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How could you have known?

The answer is, “There is no way you could have”.

MEK is a colorless, unstable, organic solvent with a pleasantly overpowering odor parallel to lacquer thinner. It is commonly used as an industrial cleaning solution.

MEK's fetotoxic ability is dose dependent, with the nature and extent of fetal harm increasing as the daily dose and the duration of exposure increases.

The animal toxicology studies on MEK are all large, well calculated studies, and all make obvious connections associating the solvent to fetotoxicity.

Studies conducted on rodents confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt, that MEK induces intrauterine growth retardation and therefore is a developmental toxicant.

As a result, if a pregnant woman is routinely breathing air containing MEK, her fetus will be receiving a fetotoxic dose of MEK.

MEK Targets the Fetal Brain

Manufacturers argue that because there are no human studies or case reports which unequivocally classify MEK as a foundation of human developmental impairment; it is "useless science" to attribute a given child's developmental harm to MEK. After all, nobody has, or ever will, test MEK on pregnant women.

In litigated cases of congenital brain damage caused by MEK, it has been shown that contact to organic solvents during pregnancy pose an unrelenting risk to the developing human fetus. This crucial fact has been known to toxicologists for decades.

Idiopathic Often Means the Cause is Environmental

Although many cases of congenital microcephaly are labeled "idiopathic" because no apparent environmental or genetic cause can be convincingly identified, about four in five cases of isolated microcephaly fall into the idiopathic category.

Once all other potential causes have been ruled out, environmental exposures are often the cause and if there is a chronic, in utero exposure to MEK, it is most probably the cause of microcephaly or mental retardation.