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Life Sciences => The Environment => Topic started by: Gaia on 30/09/2006 12:03:31

Title: Schwarzenegger OKs chemical exposure research
Post by: Gaia on 30/09/2006 12:03:31
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - California will become the first U.S. state to try to measure how its residents are absorbing chemicals from common products under a "bio-monitoring" bill signed on Friday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

State health officers will use blood, urine, tissue, hair and breast milk samples collected voluntarily from a cross-section of California, taking into account ethnic, age, income and geographic differences, to gauge levels of exposure.

more: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/29092006/80-132/schwarzenegger-oks-chemical-exposure-research.html

...and they're not talking about 'implants' [;)]

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