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Toxic Weed Killer Found in 1 Out of 3 Americans, Study Shows

US testing reveals 41 percent of groundwater wells for public consumption contain common pesticides

Toxic Weed Killer Found in 1 Out of 3 Americans, Study Shows
Farm tractor spraying pesticides over green vineyard field. Napa Valley, Napa County, California, on April 18, 2019.bonandbon/Shutterstock
Autumn Spredemann
Autumn Spredemann
8/26/2022|Updated: 8/31/2022
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One of the cheapest, most widely used weed killers in the United States has turned up within about a third of people who participated in a large study released this year by researchers at George Washington University.

Out of a pool of 14,395 people, roughly 33 percent carried detectable levels of the common herbicide 2,4-D in their urine. Researchers discovered noteworthy traces of the chemical ranging from 17 percent at the beginning of the study in 2001-2002, to almost 40 percent 10 years later.
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