{"id":3173,"date":"2010-11-08T15:15:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T20:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2010-11-08T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T20:59:08","slug":"persisting-on-persistent-carcinogens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/08\/persisting-on-persistent-carcinogens\/","title":{"rendered":"Persisting on persistent carcinogens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a public forum tomorrow, sponsored by Cancer Action, on chemicals and cancer, at the McKenney Middle School on State St. in Canton.<\/p>\n<p>We <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/15892\/scientists-raise-concerns-about-persistent-carcinogens\">reported<\/a> on this subject &#8212; POPs, or persistent organic pollutants &#8212; early last summer, and quoted tomorrow evening&#8217;s\u00a0 keynote speaker, Dr. David Carpenter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He\u2019s director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at SUNY Albany. He says these organic pollutants pose special risks because they\u2019re so durable. \u201cThe problem,\u201d says Carpenter, \u201cis they\u2019re persistent and they\u2019re fat soluble. And so they don\u2019t really go away. So if you ate a contaminated meal last night, you\u2019re going to have half those contaminants in your body ten years from now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That story came out when the state Health Department published an Internet-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyhealth.gov\/statistics\/cancer\/environmental_facilities\/mapping\/\">map<\/a> of cancer data by county. Check it out. And listen for more tomorrow on the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a public forum tomorrow, sponsored by Cancer Action, on chemicals and cancer, at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[884,4803],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}