My Toxic Baby (2009)

With heightened awareness of health risks posed by chemicals used in everyday products, modern parenting is fast becoming a decision-making minefield. Just how far would you go to protect your growing child?

Director:

Min Sook Lee

Storyline

From feeding and fussing to poo-poos and boo-boos, new moms and dads have enough to worry about. But with heightened awareness of health risks posed by chemicals used in everyday products, modern parenting is fast becoming a decision-making minefield. Just how far would you go to protect your growing child? As award-winning filmmaker Min Sook Lee discovers in her eye-opening, intimate and wryly funny documentary My Toxic Baby, it's not so easy going green. With her baby daughter on her hip, Lee embarks on a determined quest to find simple, sane and affordable ways to reduce toxic threats, spurred to action after news reports of toy recalls and plastic baby bottles leaching bisphenol A fill her head with questions. She takes her own body on a detox journey, looks more closely at everyday products and food she buys and even invites an analyst to measure lead levels in her own home-with startling results. Along the way Lee meets other dynamic young women finding healthy, eco-friendly ...

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Taglines:

One mother's search for safe, sane and affordable ways to raise her child in a toxic world.

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Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 September 2009 (Canada)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Storyline Entertainment

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