Also, the pediatricians' organization noted, exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment can hurt fertility.
But danger may well return in another form if the toxic chemicals leach into the groundwater.
"The toxic chemicals have caused many environmental emergencies linked to water and air pollution, " it said.
It is to add dioxin to the list of toxic chemicals controlled under an air-pollution law.
The CCCEH study suggests moms are passing on those toxic chemicals to their babies.
Michigan's Kalamazoo River is polluted by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), highly toxic chemicals banned in the 1970s.
Nearly a decade later, I've come to recognize the benefit of products free of potentially toxic chemicals.
The initiatives include plans to reform the car distribution system and efforts to regulate potentially toxic chemicals.
Both of these acts focus on banning a number of known toxic chemicals in items we use every day.
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Bush announced his support for a global treaty which calls for the elimination of a dozen highly toxic chemicals.
In Orkney, some organic farmers produce salmon at about half the density of conventional farms, without toxic chemicals or colourings.
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That drug causes releases several toxic chemicals as it is broken down to its active form in the body.
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Enzymes can also replace less desirable ingredients in detergent formulas, from potentially toxic chemicals to expensive petrochemical ingredients like surfactants.
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It is time to come together to finally fix this law and protect our families from toxic chemicals once and for all.
But in some areas, sediments are so polluted with toxic chemicals, such as mercury, that the mud must be stored in a dump.
While at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1990s they experimented with thimble-size reactors etched into silicon wafers to produce toxic chemicals.
It had already been invaded by smog, by radiation, by toxic chemicals in my food, and I just wasn't going to take it anymore.
One contentious moment was when Jackson and the EPA told BP to stop using highly toxic chemicals in the Gulf to disperse the oil.
Those new features include advanced stain-fighting power, of course, but they also deliver energy savings and a reduction in the use of potentially toxic chemicals.
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But in 1982, scientists found one E. coli strain, O157:H7, in sheep that had changed in a way that caused it to spew out toxic chemicals.
Despite the spread of antismoking laws, 60 percent of nonsmokers in the U.S. are still exposed to the toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke, according to the study.
In the years since the attack, civilians who survived have suffered much higher rates of serious diseases because of the toxic chemicals in the weapons, the UNODA said.
Reliance on coal, for example, contributes dramatically to increased asthma and respiratory diseases while fracking for natural gas contaminates local groundwater and vents toxic chemicals into the community air.
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Soil bacteria and fungi are particularly proficient at producing natural chemical weapons, apparently as part of a subterranean arms race to spew out toxic chemicals to kill rival species.
In fact, in many cases, the degree of exposure to toxic chemicals in tap water by inhalation is comparable to the exposure that would result from drinking the stuff.
The next stage, currently still in the laboratory, is to develop coatings that change colour when they absorb toxic chemicals, thus alerting soldiers that they are under chemical attack.
Natural gas has other advantages over coal: It produces far fewer emissions of toxic chemicals and gases that contribute to climate change, key attributes as tougher environmental rules go into effect.
Critics of existing scrubber technology however point out that the technology only removes the toxic chemicals from the atmosphere at the expense of depositing them in the ocean as contaminated waste water.
She said tests still showed that 72% of apples and 81% of pears have residues, and that it had been reported that 61% of grapes and 63% of kiwi fruit contained toxic chemicals.
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