Fireworks toxins can damage your health

Fireworks toxins can damage your health. Fireworks contain potassium perchlorate and other heavy metals such as dioxin, cadmium, and lead. These toxins land on the soil and can leak into lakes and enter the food chain. Avoid exposure to fireworks by remaining inside or far away from the fireworks displays.

What toxins are in fireworks?
Fireworks toxins include potassium perchlorate, gunpowder, and metals such as aluminum, dioxin, rubidium, cadmium, antimony, mercury, lithium, arsenic and lead. Potassium perchlorate is an ingredient in rocket fuel. It can reduce the body’s ability to absorb iodine, which is critical to thyroid health. The gunpowder used in …read more