How Regular Dry Cleaning Affects Your Health

Perc is a volatile chlorinated solvent that has a bioaccumulative affect. This means that it is stored in your body fat, and the more you are exposed to it, the more it can harm you.

Here are a few links to learn more about how perc exposure can affect you and your family’s health:

Natural Resources Defense Council:
Healthy Milk – Healthy Baby, Chemical Pollution and Mother’s milk

Coalition for Clean Air:
Hung Out to Dry – How the Use of Perchloroethylene in Drycleaning Endangers You and Your Family’s Health (pdf)

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry:
ToxFAQ’s for PERC

Physicians for Social Responsibility:
In Harm’s Way:
Toxic Threats to Child Development
How Chemical Exposures Affect Reproductive Health

Chemical Body Burden Home Page

Article on fungi in bedding.
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Chemical exposure affects everyone.. Here's a recent article: Toxic Sludge Flow in Canadian Veins
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