Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples, including BPA, BPS, melamine, cyanuric acid, and triclosan. About 92% of 50 samples were contaminated with at least one of the anti-microbials or plasticizers for which researchers checked.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/14/breast-milk-research-chemicals
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Thermal receipt paper has BPA and BPS on the surface. Cashiers should wear gloves
Wonderful. Another thing I have no control over to be guilty of as a mother. Just what my over anxious fried brain needs!
I wonder how this measures with samples from European countries with different safety requirements?
Excuse my ignorance-are those chemicals from the packaging of the sample or directly? What I don’t get is-is IT implying that se are so contađinated by chemicals, we shouldn’t breastfeed put infanta anymore?
As someone who was very pelud of breeastfeedi g my children, I feel so sad. What should have been one of the most benevolent things my body could do for themto be strong and healthy, it May have been something that harmed them? That is so tragic.
I remember seeing a study 30 years ago about the mind-boggling levels of PCBs in the reast milk of Inuit mothers. The culprit for the dangerous levels was the consumption of marine mammals. I’m not surprised by the result of this study, and I expect that the problem will continue to accelerate as more toxins work their way through the food chain. I would expect that we can minimize our ingestion of these and other toxic chemicals by eating lower on the food chain, but as these chemicals persist in the envirinment, some of them, for a very long time,and we release more plastic and chemical waste into the foodchain every year, so even by switching to a vegan diet there’s no guarantee that you won’t end up with POPs like dioxins, fuhrans, PCBs, PF@S, and chlorine chems in your tissues.
“why are so many kids autistic in the US these days?!”
Let me take a stab at it….
Big formula out here grasping
So much for fed is best.
The only surprising thing is that those chemicals are not in 100% of the samples.
Cyanuric Acid… are breastfeeding women drinking pool water???
Great none of these are real world hormone disruptors.
BPA is completely metabolized in the skin before it reaches the blood stream. Its glucoronidated metabolite absolutely has no activity. Check the reference u want to come back with carefully. The receipt freak out is a joke. BPA isn’t absorbed orally either. Everything else on this list is, being generous, less active than the numerous natural products prob slathered or ingested by humans in the name wellness. This is advocacy science by an advocate non profit.
Were these chemicals found at levels anywhere near their safe exposure limit, or was any amount treated as dangerous?
The Trump Administration and GOP have defunded the EPA and relaxed water and food safety standards.
Plastic. Reciept paper, household chemical “cleaners” and “fragranances”.
If environmental concentrations of these compounds are high enough to be detected in breast milk they’re almost certainly high enough for fetal exposure to occur in utero. Framing exposure as a postnatal risk ignores the greater hazard, imho.
Thats the best part, its exactly what the CEOs wanted