Mexican American school children in California’s Salinas Valley are contaminated with seven times more flame retardants than children in Mexico and three times more than their own mothers, according to a new scientific study published by Environmental Health Perspectives.
The 7-year-olds in the low-income farm community had more of the chemicals in their bodies than almost all other people tested worldwide. Household dust, contaminated with flame retardants released by old furniture, is likely the major source of their exposure.
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