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And then gradually somebody said,
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"Boy, if it's in the wildlife,
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it might be in humans too."
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And gradually, people started testing breast milk.
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Breast milk became the tissue of choice in order to understand
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whether or not chemicals were being transmitted transgenerationally.
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And also, it's easy to collect, it is relatively inexpensive to store.
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And here's a good example of DDT found in different nations
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around the world in breast milk in the 1970s.
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So human tissue testing became really an important way to
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figure out what people were exposed to.
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And if you know that you find it in somebody's body,