[CPEO-MEF] Breast milk perchlorate

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Press release
Einstein researchers find that a commonly found contaminant may harm 
nursing infants

Karen Gardner
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
December 3, 2007


(BRONX, NY) -- Scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of 
Yeshiva University have shown that perchlorate—an industrial pollutant 
linked to thyroid ailments—is actively concentrated in breast milk. 
Their findings suggest that perchlorate contamination of drinking water 
may pose a greater health risk than previously realized. The study 
appears in the December 3-7 advance online issue of the Proceedings of 
the National Academy of Sciences.

For decades, millions of Americans have been exposed to perchlorate 
through contamination of their local water supplies. The U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency has so far identified 75 perchlorate 
releases in 22 states, primarily California and states in the Southwest. 
Perchlorate is known to interfere with the ability of the thyroid, 
mammary glands and certain other tissues to absorb iodide from the 
bloodstream.

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For the entire press release, go to
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-12/aeco-erf113007.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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