Study Finds Increasing Chemical Exposures For Pregnant Women

A new study touted as the largest biomonitoring project to date, targeting over 100 chemicals in American pregnant women, identified more than one-third of those substances in urine samples from a majority of the subjects, often at levels higher than previously known -- results they say correspond to recent regulations and resulting shifts in industry practice. Researchers at the University of California San Francisco’s Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) and Johns Hopkins University’s public health school analyzed...