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Researchers Ponder PCB Health Risks
Mike Mitka
JAMA. 2004;292:793.
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Champaign, Ill—For residents across the country, a spate of recent newspaper headlines such as "Are You Eating Cancerous Salmon?" have raised sobering questions about whether pollutants are making fish and other foods unsafe to eat.
The stories focus on polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a chemical mixture that has been linked in animal studies to cancer, liver toxicity, and adverse effects on the immune, reproductive, neurological, and endocrine systems. And new studies are pointing to possible links between PCBs and cardiovascular disease.
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Concerns about potential health risks posed by hot spots of PCBs in southern Lake Michigan and elsewhere remain unresolved. (Photo credit: Ted Grudzinski/AMA)
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HOW MUCH RISK?
But questions remain as to exactly how much risk PCBs present to humans. To search for some of the answers, an international group of researchers gathered here in June for a PCB workshop sponsored by the University of Illinois College . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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