Monona Rossol Associations between socioeconomic status and environmental toxicant concentrations in adults in the USA: NHANES 2001–2010

Toxins in Our Bodies

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 26, 2013

Industrial hygienist and chemist Monona Rossol discusses a study showing that rich people and poor people have different toxic substances in their bodies. She's the author of Pick Your Poison: How Our Mad Dash to Chemical Utopia Is Making Lab Rats of Us All.

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