Thousands of substances ranked according to potential exposure level

摘要

An overwhelming number of chemicals from household and industrial products are in the environment - and hundreds are in our bodies. But for most of them, scientists have yet to determine whether they cause health problems. Now they've taken the first step towards doing that by estimating which substances people are exposed to the most. Their new method is published in Environmental Science & Technology (doi: 10.1021/es503583j).