Flame retardants in Canadian breast milk raise concerns
Canadian Press Newswire (CP) carried an item from the Globe and Mail
Newspaper on high PBDE levels in the breastmilk of Canadian women.
Health Canada says the levels are still not dangerous, but the Globe & Mail,
and the CP items both do not carry any information for women on whether or
not to keep breastfeeding.
CBC Radio and Television have also picked up the story, and they include the
important sentence "mothers should continue nursing their babies because the
known benefits of breast milk outweigh the unknown risks."
CBC's web site has the additional information we need to push news outlets
who will be considering this story:
"Dr. Robin Walker is a neonatalogist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern
Ontario. He agrees with Health Canada that the risks of BPDEs are not proven
but adds newborns are highly sensitive to environmental pollution.
"If the evidence is strong enough to persuade the United States and the
European Union to remove certain of these products from the market, perhaps
that evidence is strong enough to do the same in Canada," said Walker.
Until then, Walker said mothers should continue nursing their babies because
the known benefits of breast milk outweigh the unknown risks."
Media stories that have run already:
THE GLOBE AND MAIL NEWSPAPER
Flame retardant in breast milk raises concern
Canadian women have second-highest level in world, Health Canada finds
By MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
ENVIRONMENT REPORTER
Monday, June 7, 2004 - Page A9
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040607/TOXI
CGTA07
CBC News
Flame retardants in Canadian breast milk raise concerns
Last Updated Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:58:50
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/06/07/sci-tech/pbdes040607
(in a box to the right of this site, there are links to the TV video that
ran, the audio Radio news item, and a 5 minute interview, as weel as other
background material. These audio and video links worked for me!)
I sent out this information, and more, in an email to the new Breastfeeding
Canada News list, for more information or to subscribe, see
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bfcanadanews/.
Janice Reynolds
Saskatchewan Canada
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