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<b><font size="6" color="black" face="Georgia"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:20.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;font-weight:bold">The Human Experiment: exploring the rise in reproductive problems<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">September 3, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333;font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/by/Sarah-Berry"><font color="#005f96"><span style="color:#005F96;text-decoration:none">Sarah
Berry</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><img border="0" width="620" height="349" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CFC845.D6BCA6A0" alt="Au naturel: Therese Kerr believes minimising unnecessary exposure to chemicals has improved her health."></span></font><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#666666" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Au naturel: Therese Kerr believes minimising unnecessary exposure to chemicals has improved her health.
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Therese Kerr believes the beauty products she used to coat her body in are to blame for the bout of endometriosis she suffered
when she was 30.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"Without a doubt," says Kerr, who also had her spleen removed because of tumours in 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">For Kerr, mother of Miranda and son Matthew, the endometriosis was "so severe" she was unable to have the four children she longed
for.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><img border="0" width="300" height="453" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.png@01CFC845.D6BCA6A0" alt="The Human Experiment"></span></font><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#666666" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">The Human Experiment
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"I lathered myself in perfumes and creams, not knowing the impact," says Kerr, 49, who has her own line of organic personal care
products. "The very things we think are making us feminine are taking our femininity away, causing us not to be able to have children."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.5in;background:white"><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Advertisement</span></font><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Professor Ian Rae of Melbourne University and former President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute however has his doubts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"Endometriosis is not usually associated with exposure to chemical substances so I think it's unlikely that Ms Kerr's endometriosis
was caused by the perfumes and cosmetics she used," says Rae.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><img border="0" width="300" height="536" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CFC845.D6BCA6A0" alt="Miranda and Therese Kerr."></span></font><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="#666666" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Miranda and Therese Kerr.
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">But with reproductive problems
<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/%20http:/www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/11/us-couples-infertility-idUSBRE90A13Y20130111">
<font color="#005f96"><span style="color:#005F96;text-decoration:none">on the rise</span></font></a> many, like Kerr, are questioning the role of some of the chemicals we are exposed to.
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">A new documentary by Sean Penn called
<i><span style="font-style:italic"><a href="http://thehumanexperimentmovie.com/"><font color="#005f96"><span style="color:#005F96;text-decoration:none">The Human Experiment,</span></font></a></span></i> that Kerr has helped to bring
<a href="http://www.naturallyhome.com.au/v/the-human-experiment/147"><font color="#005f96"><span style="color:#005F96;text-decoration:none">to Australia</span></font></a>, explores the issue.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Of the 80,000-odd toxins available in America, for instance, only a handful have been tested, the film says. Yet they are found
in everything from perfume to make-up and personal care products as well as in our food and food packaging.
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">According to the film's press release,
<i><span style="font-style:italic">The Human Experiment</span></i> "lifts the veil on the shocking reality that thousands of untested chemicals are in our everyday products, our homes and inside of us".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"It's true worldwide that in the past many chemicals were introduced onto the market with very little testing," says Professor
Rae.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"More stringent testing is required of all new chemicals now, whatever the intended use, but even now it's sometimes the case that
something that appeared a few years ago to be safe did have longer-term consequences that nobody thought of looking for."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">A
<a href="http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1307728/%20"><font color="#005f96"><span style="color:#005F96;text-decoration:none">new review</span></font></a> of the research has found BPA, a chemical used in food and beverage packages to protect food from contamination
and extend shelf life, to be "a reproductive toxicant" that can affect both men and women.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">This is of particular concern given that, in a recent study,
<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/%20http:/www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890623813003547">
<font color="#005f96"><span style="color:#005F96;text-decoration:none">80 per cent</span></font></a> of the women tested positive for BPA in urine.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Food Standards Australia and New Zealand isn't convinced.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"The mere detection of a particular chemical in urine is not automatically cause for concern," they said in a statement to Fairfax.
"Estimated dietary exposure to BPA is well below the Tolerable Daily Intake."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Whether estimated levels of tolerable exposure to various toxins are low enough is an issue for many.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"The topic of whether chemical exposure harms human health will always be an emotive one," says Dr Catherine Itman, of the school
of Environmental and Life Sciences at Newcastle University. "It must be considered in the context of dose, duration of exposure and in terms of the reality that we are all exposed to a multitude of chemicals throughout our lives."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Another problem many scientists face is understanding the role of individual chemicals versus the interaction of various chemicals
versus genetics and other lifestyle factors when it comes to infertility risk and other issues.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"This is difficult to study in people, particularly if adverse health effects emerge years or generations later, and such studies
are exceedingly expensive to undertake," says Itman.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Professor Rae adds: "Because the most obviously toxic substances have been removed, often long ago, from commerce, we are usually
dealing with substances for which it is hard to establish cause-and-effect, in many cases because the effects are subtle or not well characterised.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"Or ones for which there are possibly multiple causes, or no known causes at all. There is also the matter of different people's
sensitivity to the chemicals but this is not a well-researched area."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">This may be true, and the National Industrial Chemicals scheme
<a href="http://www.nicnas.gov.au/chemical-information/cosmetics/cosmetics-standard">
<font color="#005f96"><span style="color:#005F96;text-decoration:none">regulates the ingredients</span></font></a> of chemicals in Australian cosmetics, but some are not willing to wait to find out the results of ongoing research.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Since her illnesses Kerr is not taking chances.
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"The average baby is now born with over
<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/newborn-babies-chemicals-exposure-bpa/">
<font color="#005f96"><span style="color:#005F96;text-decoration:none">130 chemicals</span></font></a> in their little body," Kerr says.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"Chemicals are deemed safe until proven otherwise. Should we not err on the side of caution as other countries do and not allow
the use of chemicals in our everyday products until those chemicals are proven safe? We have reached a point where people need to ask questions."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-right:12.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white">
<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">She eats only certified organic, uses only organic body products and developed her own line of natural personal care products including
toothpaste, deodorant and hand wash.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Then there is
<i><span style="font-style:italic">The Human Experiment.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Like the film's makers, Kerr says it is intended to create awareness so people can do their own research and make more informed
choices.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"The underlying message of this film hopefully will advocate for greater research investment in quantifying the short- and long-term
impacts of exposure to realistic doses, and to chemical mixtures, to better interpret whether there is true cause for concern regarding public health and safety," says Dr Itman.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In the mean time, Kerr suggests the Environmental Working Group's
<a href="http://www.ewg.org/"><font color="#005f96"><span style="color:#005F96;text-decoration:none">website</span></font></a> as an "amazing resource" for those looking to minimise exposure to everyday toxins.
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">As a result of her own research and journey to wellness, she says it was a simple conclusion that she came to:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"Maybe, just maybe what I am doing is impacting my health and the health of my children," says Kerr.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Rae believes Kerr's attitude is understandable but says it's only part of the picture.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"She comments 'we have reached a point' where we need to ask questions and, by implication, take actions," he says. "That's already
happening... I think the real 'nasties' are being addressed but the processes are very expensive and there is a need to get reliable evidence not just anecdotes that suggest there might be a problem."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Deborah L. DeBiasi</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><b><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold">Email: Deborah.DeBiasi@deq.virginia.gov</span></font></b><b><i><font size="2" color="red"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"><br>
</span></font></i></b><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">WEB site address:
<a href="http://www.deq.virginia.gov/">www.deq.virginia.gov</a></span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Virginia Department of Environmental Quality</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Office of Water Permits
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Industrial Pretreatment/Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Program</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">PPCPs, EDCs, and Microconstituents<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><a href="http://www.deq.virginia.gov/Programs/Water/PermittingCompliance/PollutionDischargeElimination/Microconstituents.aspx">http://www.deq.virginia.gov/Programs/Water/PermittingCompliance/PollutionDischargeElimination/Microconstituents.aspx</a></span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Mail: P.O. Box 1105, Richmond, VA 23218</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Location: 629 E. Main Street, Richmond, VA 23219</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">PH: 804-698-4028 FAX: 804-698-4032<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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