Environmental tobacco smoke, other public exposures, decline, reports CDC
Levels of lead have dropped dramatically, exposure to second-hand smoke is down and most women are not burdened by unsafe levels of mercury, according to the latest U.S. government survey on chemical exposures, reported by Reuters.
The third National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (found on the Internet at http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/), released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, details 148 different chemicals found in the blood and urine of 2,400 volunteers.