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Patent granted for detecting environmentally toxic dioxin-like chemicals
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, January 30th, 2005
XDS consultant, and former XDS laboratory director, Michael Chu and company president George Clark developed rapid methodology to quantify TEQs, a toxic equivalence or a measure of dioxin-like chemical toxicity adopted by the World Health Organization, for this class of toxic chemicals.
Many of the world's most harmful environmental toxins can be characterized into compounds called polyhalogenated diaromatic hydrocarbons (PHDH). These compounds include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), polychlorinated...
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