A groundbreaking new technology has been launched on Wednesday that will enable the general public around the world to find out their long-term exposure to pesticides for the first time, The Detox Project reported in a press announcement from Los Angeles.

The Detox Project, working alongside pesticide testing experts Kudzu Science, is enabling the public to find out their long-term exposure to a range of the most used pesticides in homes and in agriculture, using new and improved mass spectrometry hair testing technology.

The Detox Project Director, Henry Rowlands, stated Wednesday; “Hair testing has been used in forensic science for the last 30 years and we are helping to bring this expertise in to the public pesticide testing world. Hair has a memory and this will help our knowledge of long-term pesticide exposure to change forever.”

It is only recently that new developments in laboratory technology and science has enabled pesticides to be tested accurately in hair.