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In This Section: Key to Contaminants http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden/es.php
 Volatile and Semi-volatile organic chemicals. — Industrial solvents and gasoline ingredients like xylene and ethyl benzene. Toxic to nervous system, some heavily used SVOCs (benzene) cause cancer.
Biomonitoring - in the experts own words"Biomonitoring is a tool to help better understand human exposure to environmental chemicals – both natural and man-made. It identifies certain substances in the body at the time of measurement. If gathered from a representative sample of a population – for instance, children or adults in a particular area – biomonitoring can be used to document whether that subgroup as a whole has been exposed to some chemicals." "This information can be helpful in determining whether chemical exposures are causing illness and if so, what type of medical treatment is needed. In addition, decision makers need information about which toxic substances accumulate in human tissue and at what levels to make decisions on environmental and public health issues that will affect the public. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) currently conducts its biomonitoring program through the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)." "CDC's Environmental Health Laboratory conducts the National Biomonitoring Program (NBP). The Program specializes in biomonitoring, which is the direct measurement of people's exposure to toxic substances in the environment by measuring the substances or their metabolites in human specimens, such as blood or urine. Biomonitoring measurements are the most health-relevant assessments of exposure because they indicate the amount of the chemical that actually gets into people (from all environmental sources (e.g., air, soil, water, dust, food) combined, rather than the amount that may get into them." Reports and News An ongoing assessment of the U.S. population's exposure to environmental chemicals using biomonitoring. The first National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (First Report) was issued in March 2001. This Second Report, released in January 2003, presents biomonitoring exposure data for 116 environmental chemicals for the noninstitutionalized, civilian U.S. population over the 2-year period 1999-2000. http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/2nd/pdf/nersummary.pdfBody Burden: The Pollution in People This is the most comprehensive study ever conducted of multiple chemical contaminants in humans. —Blood and urine from nine people were tested for 210 chemicals that occur in consumer products and industrial pollution. We found an average of 91 industrial compounds, pollutants, and other chemicals in the nine volunteers. January, 2003 http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/dls/national_biomonitoring_program.htmMothers' Milk Record levels of toxic fire retardants found in American mothers' breast milk —In the first nationwide tests for chemical fire retardants in the breast milk of American women, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found unexpectedly high levels of these little-known neurotoxic chemicals in every participant tested. September, 2003http://www.ewg.org/reports/mothersmilk/es.php
What's in Your Body's Chemical Cocktail? Dec. 10, 2003 - Charlotte Brody figured she wasn't completely pure. "I knew that dioxins were in every piece of cheese I'd ever eaten," she says. "I knew that mercury was in tuna fish." So when she volunteered samples of her blood and urine for a recent study of chemical contamination in humans, she didn't expect to be too surprised by the results. But Brody was stunned by what turned up in her body fluids. Researchers at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine found evidence of 85 contaminants, including more than two dozen types of PCBs, seven dioxins and -- most shocking to Brody -- the Dow-manufactured insecticide Dursban. High doses of Dursban cause neurological damage in animals and humans, and the federal Environmental Protection Agency has banned its indoor use. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Organochlorine insecticides—-DDT, chlordane and other pesticides. Largely banned in the U.S. Persist for decades in the environment. Accumulate up the food chain, to man. Cause cancer and numerous reproductive effects.
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