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by Amy Spangler
November 13, 2006

Mary Brune is a wonderful example of how fear and frustration can be a catalyst for action. Mary was breastfeeding her newborn daughter and watching the news when she heard a story about breast milk being contaminated by a chemical found in rocket fuel. “I didn’t have any idea what perchlorate was but I was really scared. Then I was outraged.”

So Mary and three friends (all breastfeeding mothers) founded Making Our Milk Safe or MOMS, an online resource with a single mission: protecting the health of babies by eliminating the growing threat of toxic chemicals and industrial pollutants in human breast milk.

“There is nothing more basic than a mother’s right to provide clean and healthy breast milk for her child,” says Brune. “No matter what we know about toxic chemicals ending up in breast milk, it’s still best to breastfeed.”