News 5 Investigators asked the Ohio Department of Health if people should be spending hundreds of dollars on these urine tests and what the results mean.
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Ohio’s top doctor says the urine tests people in East Palestine have been getting back aren’t reliable for specific exposure to vinyl chloride.
Health questions are weighing heavily on people, including Kristina Ferguson, Shelby Walker and Eric Cozza. He says urine tests don't record the presence of vinyl chloride but rather a breakdown product called thiodiglycolic acid. "This test is non-specific; it does not reliably indicate specific exposure to vinyl chloride. So even if you have a relatively high test result of thiodiglycolic acid, it could be from a variety of sources," he said.
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