PHOTO OR ILLUSTRATION CREDIT TK
TOXIC
DANGERS
go so far. A chemical ingredient
could be legally left off a label, or
may never have been tested for its
health harms. And sometimes there
are simply no safer alternatives.
The Brown family TV, for example,
still contains flame retardants.
“It is very overwhelming,” said
Lauren. “I keep thinking, ‘What
else can I do?’”
With a PhD in biology, Sandra
Steingraber may have a seeming
advantage in her ability to steer
her two kids away from environmental toxins. In fact, she chose
her family’s upstate New York
home based in large part on the
town’s high ratings on the Toxic
Release Inventory, an EPA d F&6RF