Metabolic Detoxification

[HysteryDiagnosis]

http://www.lef.org/LEFCMS/aspx/PrintVersionMagic.aspx?CmsID=118435

Outside of the diet, respiratory exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is a common risk which has been associated with several adverse health effects, including kidney damage, immunological problems, hormonal imbalances, blood disorders, and increased rates of asthma and bronchitis.4

One of the greatest sources of non-dietary toxicant exposure is the air in the home.5 Building materials (such as floor and wall coverings, particle board, adhesives, and paints) can “off-gas” releasing several toxicants that can be detected in humans.6 For example, a toxic benzene derivative commonly used in disinfectants and deodorizers was detected in 98% of adults in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “TEAM” study.7 In another EPA study, three additional toxic solvents were present in 100 percent of human tissue samples tested across the country.8

Newly built or remodeled buildings can have substantial amounts of chemical “off-gassing”, giving rise to what has been called “sick building syndrome.”9 Carpet is an especially big offender, potentially releasing several neurotoxins; in testing of over 400 carpet samples, neurotoxins were present in more than 90 percent of the samples, quantitatively sufficient in some samples to cause death in mice.10 Ironically, shortly after the TEAM report, seventy-one ill employees evacuated the new EPA headquarters in Washington DC complaining claiming health problems, which were eventually attributed to the 27,000 sq. feet of new carpet.11

Carpets also trap environmental toxins; the “Non-Occupational Pesticide Exposure Study” (NOPES) found an average of 12 pesticide residues per carpet sampled, and determined that this route of exposure likely provides infants and toddlers with nearly all of their non-dietary exposure to the notorious pesticides DDT, aldrin, atrazine, and carbaryl.12

[dbonds]

1. Rec'ed to zero. Didn't know there was a pro dirty carpet lobby here.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. You have no business with me so move along mr. bond. n/t

[dbonds]

3. Sorry if recommending your post was an insult to you.

I won't let it happen again. And it isn't Mr.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. I misread your intent, many apologies, I understood you to be unreccing, muh bad. n/t

[KT2000]

5. Carpets=shoe cleaners

When chemicals that need water and sunlight to decompose are tracked into the home and on to carpets, they stay there for a long time because there is no rain and sunlight inside to break it down. Think of every tuft of carpeting as having 360 degrees of surface area to hold contaminants.

At the EPA when the medical director diagnosed the illnesses as being caused by "Sick building syndrome" and the newly placed carpets, he was relieved of his duties.

When babies who crawled on carpets started having seizures, there was a big to do over the neurotoxic chemicals used in carpets. The carpet industry got their hands slapped and put on a strict regimen of "voluntary monitoring." Likewise with particle board used in housing - they were required to put a "formaldehyde notice" on every 10th board.

The employees at EPA were saved by their union. They made sure the testing was done. When this happens to homeowners there are really no standards established for consumers so no one is going to set things straight if a person's (or family's) life has been damaged by toxic exposures. Just the tort attorneys after the damage has been done, which is why industry wants tort reform.

[mahina]

10. Which is why we take our slippers off before we come in the house,

but people on the continent don't for some reason.

[trotsky]

6. Oh look, LEF just so happens to sell the supplements they scared you into thinking you need!

How nice of them!

[laconicsax]

7. It just makes me want to post advertising copy! n/t

[HuckleB]

8. Isn't it funny how some rules get ignored at DU?

:banghead:

[laconicsax]

9. Not ignored, interpreted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=437x3625

[HuckleB]

11. Seems to me that they're avoiding conflict, instead of standing up for science and, well, ...

... that is very disheartening.

[laconicsax]

12. I'm sure it'll be solved by DU3.

:rofl: