What are chemical pollution doing to our our bodies? It’s a well timed query on condition that final week, folks in Philadelphia cleared grocery cabinets of bottled water after a poisonous leak from a chemical plant spilled right into a tributary of the Delaware River, a supply of consuming water for 14 million folks. And it was solely final month {that a} prepare carrying a set of different hazardous supplies derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, unleashing an unknown amount of poisonous chemical compounds.
There’s little question that we’re polluting the planet. As a way to learn how these pollution is likely to be affecting our personal our bodies, we have to work out how we’re uncovered to them. Which chemical compounds are we inhaling, consuming, and digesting? And the way a lot? The sphere of exposomics, which seeks to review our publicity to pollution, amongst different components, might assist to present us some much-needed solutions. Learn the total story.
—Jessica Hamzelou
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