Scientists rank thousands of substances according to potential exposure level
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 10:50
in Health & Medicine
An overwhelming number of chemicals from household and industrial products are in the environment – and hundreds are in our bodies. But for most of them, scientists have yet to determine whether they cause health problems. Now they've taken the first step toward doing that by estimating which substances people are exposed to the most. Their new method is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.