thyroid disease article

[Stan Harts <hartss@uncwil.edu>]

Try the following.  This was perchlorate that is a component of rocket fuel.  The big story about this is an ethics question.  Some researchers introduced perchlorates into some persons drinking water to determine if perchlorate was harmful.  This is a major ethics question if that is true.

Article about thyroid/perchlorates

http://www.thyroid.about.com/health/thyroid/library/weekly/aa082100a.htm

http://www.dhs.cahwnet.gov/ps/ddwem/chemicals/perchl/perchlindex.htm

Article about ethics question

http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,252402-412,00.shtml

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Stan H. Harts
UNCW Environmental Health & Safety Department
Director
(910) 962-3108
E-mail: Hartss@uncwil.edu