Toxic contaminants detected in northerners at levels twice as high among general population
Toxic contaminants detected in northerners at levels twice as high among general population The study looked into how people living in remote Indigenous communities were being exposed to these chemicals, which are used in food packaging Share A group of women swim in the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories during a trip with the Dehcho First Nations, a northern Indigenous community where disproportionately high levels of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were detected in blood. Photo: Pat Kane These con...
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