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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="#000099" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2014/aug/germ-killing-chemicals">http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2014/aug/germ-killing-chemicals</a></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="5" color="#000099" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-weight:bold">Germ-killing chemicals common in pregnant women, newborns<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">August 10, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<a href="http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/archives.jsp?sm=o1%3B2fl13%3Bpublishername13%3BDaily+Climatefl13%3Bpublishername25%3BEnvironmental+Health+News&tn=0reporter&tv=lindsey+konkel&ss=1">
<font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">Lindsey Konkel</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">Half of newborns in a Brooklyn-based study were exposed in the womb to triclosan,
a germ-killing chemical widely used in consumer products, researchers <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24971846">
<font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">reported</span></font></a> today at an annual meeting of chemists.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">“Our study suggests that expectant mothers may be highly exposed to these compounds,
which have endocrine-disrupting capabilities,” said study coauthor Laura Geer, an environmental health scientist at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">In addition to triclosan, about one-quarter of the newborns were exposed to traces
of triclocarban, another germ-killing chemical in some bar soaps.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">The researchers also reported today that pregnant women with higher levels of
butylparaben, a cosmetics germ-killing preservative, gave birth to shorter babies than women with lower levels. It’s not clear what health effects, if any, the shorter lengths would have on a child, Geer said. Those findings are preliminary and have not yet
been published, so Geer declined to reveal details on the length differences.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">“Shifts in birth size may be an indication of endocrine disruption,” she said.
“We hope to address the question of adverse health outcomes associated with these chemicals in future research.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">The
<a href="http://web.1.c2.audiovideoweb.com/1c2web3536/ACS_SanFran_2014/PDFs/8_%2314-107%20triclosan-Ce.pdf">
<font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">findings</span></font></a> are being presented at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco. They add to growing debate about the safety of antimicrobial chemicals in consumer products. Triclosan
and triclocarban are used in more than 2,000 items, including some toothpastes, liquid soaps, detergents, clothing and toys.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><font size="3" color="#057234" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#057234;font-weight:bold">"Expectant mothers may be highly exposed to these compounds,
which have endocrine-disrupting capabilities." –<i><span style="font-style:italic">Laura Geer, SUNY-Downstate Medical Center</span></i>
</span></font></b><font color="black"><span style="color:windowtext">Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
<a href="http://www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/ucm378542.htm">
<font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">announced</span></font></a> that antibiotic hand soaps and body washes containing the two chemicals were no more effective than regular soap and water. The FDA is
<a href="http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm378393.htm"><font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">reviewing</span></font></a> their safety and possible health effects, with a ruling expected in 2016. Earlier this year, Minnesota became the
first state to ban triclosan in some household products.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext"><a href="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/dert/programs/srp/phi/archives/publicpolicy/triclosan/index.cfm"><font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">Studies</span></font></a>
have reported that triclosan and triclocarban may add to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, disrupt development of the brain and reproductive system and accumulate in plants and animals.
<a href="http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/htdocs/chem_background/exsumpdf/butylparaben_508.pdf">
<font color="blue"><span style="color:blue">Parabens</span></font></a>, identified as estrogen mimics, have been linked to reproductive problems in lab animals, as well as allergies and skin irritation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">In the Brooklyn study, all of the 184 pregnant women tested had traces of triclosan
in their urine, while 86 percent had triclocarban, according to the study by Geer and Arizona State University researchers. Umbilical cord blood from 33 of the women was tested. It was the first time triclocarban had been studied in pregnant women and fetuses.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">The women had higher levels of the chemicals, on average, than the general U.S.
population. Most of the women tested were black.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">“If you cut off the source of exposure, eventually triclosan and triclocarban
would quickly be diluted out, but the truth is that we have universal use of these chemicals, and therefore also universal exposure,” Rolf Halden, the study’s lead investigator and director of Arizona State’s Center for Environmental Security, said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">Paul DeLeo, an associate vice president of the American Cleaning Institute, which
represents the U.S. cleaning products industry, said the traces found are too small to have any effect.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">“Everything around us gets into us. But the levels they are finding are extremely
small. There’s a wide margin of safety between these levels and the levels deemed unsafe based on standard toxicology testing,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">However, experts say that standard toxicological tests do not detect many effects,
especially ones related to hormone disruption.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">Geer said pregnant women who want to reduce their exposures should scan the active
ingredients listed on the back of products. “Avoid products labeled ‘antimicrobial,’ since these products likely contain triclosan or triclocarban as active ingredients,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">Big-name manufacturers Proctor & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson have announced
they are phasing out triclosan from their products. Many cosmetics companies market paraben-free products.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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