Report

By: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Date: 2001

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals. Atlanta, March 2001.

About the Organization: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is the premiere authority on U.S. health matters, especially those pertaining to infectious disease. The federal agency began in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center, with the mission to fight malaria and typhus in the Deep South. The CDC, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, includes a dozen centers and institutes across the United States.

Introduction

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