IT MAKES for uncomfortable reading, but a review of 900 studies involving humans and rodents has produced a comprehensive list of chemicals in our food, air and water that may cause breast cancer.
At least 29 of them are produced in the US in large amounts, and while many of these chemicals have been examined in the past, we still know relatively little about their effects, says Ruthann Rudell of the Silent Spring Institute in Newton, Massachusetts, who led the research. Of the 216 chemicals identified, 73 have been documented in consumer products or as contaminants in food, and a…
