http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. In a sobering study published in the journal Environmental Health, researchers at UC Davis and UCLA measured food-borne toxin exposure in children and adults by pinpointing foods with high levels of toxic compounds and determining how much of these foods were consumed. The researchers found that family members in the study, and preschool children in particular, are at high risk for exposure to arsenic, dieldrin, DDE (a DDT metabolite), dioxins and acrylamide. These compounds have been linked to cancer, developmental disabilities, birth defects and other conditions. However, the study also points to dietary modifications that could mitigate risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-high-exposure-food-borne-toxins.html Health Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:00:10 EST news272037536 (AP) -- Polish health authorities have ordered the withdrawal from the market of more than 230,000 kilograms (500,000 pounds) of pickles, bread and other food suspected of containing industrial salt, the latest development in a scandal raising fears about food safety. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-poland-food-road-salt.html Health Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:35:33 EST news250504510 Environmental toxicants such as dioxins, PCBs, and pesticides can pose a risk for cardiovascular disease. For the first time a link has been demonstrated between atherosclerosis and levels of long-lived organic environmental toxicants in the blood. The study, carried out by researchers at Uppsala University, is being published online this week in ahead of print in the prestigious journal Environmental Health Perspectives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-link-shown-environmental-toxicants-atherosclerosis.html Health Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:03:20 EST news237556982 In the largest cancer study of firefighters ever conducted, research published in this week's 9/11 Special Issue of The Lancet found that New York City firefighters exposed to the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster site were at least 19 percent more likely to develop cancer in the seven years following the disaster as their non-exposed colleagues and up to 10 percent more likely to develop cancer than a similar sample from the general population. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-world-center-exposed-nyc-firefighters-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:44:37 EST news234157456