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	<title><![CDATA[No More Tears or Toxic Exposures from Baby Shampoo]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stacy-malkan/no-more-tears-or-toxic-ex_b_85140.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Baby powders, lotions and shampoos -- pure as the driven snow right? Not so much. A new study published this week in <a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/121/2/e260?maxtoshow=&amp;HITS=10&amp;hits=10&amp;RESULTFORMAT=&amp;fulltext=phthalates&amp;searchid=1&amp;FIRSTINDEX=0&amp;volume=121&amp;issue=2&amp;resourcetype=HWCIT"><em>Pediatrics Journal</em></a> surmises that toxic chemicals linked to infertility are getting into babies' bodies from their routine use of personal care products.</p>

<p>The chemicals in question are called phthalates. <a href="http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NEWSCIENCE/oncompounds/phthalates/phthalates.htm">Decades of research</a> on lab animals show that phthalates cause infertility, birth defects and other malformations of the male reproductive tract -- health problems that have (coincidentally?) been...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-02-05T16:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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