Archive for November, 2007

When my nephew Harrison was a year old, as is required by law in New York State, he was tested for lead and had a lead count of14 (the CDC’s threshold level for lead is 10 micrograms per deciliter). When they learned about Harrison’s lead level, my brother tried to figure out the source of […]

Even though I have been thinking about suspicious chemicals in plastic for a couple of years now, I have never systematically purged my home of all these hormone mimickers (see my October 24th and October 30th posts about the effects of phthalates and bisphenol A on our children’s health). Recently, to make certain I have […]