there to sunday director of the division of environmental pediatrics at new york university school of medicine dr sunday in one of your article see you point out around ten thousand perhaps more chemicals allowed to be added to food in the united states but the food and drug administration which oversees that process physically cannot ensure that all of them a safe why is that well that reinforces the reality that we have a complex and almost swiss cheese framework when it comes to regulation in the united states you would think the environmental protection agency would protect everyone from chemicals and all foods and other ingredients but the food and drug administration the u.s. department of agriculture and other entities have substantial oversight in the united states and whereas the e.p.a. updated its regulation very recently the food and drug administration still operates on a framework that assumes that the dose proof makes the proverbial poison and the reality is that even the f.d.a. his own science suggest effects at low levels of exposure one thing that absolutely astounded me that i d

well to discuss that i'm now joined by dr lee or not it's a sunday director of the division of environmental pediatrics at new york university's school of medicine dr just and it's good to have you on the show thank you very much for talking to us thank you for having me now you're best known for your studies on. how they can make us we consume in our daily lives a fact our bodies. for example by disrupting our hormonal systems in these particular filth how much do we know how much do we not know and do we know what we don't know hormones are our signaling molecules that time and again serve so many functions in our bodies and our current destructors are synthetic chemicals that disrupt those sent a signal and thereby contribute to disease and disability across the life span there is what we know and what we don't know but what little we know suggests that over a thousand chemicals can disrupt the hormones in our bodies now originally back in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's we thought that these were once offs we know about an episode of the pharmaceutical death will still best roll which was used in pregnant women that was later found

director of the division environmental pediatrics at new york university's school of medicine dr good to have you on the show thank you very much for talking to us thank you for having me.

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