Industrial Chemicals are Everywhere. What Doctors Must Know and Do to Help Patients Avoid Them.

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Our nation faces persistent health risks from a deluge of industrial chemicals from modern farming practices; food manufacturing and packaging systems; pharmaceutical drugs; nutritional supplements; and personal care and home cleaning products. The ubiquitous presence of chemicals today is evidenced by studies detecting many foreign chemicals in the umbilical cords of pregnant women. As noted …