Many U.S. residents carry toxic pesticides in their bodies above government assessed "acceptable" levels, [...]"None of us choose to have hazardous pesticides in our bodies," said Kristin Schafer of PANNA and lead author of the report. "Yet CDC found pesticides in 100% of the people who had both blood and urine tested. The average person in this group carried a toxic cocktail of 13 of the 23 pesticides we analyzed."
i am going to be less lazy about washing, no, scrubbing my veggies in hot water from now on!
Posted by sciencegrrl at June 1, 2004 06:24 PM