Is Drycleaning the Next Big Health Scare?

摘要

The folks who bring you the health crisis of the month now have a new candidate—drycleaning. It may seem strange that it should be added to a list that includes coffee, Chinese food, saccharin, silicon, Olestra and a host of other familiar products. After all, the chemical used by most drycleaners, perchloroethylene, has been studied far more and far longer than most substances to which we are exposed.