measuring pollution in human bodies

Yep, I'm STILL at my research! Here are a couple of excerpts, and the website for the entire article:

Scientists begin measuring pollution in human bodies
December 29, 2003 Associated Press
PAUL ELIAS AP Biotechnology Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Davis Baltz shops for organic food and otherwise tries to live as healthy as he can.

So he was shocked to learn that the pollutants collecting inside his body sounded much like a Superfund cleanup site: pesticides, flame retardants and other nasty, man-made chemicals turned up in a recent test.
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Now, in a process called biomonitoring, scientists are sampling urine, blood and mother's milk to catalogue the pollutants accumulating in humans. They call the results ``body burden.'
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Already, several studies have been completed:

- In March, California researchers reported that San Francisco-area women have three to 10 times as much chemical flame retardant in their breast tissue as European or Japanese women.

- Indiana University researchers reported at the same time that levels in Indiana and California women and infants were 20 times higher than those in Sweden and Norway, which recently banned flame retardant.
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