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« Return to Health Dialogues episode for Thursday, December 18, 2008

A Sea of Chemicals

Most of us have little idea what chemicals are in the things that we buy. We think government safeguards us, regulating things like lead in toys. That much is true. But what about the more than 80,000 chemicals used in manufacturing today? As it turns out, almost all of them are completely unstudied and unregulated.Guest: Dr. Mike Wilson, PhD, environmental health scientist with the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley..


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