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...villain, according to Sáenz and other Puerto Rican doctors, could be the local food-beef, chicken and that fundamental childhood staple, milk. These physicians suspect that meat and milk producers are unlawfully using estrogen and related compounds, including the federally banned carcinogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), to add heft to their animals. High consumption of such chemicals has been known to cause premature thelarche, and, say the doctors, when patients are withdrawn from the suspect foods, nearly all recover within six to eight months. The charges have triggered a spate of Government investigations, a volley of denials by the meat...
...assorted baneful additives, one current bestseller, Jane Brody's Nutrition Book, sensibly advocates a return to a down-home simplicity: meat, fish and milk in moderation, plenty of green and yellow vegetables, grain and some kind of fruit. "Mirror, mirror on the wall, what's the most carcinogen-free of all?" Thousands of people have even abandoned markets, selecting organically grown guavas and "pure" rice in the nation's 8,000 health-food outlets...
Radon and formaldehyde are two of the gases that most concern environmental researchers, Ken Sexton, doctoral candidate at the School of Public Health who attended the symposium, said Monday. Radon, which accumulates when many building materials--particularly granite--disintegrate, is a suspected carcinogen. Formaldehyde is a component of an easily installed foam insulation product which Massachusetts and some other states have banned...
Formaldehyde has long been known as a carcinogen, but scientists have only recently proved that its presence in a wide variety of synthetic products may be a threat to consumers' health...
...with industry will replace the adversary relationship of the past." Karen Burstein, chairman of the New York State consumer protection board, says that the government is retreating from taking action on some potentially harmful products like urea formaldehyde, a home insulation component that is feared to be a possible carcinogen. Says she: "Formerly the CPSC would have banned it or mandated warning labels...