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    The Washington Post Health and Science

    Environmental toxins are seen as posing risks during pregnancy​

    By Rachel Cernansky

    Health and Science Reporter, The Washington Post

     

    Leading up to and during pregnancy, women are told to avoid alcohol and cigarettes, to make sure they get enough folate and omega-3 fatty acids, and to get adequate sleep and exercise. Most are told little or nothing about reducing their exposure to chemicals despite evidence suggesting that ingredients in plastics, vehicle exhaust and cosmetics additives can have profound impacts on babies’ health.
     
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    Major Medical Groups Increasingly Warning Of Toxic Chemical Risks To Unborn Babies

    Doctors urged to address environmental exposures, especially with expectant parents

    Lynne Peeples
    Environment and Public Health Reporter, The Huffington Post
     
    During her five-and-a-half-year battle with infertility, Julieta Pisani McCarthy bought organic foods and chose personal care products free of synthetic ingredients such as parabens and phthalates. And when she finally did become pregnant with her first son, Nicolas, she continued her diligence, including ridding her home of any furniture foam that might contain chemical flame retardants.

     

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    International Ob-Gyns Group Urges Greater efforts to Prevent Toxic Chemical Exposure

    Reproductive Health Professionals Say Links Between Prenatal Exposure to Chemicals and Poor Health Outcomes are Increasingly Evident

    Dramatic increases in exposure to toxic chemicals in the last four decades are threatening human reproduction and health, according to the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO), the first global reproductive health organization to take a stand on human exposure to toxic chemicals. The opinion was written by obstetrician-gynecologists and scientists from the major global, US, UK and Canadian reproductive health professional societies, the World Health Organization and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
     
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    Toxic Environmental Agents:

    Committee Opinion

    ACOG American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

    Reducing exposure to toxic environmental agents is a critical area of intervention for obstetricians, gynecologists, and other reproductive health care professionals. Patient exposure to toxic environmental chemicals and other stressors is ubiquitous, and preconception and prenatal exposure to toxic environmental agents can have a profound and lasting effect on reproductive health across the life course....The evidence that links exposure to toxic environmental agents and adverse reproductive and developmental health outcomes is sufficiently robust, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine join leading scientists and other clinical practitioners in calling for timely action to identify and reduce exposure to toxic environmental agents while addressing the consequences of such exposure.

     

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    Modernizing Prenatal Care for Healthy, Toxic Free Babies

    Commonweal News

    March 3, 2021
    by Alexandra Destler, Director, SafetyNEST Science
     
    My journey to SafetyNEST Science started many years ago. The first “seed” planted on my path was when I was in graduate school, working on a final paper focused on understanding the incentives and deterrents to “greening the chemical industry” for a class at Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. I stumbled upon the alarming statistic that more than 85,000 chemicals surround us daily, in everything from our mattresses to frying pans and shampoo bottles. Hundreds of new chemicals are introduced into consumer products every year. And here’s the catch: The EPA has only tested +/- 200 for health and safety. Seriously?!
     
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