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BIOETHICS AND ENVIRONMENT EXTRANEOUS CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES IN MOTHER’S MILK
Aleksandra Frković
Ana Alebić-Juretić
Sažetak
There are many indications that our World is in crisis due to a quick growth of population and side‐growth of energy
consumption from natural resources. In that way, natural resources are more and more used up, with the inevitable
harmful effects on the environment, and in the same time, the Earth pollution and number of toxic substances are
increasing. The environmental crisis has contributed to the creation of bioethics of environment, based on reanalyzing
human opinions and values which affect personal behaviour and politics of certain states towards the Nature. Ecological
bioethics replaces the limited one‐sided anthropo‐centrism with comprehensive eco‐centrism. Mother’s milk is of unique
content and therefore the best possible nourishment for a child. However, through mother’s milk babies are exposed to
extraneous chemical substances from the environment; on this subject numerous researches have been done in the World,
as well as in Croatia. This subject is less discussed from bioethical point of view, probably because in most of the
researched samples of mother’s milk, in developed countries as well as in Croatia, the content of toxic metals is in
The study of World Health Organization and the content of organic‐chloride pesticides is in constant fall. In any case this
does not implicate that the question of extraneous chemical
Ključne riječi
bioethics; mother’s milk; environment; extraneous chemical substances
Hrčak ID:
9144
URI
Datum izdavanja:
20.12.2006.
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