By the time your baby’s eyes open to see the world for the first time, he or she is already contaminated with up to 300 potentially toxic chemicals. This month we learn from the CDC that many brands of baby formula contain a chemical used in rocket fuel, perchlorate. When mixed with water containing the same chemical, this formula becomes a more potent toxic cocktail for our babies in their first precious months of life!
If there is no other issue that makes you cry like a baby, have a tantrum over this one.
Read the report with things you can do, documentation and a perchlorate timeline; it will make you sick, particularly if you live in California or Texas.
We don’t yet know all the ways these chemicals impact human beings — autism, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer, ADD, ADHD, learning deficits, infertility, or the disease that too often invades my mind – migraine?!? We are poisoning our environment and ourselves.
In California, we’re fortunate to have Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Henry Waxman working to advance the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act. Where do your representatives and senators stand on it? Most have Web sites with phone numbers or easy forms for you to contact them, find out and tell them what you think.
Please read, research, be aware, call or write to your local, state, and federal representatives, vote, join activist organizations, and be heard. We try to save or protect the whales, the dolphins, the wolves, the wilderness… how about trying to protect our babies — and in turn, save the humans?
Hi, I’m an online organizer for EWG. It’s so great to see this here! Thank you for spreading the word so powerfully. We are working hard to make this happen, and if you want to get involved, we can sure use the help.
Also, we’re planning a round-up of Kid-Safe posts on Enviroblog in the near future, so if you want to submit this one, email me or post a link on our FB page: http://bit.ly/19WTxb. Together we can make this happen. I know it.