What are some of the effects of chemicals in the home or workplace?
Chemicals in the home give rise to asthma, allergies, skin irritations,r espiratory illness (runny nose, sore throats, coughing), itchy eyes, eye twitching, sore eyes, allergic dermatitis, headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, memory impairment, nervousness etc. In the long term kidney damage, chronic bronchitis, lung cancer, liver damage and cancer. TESTS HAVE NOT BEEN CONDUCTED ON THE LONG TERM HEALTH EFFECTS DUE TO REACTIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL CHEMICALS PRESENT IN ONE PARTICULAR PRODUCT. Isolated tests on some individual chemicals are carried out on animals to determine what they call an LD50. This LD50 refers to the dose of a chemical that has been found to kill 50% of the test population of animals. IT IS THEN DECLARED SAFE AS ONLY HALF THE POPULATION DIED AND NO TESTS ARE CONTINUED OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME ON THE REMAINING 50%. The incidence of asthma, allergies and breast cancer has sky rocketed since the 1950’s and this is co-incidentally the time at which chemicals were bein
