ONTARIO BABIES ARE EXPOSED TO INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS WHILE IN THE WOMB

Last Thursday's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "Babies exposed to toxins before birth". A number of environmental/industrial chemicals have been found in the cord blodd of some newborns in Toronto and Hamilton. "The report by Environmental Defence released Wednesday suggests babies are exposed to chemicals in the womb because pollutants are so pervasive both in the environment and in widely used consumer products.". These chemicals include PCB's, PFC's and organochlorine pesticides. Of course our neighbour here in Elmira, Chemtura, have shared their pesticides with the Grand River watershed including DDT and from the recent look of things in an M.O.E. study, are continuing to so do.

It is my belief that twenty years after the loudest environmental critics and activists are gone, the common belief and refrain will be why weren't you louder. Down the road Canadian citizens with the benefit of hindsight will see what many of us have seen and understood for the last twenty years.