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Did You Know... |
Did you know these foreign chemicals are commonly
found in human fat? |
COMPOUND |
POSSIBLE
COMMON SOURCES |
FREQUENCY
OF OBSERVATION |
Styrene |
styrene based cups |
100% |
1, 4-Dichlorobenzene |
house deodorizers, mothballs |
100% |
| Xylene |
gasoline, paints, lacquers |
100% |
| Ethylphenol OCDD |
drinking water, herbicides, wood treatments, autoexhaust,
incinerators |
100% |
| 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 HpCDD |
wood treatments, autoexhaust, herbicides, incinerators |
89% |
| HxCDD |
gasoline |
96% |
| Benzene |
drinking water |
96% |
| Chlorobenzene |
gasoline, produce |
96% |
| Ethylbenzene p, pl-DDE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, HpCDF |
wood treatments, auto exhaust, herbicides |
93% |
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| This information was reported by the EPA's, Nations Human Adipose Tissue
Survey (NHATS), the nation's longest running program for monitoring human exposure to
potentially toxic substances that persist in the environment. |
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