How Toxic Exposure Causes Birth Defects

Every 4.5 minutes, a baby is born with a birth defect in the U.S.

DOES TOXIC EXPOSURE CAUSE BIRTH DEFECTS?

Dangerous chemicals that cause birth defects are often used in many workplaces, especially high-tech manufacturing and semiconductor factories and agricultural job places, like farms and nurseries. Energy production workers in coal, fracking, and oil & gas also use harmful chemicals that cause birth defects.

These birth defects can occur when chemicals are inhaled, ingested or absorbed through the skin by either the mother or father, especially during pregnancy. A parent’s exposure to toxic chemicals can cause their unborn children to suffer major birth defects, and can cause their reproductive organs to become damaged. Many people are surprised to learn that this sort of damage can occur before pregnancy on the mother’s and the father’s side.

Parents with damaged reproductive body parts may not be able to have healthy babies, and those with damaged chromosomes pass on the damage to their unborn children in the form of birth defects or reproductive injuries. Common birth defects caused by toxic chemicals include brain damage, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, and developmental delays. But those are just a few.

It’s not just workplaces that are affected. Leftover chemicals from coal plants are placed in coal ash dump sites near residential communities. These chemicals leak into the water and air, and nearby people are exposed. Energy production sites where fracking occurs can also put local residents at risk of exposure to chemicals, which can harm their reproductive systems, and cause their future children to be born with birth defects.

THIS IS CALLED TOXIC EXPOSURE. EXPOSURE TO TOXIC CHEMICALS CAUSES BIRTH DEFECTS.

What toxic chemicals are the causes of birth defects?

TOXIC CHEMICALS THAT CAUSE BIRTH DEFECTS are used in many industries, including high tech and electronics manufacturing, agriculture and farming and coal. The chemicals used in electronic cleanroom environments to make technology or semiconductor parts are very dangerous. In agriculture, pesticides and other chemicals are connected to birth defects and reproductive problems. Coal ash contains heavy metals, which even when exposed to at low levels have been known to cause birth defects.