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Posted Wed Apr 20 2011: from Environmental Health News:
California's poor, Mexican American kids have among world's highest levels of flame retardants http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1303258048
 Mexican American school children in California are contaminated with seven times more flame retardants than children in Mexico and three times more than their own mothers, according to a new study. The 7-year-olds in the Salinas Valley had more of the chemicals in their bodies than almost all other people tested worldwide. University of California scientists warn that the levels they found in the children "present a major public health challenge." Low income, rather than race or ethnicity, is probably the major factor in determining who is highly exposed to these chemicals. Household dust is likely the major source.
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'Doc Michael says:
These kids may be poor but at least they won't catch on fire easily.

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