Body Burden Testing for Toxins?

Body burden tests measure levels of environmental toxins accumulating in our bodies via analysis of blood, urine, breast milk and other fluids and tissues. Also called bio-monitoring, the tests can tell us something about the extent of our exposure to various substances, but not necessarily what the effects of this "burden," if any, will be.



The tests became a hot topic in October 2007, after CNN ran a report on a family in California that had them performed back in 2004. Results showed than the two children, then 18 months and five years old, had seven times the exposure to contaminants including the flame retardants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE's) of their parents. PDBEs are known to cause thyroid dysfunction in lab rats. So far, no problems have surfaced in the children, Read more...

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