sabotaging the list, let's return to hormone disrupting chemicals like nonylphenols, BpA, PVC, chlorinated pesticides

["Susan K. Snow" <sksnow@1stnet.com>]

Mark Robinowitz wrote:

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> wonder if our friends at the chlorine industry are sabotaging the list again?

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I don't wonder, I strongly suspect.  They have been rather quiet lately.
 By sabotaging the list, they have us discussing other things rather than 
items like nonylphenols, bisphenol-A, dioxins, PCBs and chlorinated 
pesticides that may mimic/block or generally disrupt hormones in the body of 
the developing embryo and fetus.

Nonylphenols are surfacants that make pesticides [such as insecticides,
herbicides, fungicides] adhere to leaf, for example, and make the product 
work better.  In fact, agricultural scientists have found nonylphenols were 
the key, despite being considered an inactive/inert ingredient.  Pesticides 
without nonylphenols just don't work as well.
 
I understand that nonylphenols are not chlorinated, but may be used in 
chlorinated pesticides, plastics, liquid soaps, shampoos, mouth wash, and 
other products.  Are they in toothpastes?

Many scientific findings have come about by accident.  Tufts scientists  
accidentally discovered that nonylphenols in modified polystyrene leach from 
the product and produce a highly estrogenic response in human breast tissue 
cultures...that is, cause the proliferation of breast cells--a sign of breast 
cancer.  They also feminize male fish.  One study found eggs inside the 
testes of male fish that lived in waters tainted with nonylphenols.

Nonylphenols are building up in the tissues of life, in landfills and surface 
impoundments.  What happens when they are burned?  What are the
synergistic effects?

Scientists have stated that when PCBs (a secret ingredient in pesticides 
according to the Freedom of Information law); plastics, asphalt, printing 
ink, and numerous other processes) are burned, they become dibenzo furans, 
the toxic cousin of dioxins.  I understand that dioxins can be destroyed, but 
studies from Minnesota have identified them in the cool parts of incinerator 
stacks, and of course in the ash, as pollution controls improve.  Either way, 
the food chain, our bodies, and the youngest being is most damaged by these 
chemicals due to transgenerational effects.

Our children and grandchildren should have the right to be born free from
contamination, just as my parents were at the turn of the century.
Spending money on education does little good if the thyroid gland of the
parents are damaged by dioxin-like chemicals released from the
manufacture and combustion of mostly PVC and chlorinated products.

It's too bad more people don't open their eyes and read OUR STOLEN FUTURE
by scientists Theo Colborn and John Peterson Myers.  Perhaps, if they
did, they too would ask hard questions and demand more government funding
for independent studies.

Also, the 104th Congress says that the American people should have the 
right to know about President Clinton.  However, they wanted to eliminate our 
right to know about the toxic chemicals released by their corporate 
contributors into our communities and neighborhoods.  We need the right to 
know what potential hormone disrupting chemicals are packaging and growing 
our food, make up consumer products, in order that we can take responsibility 
and protect our families from potential danger.  All should be discussed on 
the dioxin list, with or without input from vested interests...if 
'Christian-values' really matter.

Susan