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Issue #35: We've Got Chemistry

A Body's Burden: Our Chemical Legacy

Here is one of the first, but still best, pieces on chemical body burden—a prize-winning investigative series in the Oakland Tribune from 2005. Body-burden is literally the number and kind of chemical contaminants people carry in their bodies from continued exposure to chemicals that occur in everyday consumer products and industrial pollutants. 

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For decades, scientists have been studying pollution in our air, water and food. Now they're taking a closer look at the industrial chemicals found in people and all other life on Earth, and the findings are startling: Hundreds of toxic compounds building up in our bodies with harmful or unknown effects.... read more


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