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Our Environment’s Reality?

U.S. CITIZENS – PESTICIDES IN BODY

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) measure pesticides and other chemicals in the bodies of Americans every few years.
The National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals is a series of ongoing assessments of the U.S. population’s exposure to environmental chemicals using biomonitoring. The Report presents nationally representative and cumulative biomonitoring data gathered from 1999-2000 through 2017-2018.
The Report provides information using individual and pooled blood or urine samples tested by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientists in the Division of Laboratory Sciences. The samples are from people who took part in CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Because of NHANES’ study design, the measurements of chemicals in participants are representative of exposures in the U.S. civilian population.

In the most recent study, CDC tested for 212 chemicals, including 44 pesticides and found most of them in over 85 percent of Americans tested, even though some chemicals such as DDT have not been widely used here since 1972.