Chlorine is one of my least favourite chemicals found in our daily life. So much so that I bring
in my well water from my home in the country to use as drinking water. I see at least one person a day who in some way chlorine is the cause of their ill-health. Below are some interesting and disturbing facts about chlorine:
A recent news article said that scientists believe that commonly-found airborne chemicals, such as chlorine from pools and compounds found in cleaning products could be behind the five-fold increase in inherited allergies during the past 50 years.
In a recent incident, 150 people in India suffered from severe nausea and dysentery after eating food cooked in water with high levels of chlorine.
During World War I, chlorine gas — sometimes known as bertholite — was used by the German army during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium.
A study published earlier this year found that chlorinated tap water is linked to an upsurge in food allergies. Though water is a primary source of chlorine exposure, and the one most people probably think of when they think of chlorine, many of the pesticides and herbicides applied to conventional produce are also laced with chlorine and chlorine byproducts. According to researchers, food-based chlorine exposure may, in fact, play a greater role in causing food allergies than exposure through tap water.
A study showed that boys, who spent a significant portion of time in indoor chlorinated swimming pools during childhood, had decreased reproductive hormone levels at adolescence.
Poultry products from the US are sanitized in chlorine baths. In 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would no longer allow chicken imports from the U.S. because the chlorine baths used to sanitize chickens do not meet Russian food safety standards.
A study found that smoking men who drank chlorinated tap water for more than 40 years faced double the risk of bladder cancer compared with smoking men who drank non-chlorinated water.
A study found that rates for rectal cancers for both sexes escalated with duration of consumption of chlorinated water. Individuals on low-fiber diets who also drank chlorinated water for over 40 years more than doubled their risk for rectal cancer, compared with lifetime drinkers of non-chlorinated water.
According to Renee Loux in Easy Green Living, "Under normal exposure chlorine is a gas, which is liquefied and then mixed with water to purify it. When chlorinated water (like in a hot, steamy shower), run through a faucet, or allowed to sit in a tub, much of the chlorine vaporizes into a gas. We absorb more chlorine by showering in chlorinated water than we do by drinking it."
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A recent news article said that scientists believe that commonly-found airborne chemicals, such as chlorine from pools and compounds found in cleaning products could be behind the five-fold increase in inherited allergies during the past 50 years.
In a recent incident, 150 people in India suffered from severe nausea and dysentery after eating food cooked in water with high levels of chlorine.
During World War I, chlorine gas — sometimes known as bertholite — was used by the German army during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium.
A study published earlier this year found that chlorinated tap water is linked to an upsurge in food allergies. Though water is a primary source of chlorine exposure, and the one most people probably think of when they think of chlorine, many of the pesticides and herbicides applied to conventional produce are also laced with chlorine and chlorine byproducts. According to researchers, food-based chlorine exposure may, in fact, play a greater role in causing food allergies than exposure through tap water.
A study showed that boys, who spent a significant portion of time in indoor chlorinated swimming pools during childhood, had decreased reproductive hormone levels at adolescence.
Poultry products from the US are sanitized in chlorine baths. In 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would no longer allow chicken imports from the U.S. because the chlorine baths used to sanitize chickens do not meet Russian food safety standards.
A study found that smoking men who drank chlorinated tap water for more than 40 years faced double the risk of bladder cancer compared with smoking men who drank non-chlorinated water.
A study found that rates for rectal cancers for both sexes escalated with duration of consumption of chlorinated water. Individuals on low-fiber diets who also drank chlorinated water for over 40 years more than doubled their risk for rectal cancer, compared with lifetime drinkers of non-chlorinated water.
According to Renee Loux in Easy Green Living, "Under normal exposure chlorine is a gas, which is liquefied and then mixed with water to purify it. When chlorinated water (like in a hot, steamy shower), run through a faucet, or allowed to sit in a tub, much of the chlorine vaporizes into a gas. We absorb more chlorine by showering in chlorinated water than we do by drinking it."
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