Louisville, Ky. - Like many parents Mary Kay Korfage takes extreme care when it comes to the health of her two boys, feeding them only organic food free of pesticides. 

Now comes the news of body burden, with cutting edge testing which reveals amounts of toxic chemicals built up in the body to potentially harmful levels.  These chemicals come from everyday things like plastics, cleaning products and flame-retardants used in upholstery and pajamas.

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard the outcry.  A Jeffersonville mattress manufacturer has led a crusade to keep flame retardant chemicals out of bedding.

“It’s like sleeping on rat poison,” Mark Stroble tells WHAS11 News.  Stroble lost his battle against the federal government July first of this year when flame retardant bedding became mandatory.

Some health experts believe that body burden testing will reveal the rising rates behind childhood cancer, asthma, birth defects and developmental disorders.  Others say that trace chemical amounts are nothing to worry about.

The Environment Protection Agency does not require chemical manufacturers to conduct human toxicity studies before approving their chemicals for use in the marketplace.  A manufacturer simply has to submit paper work on a chemical, all the data that exists on that chemical and to date and wait 90 days for approval.