CDC Finds Chemicals in the Likeliest Places

By ACSH Staff — Dec 11, 2009
The CDC released its Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, a list of chemicals found in blood and urine samples collected from participants in CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

The CDC released its Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, a list of chemicals found in blood and urine samples collected from participants in CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

"As we've often said and apparently it bears repeating the fact that a chemical is present in the human body is not only not an indicator of risk, it's to be expected," says ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross. "With today's testing, you can find just about anything in anything. Our sophisticated detection methods can now find any substance in concentrations as small as parts per trillion like a drop in an ocean."