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05/02/2008: "Chemicals Used To Make Teflon, Scotchgard, Found In Human Milk"

Chemicals used to make nonstick cookware and stain-resistant fabrics are spreading around the world and turning up in surprising places, everywhere from wildlife and drinking water supplies to human blood. Now, a team of researchers including Kathleen Arcaro of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has found these suspected carcinogens in samples of human milk from nursing mothers in Massachusetts.

[ These chemicals came to be there because we wanted to improve our quality of life by buying these treated products. Turns out that it makes us fatally sick instead. But someone got rich - and that's what it's really all about. ]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080430203049.htm