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Our Health is directly effected
by our environment and vise versa. EnviroHealth terms our relationship
with our world and each other.
Our House is a very fine house...or is it? Building materials can cause a very toxic house. Plants are required for us to exist. They are our oxygen, our food, our clothes, our homes, and they surround us with beauty. Many plants even purify our air. Plants can improve indoor air quality (IAQ) however for those sensitive to mold they can be hazardous. Mold is a strange thing. Toxic Chemicals Abundant in Homes - Cape Cod Times 15sep03 The Inside Story
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Nonstick Toxicant Canadian researchers have found that fluorinated polymers such as those used in nonstick cookware coatings like Teflon emit persistent and possibly harmful compounds when heated. The chemicals emitted include trace amounts of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons, perfluorocarboxylates (which accumulate in animal tissues), and trifluoroacetic acid (which has unknown effects on animals and humans). Study researcher Scott Mabury from the University of Toronto says that although the long-term environmental impacts of trifluoroacetic acid are as yet unknown, high waterborne concentrations of the compound can be phytotoxic and take decades to degrade. |
