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Environmental exposure.(POLICY & PRACTICE)(Brief article)
An advocacy organization is calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to begin testing the umbilical cord blood of newborns, citing the results of its own tests of 10 cord blood samples. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) commissioned tests of 10 cord blood samples and found that the babies averaged 200 contaminants in their blood. The group found the presence of mercury, fire retardants, pesticides, and the Teflon chemical perfluorooctanoic acid. "Chemical exposures during childhood can be far more harmful ...
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