New test panel to assess neurotoxicity levels and facilitate controls

Joint Event on 17^th International Conference on Environmental Toxicology and Ecological Risk Assessment & 36^th International Conference on Environmental Chemistry & Water Resource Management

September 24-25, 2018 | Chicago, USA

Keith Schofield

University of California, USA

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Environ Anal Toxicol

Abstract :

Neurological human disturbances are on the increase worldwide. These range from autism to Alzheimerâ??s. They have a broad range of variation. This is a recent occurrence now at epidemic levels. Extensive research excludes a single cause but concludes a connection to environmental and lifestyle changes. In order to affect the brain, the material has to enter the body by absorption or ingestion and cross the blood-brain barrier. It also has to fit the time constraint. Although we are inundated with chemicals, both organic (pharmaceuticals, insecticides, pesticides) and inorganic (chemicals of the periodic table) few exist in a normal diet at levels to be of concern and generally are more poisonous or carcinogenic than neurological. Suspected materials have to be globally available and widespread. Considerations reduce possibilities to six neurotoxic elements and their compounds. These are aluminum (in cookware, food, vaccines), arsenic (water and some fish), lead (old paint, solder, some gasoline, leaded glass), mercury (some vaccines, fish, dentistry), manganese (teas), selenium (food such as nuts, eggs, fish). No one element has emerged but synergism with their combinations is noted. In the US, mercury from fish and aluminum or mercury from vaccines are sufficient to exceed minimum risk levels, especially for pregnancy. In other parts of the world arsenic and lead are dangerous. Numerous blood testing studies are available and indicate everyone has these elements in their blood. Broad distributions show some eliminate these toxins while others not. We now need to know the state of our bodies. The levels of these toxins in our blood appear important for all people and especially young women of childbearing age. A new blood test is being marketed to monitor these six elements from a very small blood sample. In this way, risk levels will become apparent and are necessary long before any pregnancy.

Biography :

Schofield was a Major Scholar, educated at the University of Cambridge. In the U.S., he has worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, General Motors Defense Research Laboratories and the University of California in its Physics, Chemistry and School of Engineering Departments. He has been a Consultant for the U.S. Department of the Air Force and the British Coal Research Establishment.

E-mail: kshome@ucsb.edu