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Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Ph.D. (left), professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and doctoral students Maricarmen Lerma (center) and Abraham Dagda-Torres (right), all from the College of Science at The University of Texas at El Paso, are coauthors of a study that used X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to find that nearly four out of five children’s toys purchased in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez region contain at least one toxic element. The research was published in the journal Environmental Pollution.
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