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Beware: Most Feminine Hygiene Products have Toxic Ingredients

Your Feminine hygiene products may be poisoning you Conventional tampons and sanitary pads are bleached using chlorine dioxide which is technically “chlorine-free,” but the process produces dioxins as a byproduct released into the environment. According to the US  EPA, dioxin exposure causes cancer in lab animals and also poses a high risk to humans. Conventional tampons

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Toxic Baby

Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect her unborn child? So she asked scientist Tyrone Hayes to brief her on one he studied closely: atrazine, a herbicide used on corn. (Hayes, an expert on amphibians, is a critic of atrazine, which displays a disturbing effect

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