>And more chemicals today?? When I was a kid in the 60s we had lead on every surface, heavy smoke indoors and out, pesticides everywhere, plenty of plastic pack

>And more chemicals today?? When I was a kid in the 60s we had lead on every surface, heavy smoke indoors and out, pesticides everywhere, plenty of plastic packaging, and all sorts of poisonous things around us that have since been banned. Judged by today's standards we should have all been dead. there are certainly more chemicals today than then. Why? Largely to get around regulations that were put in place to curb the dangerous ones while maintaining a similar manufacturing method for any given product. This is a good thing, i'm not proposing it isn't; but there are definitely more chemicals now. The problem now is that due to the explosion in variety it'll presumably take longer to judge the risks and evaluate each one.