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> http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/newsrelease.php

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> A new study confirms that chemical exposure begins in the womb, as

> hundreds of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides are pumped

> back and forth from mother to baby through umbilical cord blood.

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> Laboratory tests of 10 American Red Cross cord blood samples found an

> average of 200 contaminants. The pollutants included mercury, fire

> retardants, pesticides and the Teflon chemical PFOA. In total, the

> babies'

> blood had 287 chemicals, including 209 never before detected in cord

> blood.

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> The Pollution in Newborns.

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> Published by Environmental Working Group.

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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 14, 2005

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> CONTACT: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982

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> Study Finds Industrial Pollution

> Begins in the Womb

> Hundreds of Toxic Chemicals Measured

> in Newborn Babies

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> WASHINGTON - Not long ago, scientists believed that babies in the womb

> were largely protected from most toxic chemicals. A new study helps

> confirm an opposite view: that chemical exposure begins in the

> womb, as

> hundreds of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides are pumped

> back and forth from mother to baby through umbilical cord blood.

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> Environmental Working Group (EWG) commissioned laboratory tests of 10

> American Red Cross cord blood samples for the most extensive array of

> industrial chemicals, pesticides and other pollutants ever studied.

> The

> group found that the babies averaged 200 contaminants in their

> blood. The

> pollutants included mercury, fire retardants, pesticides and the

> Teflon

> chemical PFOA. In total, the babies' blood had 287 chemicals,

> including

> 209 never before detected in cord blood.

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> The blood samples came from babies born in U.S. hospitals in August

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> September of 2004. The study, called Body Burden: The Pollution in

> Newborns, tested each sample of umbilical cord blood for an

> unprecedented

> 413 industrial and consumer product chemicals. The study

> (www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/) is part of an important new science

> that measures toxins in people - the human body burden.

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> " For years scientists have studied pollution in the air, water,

> land and

> in our food. Recently they've investigated its health impacts on

> adults.

> Now we find this pollution is reaching babies during vital stages of

> development, " said EWG Vice President for Research Jane Houlihan.

> " These

> findings raise questions about the gaps in our federal safety net.

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> of rubber-stamping almost every new chemical that industry invents,

> we've

> got to strengthen and modernize the laws that are supposed to protect

> Americans from pollutants. "

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> U.S. industries manufacture and import approximately 75,000 chemicals,

> 3,000 of them at over a million pounds per year. Yet health

> officials do

> not know how many of these chemicals pollute fetal blood and what the

> health consequences of in utero exposures might be. Many of these

> chemicals require specialized techniques to detect. Chemical

> manufacturers

> are not required to make available to the public or government health

> officials methods to detect their chemicals in humans, and most do not

> volunteer them.

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> EWG's Houlihan said that had her group been able to test for more

> chemicals, it would almost certainly have detected them.

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> FULL REPORT and following topics are linked on url:

> http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/newsrelease.php

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> 1: Executive summary

> 2: Babies are vulnerable to chemical harm

> 3: Human health problems on the rise

> 4: Recommendations

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> Detailed findings

> Methodology

> Questions and Answers

> References

> News Release

> News Advisory

> About This Report

> Related News Coverage

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> The Environmental Working Group and Environmental Working Group Action

> Fund are nonprofits that use the power of information to protect

> public

> health and the environment.

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> Commonweal is a nonprofit health and environmental research

> institute in

> Bolinas, California, whose programs contribute to human and ecosystem

> health - to a safer world for people and for all life.

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