Science & Service: DR. LINDA BIRNBAUM on Public Health & Environmental Science - Highlights

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“Is this true that we test for fewer than 100 chemicals in water, but in fact, there are thousands that go untested?”

“There are thousands just like there are in air, just like there are in food. We sometimes compartmentalize too much. We forget, but what is food? Food is made up of chemicals. And I think we need to be broader in our understanding because, for example, we all have on us and within us our Microbiomes and we think about the GI bacteria and we now know that if people are obese they have very different microbial content in their gut compared to people who are not obese. And we…