Toxic Rocket Fuel Found in Milk in Texas

[donsu]

THIS IS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO WOMEN


http://www.ewg.org/issues/perchlorate/20030919/

A toxic component of rocket fuel has been found in supermarket milk at levels exceeding the federal government's currently recommended safe dose for drinking water, according to a peer-reviewed scientific study published today.

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Perchlorate, the explosive main ingredient of solid rocket and missile fuel, can disrupt the thyroid gland's ability to make essential hormones. For fetuses, infants and children, disruptions in thyroid hormone levels can cause lowered IQ, mental retardation, loss of hearing and speech, and motor skill deficits.

Perchlorate, most of it leaking from military bases or defense plants, contaminates more than 500 drinking water supplies in at least 20 states, serving well over 20 million people. Among major perchlorate-polluted sources is the Colorado River, which is used to irrigate 1.4 million acres of cropland in California and Arizona. Earlier this year, a study for the Environmental Working Group, conducted by the same team from Texas Tech, reported that about 1 in 5 samples tested of winter lettuce irrigated by the Colorado had perchlorate levels averaging four times the EPA's draft safety standard. (www.ewg.org/suspectsalads.pdf.)

"These troubling results are the first indication that perchlorate is not only contaminating drinking water and irrigation water, but that livestock can pass it on to humans," said EWG Senior Analyst Renee Sharp. "How much more evidence do we need before the government takes action to protect our water, our food and our selves from this toxic chemical?"
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note this: "livestock can pass it on to humans,"

could we not say that our military is killing us?

[hadrons]

1. Toxic Rocket Fuel Found in Milk in Texas ... deregulation Texas style

[BlueJazz]

2. Well, this is one way to ...

....keep the populace stupid.

[MountainLaurel]

3. Seriously . . .

Between toxins like this and lead paint poisoning, this explains a hell of a lot about learning disabilities and such.

[jus_the_facts]

4. seems as if NO ONE gives much thought anymore to the enviornment......

.....which is THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE WE FACE AS A F'N SPECIES.....yet it's like it's become a mute point these days...:wtf: guess it's just too difficult for anybody to even attempt to address anymore since so many scientist are PAID OFF TO LIE ABOUT IT NOW....makes me beyond disgusted...especially amoung my fellow democrats...who seem to easily overlook this subject lately as unimportant when THIS IS THE MOST DIRE ISSUE WE FACE....BECAUSE IF WE DON'T STOP POLLUTING OUR PLANET THEN WE WON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO DEFEND ANYTHING ELSE WE BELIEVE IN....WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO BREATH...MUCH LESS GROW FOOD OR DRINK WATER.....WHY....WHY.....WHY IS THIS ISSUE NOT BEING ADDRESSED MUCH AT ALL ANYMORE?????!!!!!!:evilfrown:

[CO Liberal]

5. Got Milk?

:nuke:

[ozymandius]

6. Didn't Tom DeLay campaign to allow Perchlorate in everything?

He won his Sugarland seat through campaigning for less government interference in business - especially his insecticide business. Ostensibly, it would seem that DeLay just wants the government to leave this issue alone and let the free market sort it out.

[leftchick]

7. they found this same crap in lettuce too!

There was an article several months ago about the testing done on lettuce from California. About 20% was found to have this same rocket fuel in it. Even the organic brands because is was in the water used to irrigate! Yes, the Military Industrial Complex will kill us all one way or another.... :(

[izzie]

8. I do not think I will read the messages on this. For this reason

You guys will blow this out of the water and I will be spending all afternoon laughting. This looks like a set up for laughts.

[jus_the_facts]

9. indifference and joking about the enviornment.....ISN'T A LAUGHING MATTER

........but what the fuck ever....seems like that's all anybody says about the enviornment lately anyway....what the future will look like on this planet for future generations....if there's much left of it....but nahhhhh......let's by all means make jokes and LAUGH ABOUT IT!!!:puke:

[PurityOfEssence]

11. Okay, so is this the start of a new baby boom?

It could be the Vanguard of a new one... (okay, that's mighty dated)

[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. toxic flame retardant chemicals found in mothers breast milk...

has same effect on developing babies as PCBs....just on CNN...will post link as soon as i find it.
found 2 and the test was of women in Texas too...

http://www.oztoxics.org/ntn/story3.htm

http://hb.lycos.com/header?Z=798819&VID=5102&LHM=1&m_PR=49&m_APPID=0&LHS=2&REF=http%3A//www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Dflame+retardant+chemicals+found+in+breast+milk%26btnG%3DGoogle+Search&SCRNSZ=640x480&BRSRSZ=593x272&TIME=Tue%20Sep%2023%2017%3A51%3A42%20EDT%202003

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several American mothers nursing their infants had high levels of potentially toxic flame retardant chemicals in their breastmilk, a U.S. environmental group said on Tuesday.

While the study by the Environmental Working Group was small and did not show any health effects in the babies, the group said it showed just how widespread the chemicals are.

The chemicals are bromine-based fire retardants and are used in a wide range of products including furniture, computers, television sets, automobiles, copy machines and hair dryers to make them less likely to catch fire. They can build up in the body over years.

[efhmc]

12. This Texan buys her organic milk from Horizon out of California.

Does that make me safe?