[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: California study of newborn thyroid hormones

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State study: Low levels of perchlorate affect infants


By DAVID DANELSKI
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
December 10, 2010

A new analysis by state scientists found that low levels of a rocket 
fuel chemical common in Inland drinking water supplies appear to be more 
harmful to newborn babies than previously believed, prompting calls for 
a tougher limit for tap water.

Scientists with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment 
examined records of blood samples drawn from the heels of 497,458 
newborns in 1998 as part of a California disease-screening program.

The researchers found that the babies born in areas where tap water was 
contaminated with perchlorate -- including babies in Riverside and San 
Bernardino -- had a 50 percent chance of having a poorly performing 
thyroid gland, said Dr. Craig Steinmaus, lead author of the study 
published in this month's Journal of Occupational and Environmental 
Medicine.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_perchlorate11.1edf645.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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