Are There Dangerous Chemicals in Children’s Clothing?
Clothing made from traditional textiles is laden with chemicals; children’s clothing even more so, since, in addition to synthetic dyes, many children’s clothing items have flame retardant chemicals added to the mix. How can this not be bad for our kids? And these are not merely the worried rantings of a paranoid mother, there is sold research to support my concern. CNN Article on Toxins and Body Burden Testing I recently ran across an excellent, yet entirely scary, CNN press release dating back to 2007 about the high levels of toxic chemicals in children’s bodies revealed through laboratory testing. The piece was about body burden testing, which I’d never heard of. What I read was shocking. The story featured a family who has participated in a study to measure the level of industrial chemicals in their bodies. The results of their biomonitoring tests revealed that the couple’s two children had chemical body burdens 7x that of their parents, and that their 18-month-old was loaded with
