Unborn babies polluted with industrial chemicals.

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See "A Little Rocket Fuel With Your Salad?" November/December 2003, p. 12, and Green Guidance: "Plastic Containers for Water and Food," March/April 2004, p. 8

The Environmental Working Group, testing umbilical cord blood collected by the American Red Cross, has discovered a chemical soup: an average of 287 different contaminants per sample. The chemicals included byproducts of burning coal, gasoline, and garbage, as well as flame retardants and pesticides. Most of the 287 compounds detected...