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Since we are already in October (how does that happen?) I thought we could talk about a scary topic, heavy metal toxins. The list below is pulled from the Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry. There are a lot of scary things out there in the world, and four of the top 10 Hazardous Substances are heavy metals. The other top 20 items are all scary things that we brilliant humans have invented or found a way to dispose of in an improper manner.
Top 20 Hazardous Substances from the 2005 CERCLA Priority List of Hazardous Substances
| 1 | ARSENIC |
| 2 | LEAD |
| 3 | MERCURY |
| 4 | VINYL CHLORIDE |
| 5 | POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS |
| 6 | BENZENE |
| 7 | POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS |
| 8 | CADMIUM |
| 9 | BENZO(A)PYRENE |
| 10 | BENZO(B)FLUORANTHENE |
| 11 | CHLOROFORM |
| 12 | DDT, P,P’- |
| 13 | AROCLOR 1254 |
| 14 | AROCLOR 1260 |
| 15 | DIBENZO(A,H)ANTHRACENE |
| 16 | TRICHLOROETHYLENE |
| 17 | DIELDRIN |
| 18 | CHROMIUM, HEXAVALENT |
| 19 | PHOSPHORUS, WHITE |
| 20 | DDE, P,P’- |
*The list above is titled 2005 but it was updated in late 2007.
You can follow the links above to the ATSDR’s website, or you can stick around this week and we will talk about all the scary places that we come into contact with products like this, and then touch on how to address the situation.
Have you ever head heavy metal poisoning?
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