Providing Safe Foods: Flooding of farmland does not increase levels of potentially harmful flame retardants in milk

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Today’s solution provides a reassuring message—although potentially harmful flame retardants build up in flooded rivers, that doesn’t translate to harmful levels in milk from cows that consume the grass in these flood-prone areas.

Providing Safe Foods: Flooding of farmland does not increase levels of potentially harmful flame retardants in milk

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