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Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 49Environment. Publisher: Wild Matters, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) | Drinking water -- Contamination | Food contamination | Health risk assessment | Irrigation water | Lettuce | Lockheed Martin Corporation | Perchlorates | United States Dept. of Agriculture | United States Environmental Protection Agency | United States Food and Drug Adm | Vegetables | Water pollutionDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Eating lettuce or other vegetables grown in fields irrigated by the Colorado River may expose consumers to a larger dose of toxic rocket fuel than is considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to test data and documents obtained by the Environmental Working Group (EWG)." (WILD MATTERS) This article reveals that "leafy vegetables grown with contaminated irrigation water take up, store and concentrate potentially harmful levels of perchlorate, a thyroid toxin that is the explosive main ingredient of rocket and missile fuel."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Rocket Lettuce, April 2003; pp. 31-34.
"Eating lettuce or other vegetables grown in fields irrigated by the Colorado River may expose consumers to a larger dose of toxic rocket fuel than is considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to test data and documents obtained by the Environmental Working Group (EWG)." (WILD MATTERS) This article reveals that "leafy vegetables grown with contaminated irrigation water take up, store and concentrate potentially harmful levels of perchlorate, a thyroid toxin that is the explosive main ingredient of rocket and missile fuel."
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