Baby Teeth Study
STAR is also conducting tests to measure trace levels of radioactivity in
baby teeth collected from children living near Brookhaven. These will be
compared to control samples from Brooklyn and Queens to measure possible
toxic contamination from Brookhaven, which could be linked to apparent
clusters of rare childhood cancer in communities located near the lab, as
well as inordinately high levels of breast and prostate cancer. STAR Issued
an appeal to area parents to provide baby teeth for this study.