Study Finds Even Low Levels of Benzene Can Cause Health Problems

Research by the University of California-Berkeley, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Chinese version of CDC has discovered that workers exposed to low levels of benzene experience low blood cell counts compared to non-exposed workers.The study was conducted in 2000 and 2001 in Tianjin, China, among 250 workers exposed to low benzene levels in shoe manufacturing facilities, UC-Berkeley reports. Researchers compared the workers' blood with 140 control workers in clothing factor