risk is a result of #infants’ exposure to Al from milk #formulas, intravenous-feeding solutions, and possibly from aluminum-containing vaccinations. Furthermore, most antiperspirants contain aluminum compounds that raise human exposure to toxic Al. This review paper is intended to discuss in detail the above concerns associated with aluminum, and hence urges the need for more studies exploring the effects of overexposure to Al and recommending mitigation actions.

Some "anthropogenic sources of aluminum are #toothpaste, vaccination, #antiperspirants, and some drugs, including buffered aspirin and #antacids (Crisponi et al. 2013). Currently, there is a great concern that human exposure to toxic aluminum from numerous sources is raising the potential for harmful health effects. Aluminum has been recently associated with neurotoxicity (Klotz et al. 2017). Hence, in the following sections, the paper discusses the impacts of aluminum on human health based on several cases reported in the literature."

The paper goes on to say that, "the human body is dermally exposed to Al by applying antiperspirants and cosmetic products (de Ligt et al. 2018). Specifically, aluminum chlorohydrate is an important ingredient present in many antiperspirant brands to treat hyperhidrosis (de Ligt et al. 2018). The frequent use of these items means that Al is accumulated in the body (Borowska and Brzoska 2015). As mentioned previously, Al is a toxic metal which has been linked to AD and other neurological disorder, and in the long-term contributes to bone toxicity. Hence, measuring the concentration of Al in antiperspirants and cosmetics and how much absorbed by the skin is of great necessity to ensure safe dermal use of these products. Unfortunately, there are only very few studies concerned with dermal exposure to Al (Corkins 2019; de Ligt et al. 2018; Freundlich et al. 1985; Weintraub et al. 1986)."

#AluminumPollution #ToxicChemicals #BodyShaming #BodyOdor

Read more: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-021-14700-0

Any excuse to sell more chemicals packaged in non-recyclable #plastic

How #Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad

A schoolgirl and a former traveling Bible salesman helped turn deodorants and antiperspirants from niche toiletries into an $18 billion industry

by Sarah Everts, August 2, 2012

Before the invention of deodorants and antiperspirants, "most people’s solution to body odor was to wash regularly and then to overwhelm any emerging stink with perfume. Those concerned about sweat percolating through clothing wore #DressShields, cotton or rubber pads placed in armpit areas which protected fabric from the floods of perspiration on a hot day."

Early antiperspirants were (and still are) made with aluminum chloride suspended in acid: "The acid solution meant Odorono could irritate sensitive armpit skin and damage clothing. Adding insult to injury, the antiperspirant was also red-colored, so it could also stain clothing—if the acid didn’t eat right through it first. According to company records, customers complained that the product caused burning and inflammation in armpits and that it ruined many a fancy outfit, including one woman’s wedding dress.

"To avoid these problems, Odorono customers were advised to avoid shaving prior to use and to swab the product into armpits before bed, allowing time for the antiperspirant to dry thoroughly."

#PlasticPollution #AluminumPollution #ToxicChemicals #BodyShaming #BodyOdor

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-advertisers-convinced-americans-they-smelled-bad-12552404/

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-05-tons-toxic-chemicals-consumer-products.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-05-tons-toxic-chemicals-consumer-products.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1653395686853861388#m

More than 5,000 tons of #toxicchemicals released from #consumerproducts every year inside Californian homes, workplaces @SilentSpringIns >@EnvSciTech https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c07247 https://phys.org/news/2023-05-tons-toxic-chemicals-consumer-products.html

Whether it’s an acre of greenery or a collection of pots on your balcony or windowsill, having a garden can provide you with your own slice of nature. However, there are several potential sources of toxic chemicals in gardens that you need to be aware of so that you can avoid them.
https://laureljstandley.com/2023/04/19/gardening-part-1-avoiding-toxic-chemicals-in-your-garden/
#gardening #ToxicChemicals #healthyfood

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3939919-east-palestine-isnt-alone-communities-around-the-country-grapple-with-toxic-chemical-exposure/ #EastPalestine isnt alone umore than 428,000 pounds of vinyl chloride was released into the air by 38 industry facilities last year.

The facilities with the largest releases are located in Texas, Kentucky, Louisiana and New Jersey. 
#ToxicChemicals #Environmental