Statistics for your viewing:
According to the National Academy of Sciences, 37 million Americans suffer from environmental illness. Its estimate further holds that as high as 15% of Americans can no longer live comfortably in this post-industrial world and by this it is meant in their own homes. These awful statistics are also supported by a WHO strategy meeting on Air Quality and Health held in Geneva in September 2000 where it stated, “As many as one billion people, mostly women and children, are regularly exposed to levels of indoor air pollution exceeding WHO guidelines by up to 100 times.”
From: New York, Dec. 23, 2003
JOEL SHUFRO, executive director, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCHOSH). For each worker killed on the job as a result of traumatic injury, 10 workers die of occupational diseases. An estimated 66,000 workers die each year from occupational disease and their employers are never prosecuted. Standards exist for only 500 of the some 70,000 chemicals used in the workplace, and those standards are woefully out of date and inadequate.
A National Cancer Institute study found that children whose parents used store-bought home and garden pesticides are up to seven times more likely to develop childhood leukemia. Studies have also linked pesticide exposure to breast and prostate cancer, Parkinson’s disease and immune system disorders.
Accordingly to David Pimentel, PhD, Cornell University entomologist, less then one hundredth of one percent of sprayed pesticides reach their intended target. Pesticides cause serious health problems including deaths, toxicity, neurological effects, reduced immune responses, learning disabilities, and others (Pimentel, 2004). Each year worldwide there are 26 million pesticide poisonings with 220,000 deaths (Richter, 2002). In the U.S., NCFH (2004) reports there are 300,000 nonfatal pesticide poisonings.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC COSTS OF THE APPLICATION OF PESTICIDES PRIMARILY IN THE UNITED STATES DAVID PIMENTEL College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-0901 Tel:(607) 255-2212; Fax: (607) 255-0930; email: dp18@cornell.edu Abstract: An obvious need for an updated and comprehensive study prompted this investigation of the complex of environmental costs resulting from the nation's dependence on pesticides. Included in this assessment of an estimated $10 billion in environmental and societal damages are analyses of: pesticide impacts on public health; livestock and livestock product losses; increased control expenses resulting from pesticide-related destruction of natural enemies and from the development of pesticide resistance in pests; crop pollination problems and honeybee losses; crop and crop product losses; bird, fish, and other wildlife losses; and governmental expenditures to reduce the environmental and social costs of the recommended application of pesticides. The major economic and environmental losses due to the application of pesticides in the U.S. were: public health, $1.1 billion per year, pesticide resistance in pests; $1.5 billion; crop losses caused by pesticides, $1.4 billion; bird losses due to pesticides, $2.2 billion; and groundwater contamination, $2.0 billion.
Key words: agriculture, costs, crops, environment, livestock, natural resources, pesticide, pesticide resistance, public health.
"Twenty-six scientists from 10 countries evaluated the available evidence on the carcinogenicity of formaldehyde, a widely used chemical", reports Dr Peter Boyle, Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization. The working group, convened by the IARC Monographs Programme, concluded that formaldehyde is carcinogenic to humans. Previous evaluations, based on the smaller number of studies available at that time, had concluded that formaldehyde was probably carcinogenic to humans, but new information from studies of persons exposed to formaldehyde has increased the overall weight of the evidence. http://www.iarc.fr/pageroot/PRELEASES/pr153a.html.
The Danish Environmental Agency has now identified adverse environmental effects or health hazards in 20,000 chemical substances previously not known to be dangerous. After many years of intensive studies the Danish Environmental Agency is soon to publish a list of 20,000 chemical substances with undesired effects on environment or health. So far EU has only listed some 5,000 substances as dangerous.
http://www.fbr.dk/chemaware/newslet/issue11/article1.html,
20,000 chemicals deemed dangerous, Issue # 11, October 23rd 2000
Toluene can effect you when breathed in and by passing through your skin, may cause mutations, may damage the developing fetus. Handle with extreme caution. Exposure can irritate the skin nose, throat, and eyes. Higher levels can cause you to feel dizzy, lightheaded, and to pass out. Death can occur. Repeated exposures can damage bone marrow, causing low blood cell count. It can also damage the liver and kidneys, can cause slowed reflexes, trouble concentrating, and headaches."
New Jersey Department of Health, Hazardous Substance Fact Sheet Right to Know Program. CN 368, Trenton, N.J., 08625-0368.
U.S. scientist Samuel Epstein, author of several books on cancer, say 80 to 90 per cent of human cancer is determined environmentally.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reports that "the results of individual studies suggest that formaldehyde exposure may be associated with increased risk of lung cancer, brain cancer, and leukemia."
"The evidence is strong that formaldehyde is a carcinogen. It is a mutagen; namely it is capable of attacking the genetic materia of cells, and producing permanent genetic damage. 95% of chemicals that show mutagenic activity are carcinogenic. That formaldehyde is a demonstrated carcinogen in animals is now undisputed.
From Dental Amalgam Mercury Syndrome “DAMS” Scientifically Proven Facts about Mercury & Dental.
Dental Amalgam contains about 50% mercury.
Mercury has been scientifically demonstrated to be more toxic than lead, cadmium, or even arsenic.
Mercury vapor is absorbed at a rate of 80% through the lungs into the arterial blood. (31, 55)
Mercury is cytotoxic -- i.e. it kills cells.
There is NO harmless level of mercury vapor exposure. (63)
Mercury vapor is absorbed directly into the brain. (34, 55a)
Mercury rapidly depletes the immune system. (27,34,35,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,60)
Mercury will induce a number of Auto Immune Diseases. (27,34,35,42,43,44,60)
Mercury from amalgam is stored principally in the kidneys, liver and brain. (1,20,31)
A few Diagnostic codes for your convenience:
506 Respiratory Conditions Due To Chemical Fumes And Vapors:
506.1 Acute Pulmonary Edema Due To Fumes And Vapors Chemical pulmonary edema (acute)
506.2 Upper Respiratory Inflammation Due To Fumes And Vapors
506.3 Other Acute And Subacute Respiratory Conditions Due To Fumes And Vapors
506.4 Chronic Respiratory Conditions Due To Fumes And Vapors: {Emphysema (diffuse) (chronic)} {Obliterative
bronchiolitis (chronic) (subacute)} {Pulmonary fibrosis (chronic)} due to inhalation of chemical fumes and vapors
975 Poisoning By Agents Primarily Acting On The Smooth & Skeletal Muscles & Respiratory System Injury & Poisoning
980-989 Toxic Effects of Substances Chiefly Nonmedicinal as to Source
987.9 Toxic Effect Of Unspecified Gas, Fume, Or Vapor
989.3 Toxic Effect Of Organophosphate And Carbamate Carbaryl; Dichlorvos; Malathion; Parathion; Phorate; Phosdrin
989.4 Toxic Effect Of Other Pesticides, NEC Mixtures of insecticides
989.6 Toxic Effect Of Soaps And Detergents
995.66 Anaphylactic Shock Due To Food Additives
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