mycotoxins
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Nutrition & Food
They Drew Blood From 719 Women and Children in Rural Bangladesh. Every Sample Had at Least Two Mold Toxins.
Every one of 712 whole-blood samples from a cohort of 719 rural Bangladeshi women and children carried at least two mold toxins, and 84 percent of participants carried three or more, including one the liver converts into a carcinogen.
Nutrition & FoodAll 719 Blood Samples Carried Mold Toxins, and the Youngest Children Carried the Riskiest Kidney Dose
Researchers tested the blood of 719 women and young children in rural Bangladesh. Ochratoxin A turned up in every single one, and modeling put up to 99 percent of the children over the line toxicologists use to flag a cancer-risk exposure.