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House dust from 35 countries reveals our global toxic contaminant exposure and health risk

  • Written by: Cynthia Faye Isley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Science, Macquarie University
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Everyone’s home gets dusty, but is yours the same as house dust in China or the US? Researchers around the world have united to capture the world’s first trans-continental data on household dust.

People from 35 countries vacuumed their homes and sent their dust to universities in different countries, where it was tested for...

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