As a breastfeeding mother myself, I am dismayed by the silence. In my experience, childbirth educators, pediatricians, midwives, lactation consultants, and breastfeeding advocates such as La Leche League downplay the pollution of human milk in order to prevent women from choosing the bottle over the breast. But keeping secrets is never a good strategy for advancing public health. Happily, some brave breast cancer activists are beginning the much need public conversation that breastfeeding activists are apparently too fearful to initiate. Such activists will want to take note of a new study published by researchers at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.
Aromatic amines have many sources.
They have long been used in the manufacture of dyes. They are also used to make plastic foams, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals. They are a byproduct of tobacco smoke. They are added to rubber during vulcanization, and they are used in color photography. They are called amines because the chemicals in this broad class are derived from ammonia.