Institutional Inertia: Is Enough Being Done to Protect Children from Aluminum Toxicity?
By the Children's Health Defense Team
Aluminum is highly toxic with very young children particularly at risk for negative health effects following exposure. Despite the widely-acknowledged threats to human health posed by aluminum, it continues to contaminate a variety of products routinely given to infants and preemies including infant formulas, parenteral nutrition systems, and vaccines.
According to one group of researchers, not only does aluminum constitute a “significant component of newborns’ exposure to xenobiotics and contaminants,” but the consequences of aluminum overload in the perinatal period can have pathological consequences that persist into adulthood. Why have regulators and manufacturers been largely tone-deaf to the crescendo of studies pointing to aluminum toxicity?
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