I don't think people want necessarily chemicals in their food that are going to get into their body and maybe cause health effects or last a long, long time in the environment, but I don't think people know that.

Linda Birnbaum

Linda Silber Birnbaum is an American toxicologist, microbiologist and the current director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, as well as the National Toxicology Program, positions to which she was appointed on January 18, 2009. She also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health and as a member of the editorial board of Environment International.

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