[Jewelry making - Article 00504] - Re: [Orchid] Pregnancy and ventillation in studio

[Kay Davis]

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    Well now that 56he fear mongers have had their say I will just add a
    couple of cents of common sense. 

    1) I don't give a damm how cancer causing a chemical / product
    is.... you cannot directly compare apples to oranges, or in this case
    carcinogenic toxicity to tetragenic toxicity. Ditto for human
    toxicity versus fetal toxicity. 

    2) The fetus is most susceptible to damage in the first trimester by
    your own statement you are already past that point. Given that I
    suspect any changes come in the too late / too little category. 

    However if you are really serious about it the first step is to
    obtain MSDS sheets for all the various products you have use. Any
    that are acutely tetragenic will have the information on the MSDS
    sheet. 

    Next take your list of "suspects" and go on line and use tools such
    as goggle to search on tetragenic and whatever chemical / product you
    are concerned about to find more information. However use quality
    sources of information not sites like 

    I_dropped_and_broke_a_mercury_thermometer_10_years_ago_and_now_I_KNOW
     _all_my_problems_are_due_to_mercury.com 

    - not a real site, just an example (note to Orchid editors, yes I
    know it is not a real site so don't bother testing it or making a
    short URL, it is being used as an example of the stupid sites that do
    exist) 

    Along the same lines when I read oh I changed from product a to b
    because someone told me it is or might be "non-toxic" well the safe
    thing to do is to get the MSDS for both products and compare. 

    Remember women have worked in conditions much worse than a modern
    Jewelry studio and borne healthy children in the past, rule 1: don't
    panic and take things logically. 

    Kay 

    PS for non native English speakers I include the following
    definition: Tetragenic : Any substance or agent that is capable of
    interfering with normal embryonic development and can produce
    non-heritable birth defects. Tetragenic substances are most often
    radiation or chemicals. 

    PPS I especially support the comments of Stephen Walker, as a
    reasoned well balanced response
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