According to the study of EWG, the six biomonitoring programs revealed a total of 455 different pollutants, pesticides, and industrial chemicals in the bodies or cord blood of different people - including ten newborn babies with an average of 200 chemicals in each child.

The results of an Environmental Working Group Body Burden testing program has revealed that mothers and daughters share a common body burden of at least 35 environmental cancer-causing chemicals including phthalate plasticizers, lead, methyl mercury, brominated flame retardants, and Teflon and Scotchgard perfluorochemicals PFOA and PFOS. These pollutants appear to be passed from a mother's placenta or breast milk into her daughter's body. Some of the key findings in this testing program found:

* Chemicals that persist in the body were found at higher levels in mothers than daughters, showing how chemicals can build up in the body over a lifetime.

* The chemical burden inherited by daughters at birth will last for decades, some for a lifetime - and the daughters will pass this same chemical burden on to their children.

* Daughters tested had more chemicals in common with their mothers than with a group of 16 other women who were tested. This underscores the long-lasting influence of the pollution passed from mother to daughter, and their shared exposures as the child grows up.

EWG's vice president for research Jane Houlihan said EPA studies show that children before age two are ten times more sensitive to cancer-causing chemicals than adults. Scientists have found that chemicals toxic effects can be passed down for four generations, by causing permanent genetic changes that can be inherited. A stew of toxic chemicals is not the legacy mothers want to hand down to their children.

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