Reduce Your Toxic Burden

By Michael A. Smith, MD

Currently, there are an astonishing 84,000 synthetic chemicals manufactured or processed in the United States, with about 1,000 new ones introduced each year.¹

Most people just assume these chemicals have undergone extensive safety testing before being released to the market. But unfortunately, that’s not the case.

Consider this stunner. There are six internationally agreed upon tests for screening the toxicity of high-produce volume (HPV) chemicals: acute toxicity, chronic toxicity, reproductive toxicity, mutagenicity, ecotoxicity, and environmental fate. Sadly, according to a 1998 EPA report, only 7 percent of the 3,000 HPV chemicals that the United States makes …read more