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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Interview with Dr. Jordi Sunyer
The daily threat. So the journalist Alex Milián called the cover story of the weekly El Temps' first week of January 2010. This article deals with the research work being carried out by researchers studying the effects of chemical pollution (pollution, pesticides, food or cleaning products) on the development of children who have been exposed through mothers during the pregnancy process.
INMA Project
The report highlights the work is being carried out since the INMA project. The article explains that we started walking in 1997 with two cohorts of pregnant women in the Ribera d'Ebre and Menorca. Dr. Jordi Sunyer said that "at that time what we are most concerned about specific pollution was a byproduct of an industrial company Flix, hexachlorobenzene (a pesticide), which according to various studies was neurotoxic and carcinogenic in animals."
Doctor Sunyer interview
The story of The Temps is completed with a good interview to Dr. Jordi Sunyer. In the intro of the interview is stressed as one of the drivers of Children and Environment Project (INMA) and two pages of the same Dr Sunyer conducts some very interesting statements.
Some of their responses would be these: "We have seen that DDT causes a suppression of immunity and increases the risk of respiratory infections", "neurodevelopmental we have shown that breastfeeding protects children from many of the chemical agents that sets "," bleach is a powerful bacterizida and where it is serving the children had less diarrhea and gastroenteritis "or" South Africans there are enough studies on infertility and malformations in the genito-utinario of children where sprayed over with DTT.
Serve these words of Dr. Jordi Sunyer a short summary of the contents of their statements. Enclosed is the full report, given its interest.
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