In the 1950s and 1960s, San Francisco bay was heavily polluted with PCBs, a banned group of chemicals once widely used in many industrial products.
PCBs are known to have adverse effects on immune, reproductive, and nervous systems. They cause liver damage, skin problems, and brain damage at high levels. The chemicals are also very persistent, [...]
Tags: Breastfeeding, environmental pollution, gender, PCBs
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The advice as to what we should be eating and what we shouldn?t be eating is getting increasingly complicated. One particular area of confusion is fish. Some fish is good for you, some fish is better for the environment, some fish has lots of mercury and some fish involves messing up the ecosystems. So where [...]
Tags: atlantic, cod, fatty acids, fish, mercury, PCBs, tuna
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