A Banned Carcinogen Is Still in Our Food Chain

PBDEs accumulate as you travel up the food web — eventually reaching the apex predator: us.

Today I’m going to tell you about a chemical that might cause cancer — one I suspect you haven’t heard of before.

These types of stories usually end with a call for regulation — to ban said chemical or substance — but, in this case that has already happened. This new carcinogen I’m telling you about is actually an old chemical. And it has not been manufactured or legally…