ApocaDocs: NY scientists to study affect of everyday toxins

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Posted Mon Dec 28 2009: from Associated Press:


	NY scientists to study affect of everyday toxins http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1262015579 New York scientists have been awarded a $5 million federal grant to study long-term human exposure to chemicals in the environment. Chemicals can pop up in plastic bottles, toys, medical equipment and pillows and upholstery. Scientists are looking to see if micro-amounts of environmental compounds that humans are exposed to will stay in the body, or have lasting effects. California and Washington state also have been awarded grants. Scientists will take samples of urine, blood and saliva, and even test the breath of subjects... They'll measure how much and what kinds of chemicals are flowing through blood and fat tissue. Some of those chemicals are metabolized and leave the body, while others hang around.

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'Doc Jim says:

I feel like this would have been exciting news ... in the 1950s!