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Article: SURVEY TO REVEAL TOXIC SUBSTANCES IN BODY.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 21, 2001
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Byline: Scripps Howard
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will take a major step today toward answering the question: How polluted are people?
In a first-of-its-kind survey, the centers tested blood and urine samples given by 5,000 Americans in 1999 for 28 toxic substances: 14 heavy metals, including lead, mercury, cadmium, beryllium and uranium; six kinds of metabolites, which reveal exposure to 28 pesticides; seven kinds of phthalates, which are used in the manufacture of plastics and other consumer products, and cotinine, a byproduct of secondhand tobacco smoke.
Since the petrochemical industry started around World War II, ...