New Rochelle, NY, January 9, 2013óMore than 85,000 synthetic
chemicals are registered for commercial use with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and only about half of
those produced in large quantities are tested for their
potential toxic effects on humans. Children are particularly
vulnerable to environmental toxins and a detailed look at how
and why, and what can be done to protect children's health, is
presented in a two-part article published in Alternative and
Complementary Therapies from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.
The articles are available free on the Alternative and
Complementary Therapies website at
http://www.liebertpub.com/act. "The effects of environmental
toxins on our children's health could turn out to be one of the
largest public health crises that we will ever have to face,"
says Robert Rountree, MD, who practices family medicine in
Boulder, CO, and is the author of the two-part Roundoc Rx
article in Alternative and Complementary Therapies entitled
"Environmental Toxins