Author: Lisa Frack
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When EWG tested umbilical cord blood from 10 newborn babies in 2004, we discovered an unsettling reality: in today’s world, industrial pollution begins in the womb. To be exact, the blood of these newborns contained an average of 287 industrial chemicals. 287!

Such tests are very expensive, of course, so we couldn’t afford to test for all 80,000+ chemicals on the market. We spent $10,000 and found 287. We can only imagine what we might have found if we’d spent, say, $100,000 per sample.

Our findings are important to the study of environmental health because these chemicals aren’t exactly benign. Hardly. They are carcinogens, flame retardants, and pesticides, to name a few. We are all exposed to low doses of these chemicals every day - it’s simply unavoidable. They’re in our personal care products, consumer products, the food we eat, and it’s increasingly clear that these low doses matter - a lot. They are particularly harmful to developing babies and young children, for…

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Douglas fir is certainly one of the most popular wood choices for a post and beam or timber frame home because of its structural integrity and handsome appearance. Structural posts and timbers are graded according to the American Lumber Standard Committee, Inc. through accredited agencies such as the Western Wood Products Association’s (WWPA) lumber grading rules.

A structural timber’s strength is graded for strength or physical appearance. After a timber passes through a planer for surfacing, an inspector evaluates all four sides and the ends of the timber before assigning it a grade. The inspector looks at:

Knots: checked for size, location, displacement, quality, and occurrence

Holes: (where knots have fallen out), for size and location

Wane: the presence of bark or the lack of wood fiber along the edge of the timber

Splits, Shakes, and Seasonal Checks: separations in the wood that can affect the structural integrity of… (Read the rest of this article at the following article source link for the full story)

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