Exposure to Chemicals May Harm Young Brains
(London, Reuters Health, 11/7/06)

Philippe Grandjean of Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and the University of Southern Denmark, warns that few industrial chemicals are controlled with the goal of protecting children, despite the reality that many of them may impair the developing brain. He contends that this under-regulation puts millions of fetuses and babies at risk for adverse effects, which include learning and developmental disorders. Granjean and colleagues called for an expansion of the regulation of neurotoxins to encompass, not just lead and mercury, but the hundreds of other chemicals that have been shown to be toxic to the human brain.