Is the 'Household Chemical Purge' the New Baby-Proofing?

Is the 'Household Chemical Purge' the New Baby-Proofing?
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/is-the-household-chemical-purge-the-new-baby-proofing/

"Have you purged your home of bisphenol A (known as BPA) yet? How about polyvinyl chloride (PVC)? In a world with books with titles like "Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things" and documentaries like "My Toxic Baby," it's hard not to mock the urge to eliminate chemicals from our children's environments, and equally hard not to see that we need to at least examine the chemicals in our children's environments.

This subject — the arguable toxicity, or at least the chemically altered status, of the world around us — is a difficult one for parents. As Michael Tortorello writes for The Times in his article "Is It Safe to Play Yet? Going to Extreme Lengths to Purge Household Toxins," most know, even as they search for "estrogenic hormones and neurotoxins and bioaccumulators," that their efforts are best captured by "a slogan from the David Foster Wallace novel 'Infinite Jest': 'Yes, I'm paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?' ""