Being the mother of a toddler, I have little time these days to hang out online. But I found a Leonard Lopate program from September 2009 featuring Monona Rossol, an industrial chemist to be fascinating and as usual, alarming. She is founder and president of the nonprofit, Arts, Crafts & Theatre Safety. It also reaffirmed a lot of the efforts I make to keep as many nasty chemicals out of my toddler's way as possible, even when that effort is a pain or socially odd.
In light of recent press on the role of environmental toxins in relation to Autism, (Nicholas Kristof, NY Times 2/24/10) this conversation is yet another stretch of what most of us consider harmless products and chemicals found in everyday items. The truth is that BPA is just the tip of the iceberg.
Check out the radio program. It very well may cause you to look at a variety of products in a new light.
