Scientists find 42 never-before-seen chemicals in pregnant women and their babies

The HillMarch 24, 2021News
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A study has found evidence of dozens of synthetic chemicals previously undetected in humans in the blood of pregnant women and their newborns. 

Researchers from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) collected the blood of 30 pregnant women, along with samples from their umbilical cords, and analyzed them using high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) to identify human-made chemicals in the blood.