Brest milk contamiated !! - WHAT!! ( not all just a Orogen region)
luvbug00 wrote: very interesting..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050826/ap_on_...xic_breast_milk
CantWait replied: Pretty nasty stuff 
huggybugboy replied: wow, what are the affects on the little ones, do you know?
Mom2Boyz replied: That is awful!!
mckayleesmom replied: I can't get the page to load...can someone give me the details please please 
luvbug00 replied: PORTLAND, Ore. - The breast milk of Oregon women is contaminated with a high level of toxic flame retardants known as PBDEs, researchers say.
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A new analysis by the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Seattle-based research group Northwest Environment Watch compared the PBDE levels in the breast milk of 40 Pacific Northwest mothers with the levels of another toxin and chemical cousin, PCB.
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, are used as a flame retardant while polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, are a class of chemicals used in insulating fluids for electrical equipment before they were banned in the late 1970s after studies indicated they cause cancer.
The analysis of breast milk samples showed that 30 percent of the mothers tested in the Northwest study had higher levels of PBDEs than PCBs.
The analysis, released Thursday at the "Dioxin 2005" international conference in Toronto, suggests that PBDE contamination may be surpassing the level of PCB contamination in humans and the environment.
"The comparison with PCBs suggests that toxic flame retardants have emerged as a major environmental health concern," said Clark Williams-Derry, research director for Northwest Environment Watch.
The breast milk samples from Northwest women were analyzed in the California EPA's Hazardous Materials Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif. It is one of several studies under way on breast milk contamination.
Some of the data from the study was originally released by Northwest Environment Watch in 2004, but the comparison of contamination levels was just completed, researchers said.
The 40 mothers in the Northwest study are from Oregon, British Columbia, Montana and Washington state.
Overall, they had levels of PBDEs 20 to 40 times higher than levels found in women from Europe and Japan.
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http://www.northwestwatch.org/toxics/NEW_H..._pbdes_pcbs.pdf
the link for health concerns
Insanemomof3 replied: OH NO! I nursed BOTH my boys and I am in Oregon! I have lived here pretty much all my life. 
~Roo'sMama~ replied:
It sounds to me like the test was done in your area but doesn't neccesarily mean that the rest of the US is free of it - they only compared with women in Europe and Japan. It's kinda scary... I'm careful of what I put in my body while I'm pg and breastfeeding but something in my home might be causing problems I don't even know about.  I wouldn't freak out about it though - I'm not going to stop BF because of one study.
stanleygirl replied: Isn't it a little scary that most infant clothes are also treated with this stuff!? I am hoping this chemical will not be used anymore...but does anyone know if there is a way to tell if somehting you are purchasing has been treated with it?
Debbie replied: Yikes! Thats scary stuff!
party-of-six replied: Rocket fuel has also been found in breast milk in some women....nothing is safe anymore.
A&A'smommy replied: I think some of those "tests" is a bunch of bull!!! And even if its not then why aren't kids getting sick? Denise I'm sure that your boys are fine.. probably better than fine!!
luvbug00 replied: ehh I just saw it and thought i will post just in case... 
A&A'smommy replied:
Well I did a little research on some of the big name websites Kellymom and such and it seems that some of it is true BUT the rocket fuel thing its just the type of salt that they use is the same and I couldn't find anything on this so I don't know maybe its just me hoping!!
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