Recently New York Times had a article on Food coloring and links to children hyperactivity. The public is unaware of aluminum lakes make up many colorants in food, medicine(e.g.vaccines), and cosmetics. Since all forms of alums(aluminum family) have no human benefit and is linked to 31 diseases why are we not looking at reducing aluminum and setting limits as we have for lead and other metals.

Elemental mercury is put to a variety of magico-religious uses based on the belief that it attract good and repels evil. One major such use involves sprinkling mercury on floors of homes. These practices were first described in Nature in 1990, and have been documented in Environmental Health Perspectives by Riley et al in 2000, and Garetano et al in 2006. 'Google' <mercury Santeria> for more information. Some biomarker research on this issue has been inconclusive, and the environmental measurements of indoor air mercury vapor levels have been incomplete and hence inconclusive. In 1999 the ATSDR stated there was "an urgent need to obtain information on the levels of exposure from these practices," by measuring indoor air mercury vapor levels in heavily Caribbean and Latino communities. To date this has not been done. However two publishable index cases appear to be in the offing, one initiated by clinical findings, and the other by environmental investigation. Twenty years after the initial publication of this phenomenon, it is hardly a "visionary idea" to suggest serious clinical, environmental and basic toxicological investigation of this latent (but real) environmental health threat. Mercury Poisoning Project www.mercurypoisoningproject.org

More exposure of people to a wide variety of pesticides/ chemicals in developing countries compared to developed World. Due to the diverse numbers of pesticides/ chemicals which are imported/ produced in developing countries and used without regulations and enforcement, now people in these countries are more exposed to these chemicals as compared to people in developed World. Many factors helped for this higher exposure, among them less knowledge and information about these dangerous compounds. The situation in these countries is quiet different than developed nations. In many of these developing countries there are no NGOs and community workers to make the people aware about their exposure to pesticides/ chemicals and consequences. Now in developed nations there are so many NGOs and local community workers which stand against these dangerous compounds and do not let the corporations follow only their profits. They fight for the right of people and especially for children and other more vulnerable groups. In developing countries now people and in particular children are open exposed to these wide range of pesticides/ chemicals not only through consumption of food but also through all their daily life and there are no alerting NGOs and agencies to protect them. During the past decade every year there were more than 25 million acute poisoning with only pesticides in agricultural workers of developing countries. The problem shows itself more clear when we realize that more pesticides are used in developed nations with too much lower numbers of acute poisonings. Now in many Asian countries there is daily increase of exposure to polluted rice (different heavy metals) and to polluted fish (Hg, PCBs and other pollutants) and people have no other option because of hunger and ever increasing population. According to latest scientific documentations in pregnant mothers most of these dangerous compounds pass through placenta to the baby and are detected in the body of many newborn babies and female workers in rural areas are more exposed.

Although the focus of this exercise seems to be toxic and chemical exposures,I think that there is overwhelming evidence that man made electromagnetic field exposures are a major cause of human morbidity and mortality. See the publications on my website: www.sammilham.com and read my book,Dirty Electricity for details.

Although the focus of this exercise seems to be toxic and chemical exposures,I think that there is overwhelming evidence that man made electromagnetic field exposures are a major cause of human morbidity and mortality. See the publications on my website: www.sammilham.com and read my book,Dirty Electricity for details.