This study finding is not quite the first-of-its-kind that it is claimed to be. Research from Denmark published back in 2015 clearly showed that the health effects of chemicals in our food supply may be significantly more harmful than originally claimed. Recognizing that chemicals are consumed not individually but in cocktails, the 2015 research was carried out by the National Food Institute at the Technical University of Denmark and demonstrated that even small doses of substances such as pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) can amplify each other’s negative effects when present in combinations. This finding essentially confirmed concerns that we ourselves had raised years before.
To the clear benefit of their manufacturers, the traditional approach to the risk assessment of chemicals in foods has only taken the effects of each individual compound into account. Even at the global regulatory level, the reality is that no substantive consideration has been given to the fact that pesticides, artificial food additives and other synthetic chemicals are consumed not in isolation, but in tandem with each other. The cumulative long-term effect that the ingestion of multiple chemicals has been having on people’s health has thus been largely ignored.
To learn more about this topic, see this article on our website.
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Exposure to multiple pesticides significantly increases the risk of childhood cancers compared with exposures to just one pesticide, first-of-its-kind research finds, raising new fears that children are more at risk to the substances’ harmful effects than previously thought.
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This study finding is not quite the first-of-its-kind that it is claimed to be. Research from Denmark published back in 2015 clearly showed that the health effects of chemicals in our food supply may be significantly more harmful than originally claimed. Recognizing that chemicals are consumed not individually but in cocktails, the 2015 research was carried out by the National Food Institute at the Technical University of Denmark and demonstrated that even small doses of substances such as pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) can amplify each other’s negative effects when present in combinations. This finding essentially confirmed concerns that we ourselves had raised years before.
To the clear benefit of their manufacturers, the traditional approach to the risk assessment of chemicals in foods has only taken the effects of each individual compound into account. Even at the global regulatory level, the reality is that no substantive consideration has been given to the fact that pesticides, artificial food additives and other synthetic chemicals are consumed not in isolation, but in tandem with each other. The cumulative long-term effect that the ingestion of multiple chemicals has been having on people’s health has thus been largely ignored.
To learn more about this topic, see this article on our website.
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