Autism drug swept from shelves
August 16, 2010 in Special Needs News by Admin Dawn
If ever there were a substance that you wouldn’t expect parents to be sprinkling on their kids’ breakfast cereal, it’s OSR#1.
That’s an industrial chemical developed to treat mining wastewater.
But as Tribune reporter Trine Tsouderos revealed earlier this year, OSR#1 — a compound that binds to heavy metals — was sold to parents as a dietary supplement and alternative autism treatment.
And, appallingly, parents were dosing their kids with it.
via Autism drug swept from shelves – chicagotribune.com.
