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A “Trojan Horse” for Toxic Chemicals
Regulation of toxic substances has long exempted synthetic chemicals made of large molecules believed too big to escape products to cause harm. A new study shows how dangerous that assumption is.
By Liza Gross
Five years ago, an international team of scientists compiled the first global inventory of commercially available chemicals with sobering results: they identified three times as many chemicals on the market than previously estimated, driven by the explosive growth of petrochemical production over the past several decades.