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Toxins Watch

Featuring the latest reports about chemical toxins in food, medicine, and consumer products that may threaten your health.

Multiplying Risks In Our Water

One of the most frequently detected synthetic chemicals showing up in freshwater streams is acetaminophen, a widely used pain reliever. Now a new danger has been identified by researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology.

When acetaminophen goes through wastewater plant treatments after being dumped into sewers or excreted from the bodies of users, it transforms into numerous new chemicals, at least two of which are toxic to humans.

This morphing phenomenon is being documented across an increasingly wide range of chemicals -- some morph and multiply once metabolized by the human body, others transform once processed through water treatment or wastewater treatment processes.

 

Benzene Contaminates U.S. and UK Sodas

Two separate studies in the U.S. and Britain made the same alarming discovery the first week in March 2006 -- dozens of brands of soft drinks contain the industrial chemical toxin called benzene at levels up to eight times higher than levels considered safe for benzene in drinking water.

The U.S. FDA tested about 60 varieties of sodas, sports drinks, and juice drinks, finding benzene in a range from 2 or 3 parts per billion up to 20 parts per billion. The U.S. EPA's benzene standard for drinking water is no more than 5 parts per billion. Anything beyond that is considered a health hazard that requires public notification.

Testing in Britain was conducted by the Food Standards Agency and measured benzene levels in 230 soft drinks sold in both Britain and France. Some drinks had benzene levels eight times higher than the one parts per billion that is allowable in European drinking water.

Benzene is produced from petrochemicals and is used as an engine anti-knock agent in gasoline, as well as in household products such as paint, detergents and furniture wax. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, benzene exposure can cause leukemia and other cancers of the blood.

British scientists suspect one source for the benzene contamination may be a reaction between two common ingredients in soft drinks -- the preservative called sodium benzoate and ascorbic acid. Benzene may be a byproduct of these two chemicals interacting during the manufacturing process.

Both the U.S. and British health agencies refused to identify the drink products containing the higher levels of toxins, which is an odd way for agencies entrusted with protecting public health to treat public disclosure. There is, however, an unfortunate precedent for this secrecy.

In 1990, the U.S. FDA first discovered traces of benzene in soft drinks. The beverage industry assured the FDA that it would handle the problem, so the FDA never bothered to inform the public of what it found. Nor did the agency apparently ever check to verify that the problem had indeed been solved, until now.

 

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