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"Congress passed the Food Quality Protection Act in 1996, which required the environmental protection Agency to start the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program to test chemicals and environmental contaminants for their potential to disrupt the hormonal systems of wildlife and humans. Since that time, an increasing number of hormone disrupters have been shown to cause abnormal hormonal effects in many species of wildlife at very low levels and so been recognized as environmental pollutants." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"In 2006, the environmental protection Agency announced that it would try to phase out the use of AZM by 2010. Others remain at large. Dieldrin is such a persistent pesticide that some scientists predict it will still exist in the environment when humans are extinct. Methyl bromide causes respiratory illnesses, convulsions and acute mania, alongside intensely depleting ozone levels, yet U.S. agribusiness forces have managed repeatedly to delay its banning, citing emergency "critical uses" stipulations in the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"To see how true this is, go to the environmental protection Agency's EnviroMapper yourself and plug in your own zip code. You can search any reported spots in your neighborhood that discharge toxins into the air or water, as well as hazardous waste and Superfund sites, though you may not be thrilled with what you find. Just take a peek at one small community (zip code 37055) along Eno Road in Dickson County, Tennessee. The largely African-American community that lives on Eno Road is surrounded by garbage dumps, landfills, and three toxic waste sites." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "The majority of soil samples showed lead levels ranging from 19,900 to 46,700 parts per million—far exceeding the environmental protection Agency's safety level of 400 parts per million in areas where children play, or 1,200 parts per million in other areas of a property. The site at 858 East Ferry exceeded New York State's criteria for a hazardous waste site nearly forty times over." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "In 2005, the environmental protection Agency (EPA) determined that even low-level exposure to PFOA poses "a potential risk of developmental and other adverse effects" on human health. In one recent and provocative paper from Stockholm University's Unit for Biochemical Toxicology, investigators were unable to find a dose that didn't alter the function of our immune cells at each major step that the immune system takes in mounting a defense to protect us against foreign antigens." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The children performed as though they were a few months behind for their age. An environmental protection Agency report estimated that 85,000 US women of childbearing age have excessive exposures to mercury. The mercury in fish comes 60 percent from burning coal and oil, and 36 percent from waste incineration. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) said it would cost up to $10 billion to fit power plant smoke stacks with filters to capture mercury, and that "it's just not worth it." Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Congress, federal regulatory agencies (particularly the Food and Drug Administration [FDA], environmental protection Agency [EPA], and Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA]), and even more importantly, the public, with well-documented scientific information on how to avoid causes of cancer, other than pointing to lifestyle faults. That information exists, but remains buried in government and industry files and in scientific literature that is relatively inaccessible to the general public." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Most toxicity experts agree that the main source of human contamination comes from eating fish from waters in which the PCB levels are high, which today can be almost anywhere. The environmental protection Agency estimates that fish can accumulate up to nine million times the level of PCBs in the water in which they live. PCBs have been found in fish from the deepest and most remote parts of the world's oceans. Fish and shellfish are natural accumulators of toxins, because they live and are flushed by the water in which they dwell." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Environmental Protection Agency's "safe dose" ?resulted in sexual abnormalities in the rodents' offspring (33,34). The offspring also had an increased number of "terminal end buds" in breast tissue, which are associated with high risk of breast cancer. An American Plastics Council spokesman publicly claimed that the human relevance of these findings is only "hypothetical." BPA has also been found in human blood and placental and fetal tissues, and incriminated as a predisposing factor or cause of human prostate cancer (35 )." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Diabetogenic contributing factors on a planetary level include living in a degraded environment in which the air, earth, and water are, according to the environmental protection Agency, filled with 70,000 different toxic chemicals, heavy metals, agrochemicals, and other toxic substances?5,000 of which are potentially hazardous to our health. The Environmental Defense Council reports that more than four billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released into the environment each year, including seventy-two million pounds of known carcinogens." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Originally, Congress passed the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) in 1976 as a means of giving the environmental protection Agency (EPA) a way to track industrial chemicals produced within or imported into the United States, and to be a means for the federal government to require comprehensive health and safety testing for all new and existing chemicals. But now the TSCA is one of the weakest environmental laws in the United States. The Chemical Manufacturers Association has waged a fierce battle against this act, mainly because of the safety testing requirements." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "U.S. environmental protection Agency Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20460 www.epa.gov Natural Resources Defense Council 40 West 20th St. New York, NY 10011 Phone:212-727-2700 Fax:212-727-1773 www.nrdc.org National Institutes of Health (NIH) 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Maryland 20892 www.nih.gov Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development 2, rue Andre Pascal F-75775 Paris, Cedex 16, France Main switchboard, tel.: +33-1.45.24.82.00 Fax: +33-1.45.24.85.00 www.oecd.org Pesticide Action Network North America 49 Powell St." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), enacted by Congress in 1976, gives the United States environmental protection Agency (EPA) "broad authority to identify and control substances that may pose a threat to human health or the environment." And even with such standards in place there are loopholes. For example, certain chemicals already in commerce prior to and even after the enactment of TSCA do not require testing, regardless of whether or not they may cause harm." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Today, the environmental protection Agency has shown that sauna therapy increases excretion of heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium, and fat-soluble chemicals—PCBs, PBBs, and HCBs). It seems science has finally caught up with these historical practices for maintaining health. The process of liberating fat-stored toxins through sweating must be done carefully and sometimes under a doctor's supervision to prevent complications. Follow these guidelines for safe detoxification. Saunas or Steam Baths • :?Find a health club or gym near you that has a sauna or steam room. • ?" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"All pesticides must be registered with the environmental protection Agency, but, as the Environmental Working Group warns, "Because the toxic effects of pesticides are worrisome, not well understood, or in some cases completely unstudied, shoppers are wise to minimize exposure to pesticides whenever possible." Ninety percent of new compounds are granted restriction-free approval. National Geographic reports that "only a quarter of the 82,000 chemicals in use in the U.S. have ever been tested for toxicity" There's no transparency with synthetic inputs: they're never listed as ingredients." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The environmental protection Agency's Poison Control Center considers colloidal silver to be harmless and does not list toxicity levels in its rating for colloidal silver.14 Colloidal silver can be used topically to combat or prevent infections on conditions such as cuts, wounds, burns, rashes, sunburn, and insect bites. It can also be used to sterilize drinking water,15 as well as taken orally to combat low-grade infections." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Currently, federal regulatory jurisdiction requires the environmental protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to monitor indoor air quality and levels of toxic ingredients in both hair and nail salons. But the OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit guidelines were created in the 1960s for industrial workplaces, not the salon environment. Moreover, these outdated regulations fail to take into account the long-term effects of chronic exposure in salons, nor do they address the effects of exposure to multiple toxic chemicals." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"This is a synthetic antibacterial ingredient that has been compared to Agent Orange. The environmental protection Agency registers it as a pesticide, highly toxic to any living organism. It is also classified as a chloro-phenol. In other words, it is in a cancer-causing chemical class.18 Triclosan disrupts hormones, can affect sexual function and fertility, and may foster birth defects.19 It is widely used in antibacterial cleansers, toothpaste, and household products. A number of studies have found that washing with regular soap and warm water is just as effective at killing germs." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Initially, the environmental protection Agency under President Carter defined the term so that it applied to each source of emissions within any given factory. But under the Reagan administration, the EPA issued a more flexible rule that considered the plant as a whole to be the "source." Though the Court found it impossible to discern a legislative intent with regard to this issue, it upheld the EPA's decision, holding that when a statute is silent on a particular issue, Congress can be understood to have delegated the power to make the law to the agency." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"In its 2006 environmental health report, the environmental protection Agency (EPA) found that "avoidable environmental exposures" are responsible for as much as 24 percent of all global diseases and more than 33 percent of diseases in children under the age of five." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Pending review, the environmental protection Agency is now advising consumers to stop using Teflon products. Is Cooked Food Addictive? We know that fermenting food sugars and starches into alcohol makes them addictive for many people. Would heating food do the same thing? Raw fooders are convinced that cooked food is addictive. They base this conviction on the empirical (observational) evidence of both their own and others' subjective experiences. Raw fooders very rarely become addicted to a favorite raw food." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "The US environmental protection Agency (EPA) considers acrylamides so dangerous that it has fixed the safe level for human consumption of them at nearly zero, allowing for very little in public water systems. Yet the amounts found in an ordinary bag of potato chips are 500 times the amounts allowed in a single glass of water by the World Health Organization. Briefly, there was even a law in force in California requiring potato chip manufacturers to put cancer warnings on their packages! Most did not comply with the law." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Environmental Protection Agency didn't consider safe for oral consumption by adults. The American Academy of Pediatrics' Green Book found that "very high exposures to thimerosal-containing products have resulted in toxicity, including acrodynia [or childhood mercury poisoning], chronic mercury toxicity, renal failure, and neuropathy." When administered in a vaccine, thimerosal goes right into the bloodstream and passes through the blood-brain barrier. Once there, thimerosal—like other heavy metals—is very hard to get rid of, especially in children." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"It is worthwhile noting," say the study's authors, that the lower dose of the organochlorine pesticide methoxychlor that mice were exposed to was "4-fold lower" than the level set by the environmental protection Agency as acceptable. This suggests, say the authors, that the commonly used pesticide methoxychlor might stimulate autoimmunity at a much lower dose than doses necessary to cause other adverse health effects, and is "therefore of particular interest for risk assessment." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"As for chlorine, the environmental protection Agency says that most human exposure to chlorine actually occurs during its industrial use, not through laundry bleach or swimming pool chemicals, but the fact is that even at low levels, chlorine causes environmental and bodily harm. It may take years before we fully comprehend the health consequences of the 23 billion pounds of the stuff that are produced in this country every year. Here's what we do know: exposure to chlorine affects the immune system, blood, heart, and respiratory system of animals." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Pharmaceutical chemicals are not regulated by the environmental protection Agency, so there is no enforced limit of pharmaceuticals in the drinking water. In fact, in the United States, there is no government agency that is even testing the level of pharmaceuticals in public drinking water on a regular basis. So it is possible, in fact likely, that these levels will continue to rise in the years ahead without being detected or reported to the public at all. I often think about the environmental impact of our culture's massive consumption levels of prescription drugs." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Even just the three vaccinations given to two-month-old infants contained 99 times more mercury than the environmental protection Agency regards as safe. The amount of mercury given to newborns on their first day of life was 36 times too much. In addition, the viral material in the vaccinations can be toxic by itself, when immunizations are given in excess, or over too short of a time period, or to a child with an already compromised immune system." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"One cup of coffee contains 120 mg of caffeine; one cup of black tea contains 60 mg; one cup of decaffeinated contains about 2 mg of caffeine. The environmental protection Agency estimates that 90 percent of human dioxin exposure is through food, primarily meat and dairy products.65 Egg yolks, meat, and poultry cause the lipid Dietary Recommendations • Eat a high-fiber diet. • Eat a high-protein vegetarian diet. • Increase intake of vegetables, nuts, and seeds. • Use turmeric, ginger, milk thistle, and flaxseeds. • Omit or decrease alcohol, dairy, red meat, sugar, and caffeine." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Food and Drug Administration and the environmental protection Agency advise that pregnant and nursing mothers and young children avoid certain types of fish and shellfish and limit others. In part, this may be due to the methylmercury content in fish such as albacore tuna, shark, sword-fish, king mackerel, and tilefish. Methylmercury is a known neurotoxin. no / Supplementing with fish oils should be done with purified fish oil supplements, which can reduce or practically eliminate exposure to mercury, PCBs, dioxins, and pesticides." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The amount given on the day of birth alone was 36 times higher than the safety threshold recommended by the environmental protection Agency. The amount given to two-month-old infants was 99 times higher than the standard EPA recommendations. Even in 1991, at the beginning of the era of the increased dosage of thimerosal, many industry leaders were worried about the effects that this amount of mercury might have upon children's health. A memo from a leading executive at a drug company that was dispensing thimerosal warned that, "The mercury dose appears rather large." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

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