A study found that people think of pollution coming from big environmental disasters, and not daily exposure to chemicals from carpeting, furniture, cosmetics and other things we buy (Source: Immanuel Giel at Wikimedia Commons)
A new study finds people are
surprised to learn how much of their
exposure to chemicals comes from the
things they buy. Rebecca Williams reports:
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A new study finds people are
surprised to learn how much of their
exposure to chemicals comes from the
things they buy. Rebecca Williams reports:
In this study, researchers showed women the results of tests done in their
homes. The researchers sampled dust and they also measured chemicals in the
women’s bodies. On average, they found about 20 different chemicals.
Rebecca Gasior-Altman is the lead author of the study in the Journal of Health
& Social Behavior.
“Participants were surprised about where these chemicals were coming from
and did not anticipate that they were likely coming from products they brought
into their homes every day and used on their bodies unknowingly and were not
from big industrial dumps.”
She says, before, the women had thought of pollution coming from big
environmental disasters, and not daily exposure to chemicals from carpeting,
furniture, cosmetics and other things we buy.
For The Environment Report, I’m Rebecca Williams.