Click here to read or download the report. A report authored by Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, links chemicals widely used by industry and commonly found at home to learning, behavioral and developmental disabilities.




Awareness of learning and behavioral disorders is reaching more and more people, either first hand or through someone we know. Can toxics in our air, water or food combine with other factors to keep our children from reaching their full human potential?


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Poisonous Wood: Arsenic in much of the wood used for playgrounds and decks poses health threats that can be avoided. Public interest groups helped achieve a phase-out but health and environmental concerns remain.


Trade Secrets exposes the lack of testing for health effects of chemicals, discusses the threats chemicals pose to future generations and promotes precautionary measures.
View Our Stolen Future or the PBS Trade Secrets companion site.


Mercury in Fish Threatens Unborn: "20/20 went shopping for fish... to test for mercury."



Announcements by the U.S. EPA and/or FDA on arsenic, dioxin, Dursban and mercury—which are associated with serious health, developmental or reproductive hazards—have focused attention on winning better protections for children and our environment.You can help. Click here to learn more.


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