Rob Bilott is indeed a hero.<p>But damn, &quot;PFOA was only one of more than 60,000 synthetic chemicals that companies produced and released into the world without regulatory oversight&quot;.<p>Consider breast cancer. One of the risk factors is nulliparity (having borne no children). There&#x27;s also an inverse association between breast cancer risk and parity (number of children). One of the mechanisms for that, it seems, is that lipophilic organic pollutants are mobilized from womens&#x27; fat during pregnancy and lactation. People are born with ~20% of typical lifetime doses of such pollutants.<p>Human breast milk cannot be sold commercially. One reason is that it&#x27;s too contaminated with organic pollutants. Life is funny.