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Un nuevo estudio realizado por científicos del Grupo de Trabajo Ambiental (EWG) determina que el consumo de una sola porción de peces de agua dulce por año podría ser igual a tomar un mes de agua potable mezclada con el “químico para siempre” PFOS en niveles altos que pueden ser dañinos. Los investigadores calcularon que comer un pez en un año equivalía a ingerir agua con PFOS a 48 partes por billón, o ppt, durante un mes.

EWG’s first major break was born through radical team coordination – the science was all there to show that kids’ growing bodies are exposed to too many harmful chemicals, which affect them in a way that’s different from the way they harm the adult body. 

The Science Investigations team at EWG does not work in a remote lab, isolated from the teams doing the decidedly unscientific work of policy recommendations and public communications. From the very start, they consider how their research will move through the real world and resonate with the people affected. 

Below you’ll find the 58 conventional and 15 organic baby foods EWG tested for this report. They’re listed by brand and product type sampled for the study and the date they were purchased.

You can scroll from left to right to see the total concentration of pesticides, if any, detected in each sample. These total detections are represented in a separate column in parts per billion, or ppb.

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Filling the gaps in government oversight is what EWG does. So over the lifetime of the organization, they’ve surveyed the political landscape, communicated urgency to the cosmetic-buying public, educated the media and made inroads wherever possible to improve public health outcomes.