Over 90 per cent of us residents carry a cocktail of pesticides in them, according to the Third National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals released by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc) on July 21, 2005.
The cdc bio-monitoring program tested the blood and urine of thousands of subjects across the country for 148 chemicals, 43 of them pesticides
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/usa-s-body-burden
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/nicki-kindersley
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pesticides
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/women
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/child-health
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ddt
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/united-states-america-us
