Avoiding the most dangerous chemicals

Unfor­tu­nately we live in a world where we are sur­rounded by human-made chem­i­cals (more than 80,000 are in use in the U.S.). Of those, only a few hun­dred have been tested for safety. I learned a lot in a recent arti­cle in Nat­ural Home and Gar­den Mag­a­zine (July/August 2011) titled “Chem­i­cal War­fare” by K. Lerner and A. King­fisher. Here is a sum­mary of their advice in avoid­ing 10 of the most dan­ger­ous chem­i­cals found in and around our homes (five this week and five next week) :