Getting to the Bottom of Borax: Is it Safe or Not? Can’t tell how old this comment is but I’d feel bad if I didn’t say anything, at the thought of all the effort you may be spending trying to avoid this and/or the risk of you sharing misinformation and perhaps the wrong person resorts to using actual carcinogenic products instead of Borax.
I’m not sure if the studies cited here incite the exact studies I found in my research, but her conclusion and Shaukat are the same (than you, by the way, this really helped compliment my findings!!)I urge you to research directly instead of taking the information you mentioned out of context. You might be concerned as well if you read the following, pertaining to. Chronic Effects on Humans: Mutagenic for mammalian somatic cells.
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Slightly hazardous in case of skin contact, ingestion or inhalation. Lowest Published Lethal Oral Dose in Man: 1. Causes adverse reproductive effects in humans (fetotoxicity, abortion) by intraplacental route, may increase risk of Toxemia of Pregnancy in susceptible women. May cause adverse reproductive effects and birth defects in animals, particularly rats and mice – fetotoxicity, abortion, musculoskeletal abnormalities, and maternal effects (on ovaries, fallopian tubes).
May affect genetic material (mutagenic). Ingestion of large quantities can irritate the stomach with nausea and vomiting. May affect behavior (muscle spasicity/contraction, somnolence), sense organs, metabolism, and cardiovascular system. Continued exposure may produce dehydration, internal organ congestion, and coma.’Now compare the sodium chloride toxicity with the Material Safety Data Sheet or MSDS for. Reproductive/developmental toxicity: Animal feeding studies in rat, mouse and dog, at high doses, have demonstrated effects on fertility and testes. Studies with boric acid in the rat, mouse and rabbit, at high doses, demonstrate developmental effects on the fetus, including fetal weight loss and minor skeletal variations.
The doses administered were many times in excess of those to which humans would normally be exposed. No evidence of carcinogenicity in mice. No mutagenic activity was observed in a battery of short- term mutagenicity assays.
Human epidemiological studies show no increase in pulmonary disease in occupational populations with chronic exposures to borate dust and no effect on fertility.’Here you see that table salt is 5. Table salt changes the genetic material and is mutagenic, while borax is harmless in this regard. Infants are most at risk from high borax ingestion. It has been estimated that 5 to 1. The following toxicity data are from documents of the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control(1.
A review of 7. 84 accidental human poisonings from 1. However, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, and central nervous system effects, dermatitis, erythema, and death have been observed in some children and adults exposed to more than 8. Animal studies have identified reproductive toxicity as the most sensitive effects of boron ingestion. Exposure of rats, mice, and dogs for several weeks showed some damage to the testes and sperm at doses of more than 2.
Most at risk is the developing foetus, and in the studied animals rats were most affected. In one study slight reductions in the foetal body weight were already found at 1. This dose corresponds to 1. In another 3- generation study no problem was found at 1. Therefore we can assume that the. One study even reported elevated fertility rates in borax production workers as compared to the U.
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