Toxic chromium found in Chicago drinking water- Detected levels are more than 11 times higher than California’s new standard

Toxic chromium found in Chicago drinking water- Detected levels are more than 11 times higher than California’s new standard by Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, August 6, 2011.
Federal officials are being nudged to act by California, which took a three-year look at the science and last month established the nation’s first “public health goal” to limit hexavalent chromium…. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment defines the goal, 0.02 parts per billion, as an amount that reduces the risk of developing cancer to a point considered negligible by most scientists and physicians.