{"id":8107,"date":"2010-12-12T00:36:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T09:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2010-12-12T00:36:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T09:06:21","slug":"california-study-shows-low-levels-of-perchlorate-affect-infants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8107","title":{"rendered":"California study shows low levels of perchlorate affect infants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new  study shows newborns in perchlorate contaminated areas have a 50% chance  of having impaired thyroid function.  Perchlorate is an oxidizer used in  rocket propellant that attacks the thyroid.   It has been detected in  groundwater in Nohili, Kaua&#8217;i near the caves where munitions are stored.   I think it was also detected in Schofield (Lihu&#8217;e). The levels detected in Hawai&#8217;i were below the federal limit (around 25 parts per billion) but above the California limit (5 ppb).\u00a0\u00a0 Needless to say, when asked about conducting further investigations and cleaning\u00a0 up the contamination, the military dismissed the perchlorate contamination as insignificant. The Department of Defense has fought efforts to set tougher standards for perchlorate.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an excerpt from a <a href=\" http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/stories\/PE_News_Local_D_perchlorate11.1edf645.html\">Press Enterprise<\/a> article on the California infant health study:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A new  analysis by state scientists found that low levels of a rocket         fuel chemical common in Inland drinking water supplies appear to be more         harmful to newborn babies than previously believed, prompting  calls for        a tougher limit for tap water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Scientists with <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.pe.com\/topic\/The-Office\">the Office<\/a> of  Environmental Health Hazard Assessment examined records of blood  samples drawn from the heels of 497,458 newborns in 1998 as part of a  California disease-screening program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The researchers  found that the babies born in areas where tap water was         contaminated with perchlorate &#8212; including babies in Riverside and San         Bernardino &#8212; had a 50 percent chance of having a poorly  performing        thyroid gland, said Dr. Craig Steinmaus, lead author  of the study        published in this month&#8217;s Journal of Occupational  and Environmental        Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/stories\/PE_News_Local_D_perchlorate11.1edf645.html\">READ THE FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows newborns in perchlorate contaminated areas have a 50% chance of having impaired thyroid function. Perchlorate is an oxidizer used in rocket propellant that attacks the thyroid. It has been detected in groundwater in Nohili, Kaua&#8217;i near the caves where munitions are stored. I think it was also detected in Schofield (Lihu&#8217;e). &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California study shows low levels of perchlorate affect infants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2407],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kauai","tag-environmental-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8109,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions\/8109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}