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Your Own Personal Brownfield?

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Slashdot
2 January 2004 - 10:00am

Scientists have begun measuring pollutants in our bodies and the results sound like a chemical clean-up site.

"Now, in a process called biomonitoring, scientists are sampling urine, blood and mother's milk to catalogue the pollutants accumulating in humans. They call the results 'body burden.'... Davis Baltz shops for organic food and otherwise tries to live as healthy as he can. So he was shocked to learn that the pollutants collecting inside his body sounded much like a Superfund cleanup site: pesticides, flame retardants and other nasty, man-made chemicals turned up in a recent test."

Full Story: Scientists Measure Pollution in Humans
Source: Associated Press, January 1, 2004
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