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Mike
Carruthers:
Toxic
chemicals - there is fear, concern and some confusion surrounding
the topic.
Gary Ginsberg:
The exposure to toxic chemicals, if anything, has gone
down over the past fifteen to twenty years; it's a myth that things
have never been worse than now.
Dr. Gary Ginsberg,
Senior Toxicologist for the Connecticut Department of Public
Health and author of the book, What's
Toxic, What's Not?…
Our exposure
historically to pesticides, PCB's, mercury, and dioxins was
much higher thirty years ago - so we've made a lot of progress.
However, there
are a lot of toxic chemicals we should be concerned about.
Like lead in
paint (which is a big risk for children) still, three hundred
thousand children are lead poisoned every year from lead paint.
But then you also have radon that comes in to the ground into
some homes - that's the second leading cause of lung cancer
in our country.
Dr. Ginsberg says radon is the greatest environmental cancer
risk to the general public.
Every home should
have a radon test. Radon is not something that you can predict
community-by-community. We've heard of houses right next to
each other, one house having a lot of radon and the next house
not having any. It's a simple one-time test; it's best if it's
done in the wintertime. And the beautiful thing about it is
that if there is a radon problem, it's totally fixable, it's
not a big expense; then you can breathe a lot easier.
Tomorrow, other
toxins we should and should not be concerned about - I'm Mike
Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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