We’re talking not just about chemicals in cosmetics, but also in food packaging, aluminum cans, agriculture, electronics, carpeting and furniture. But if, for example, 100,000 children lose an IQ point, the entire economy notices. Each IQ point in a child is worth about 2% of their lifetime economic productivity. So if the average child makes $1m over her or his lifetime, this means an IQ point is worth about $20,000. These changes don’t always work for chemicals, especially when they are replaced with structurally similar analogues.

Source: The Guardian June 25, 2019 05:01 UTC