Rebecca Ruiz, 01.21.10, 04:00 PM EST

Everyone has heard about BPA. How many other potentially nasty chemicals may be in your body?

Concern is heating up over whether common industrial chemicals found in plastics and other consumer goods could be harming our kids.

The Food and Drug Administration made headlines when it said last week that it would review the safety of Bisphenol A, an industrial chemical commonly used in plastic bottles and food containers. It is worried that the chemical might have subtle but deleterious effects on the neurological and reproductive development of kids.

For years the chemical has been the subject of controversy over whether it can harm people. Some studies have linked it to abnormal brain and reproductive organ development in animals while others have shown little evidence that is harmful in the small doses that are likely to be ingested by humans. Other adverse health effects to which it has been linked include erectile dysfunction and heart disease in humans and early onset of puberty in female rats.

In Depth: 10 Chemicals You Should Worry About

But BPA is just one of hundreds of industrial chemicals that may be in your blood or urine right now. A report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2009 found detectable levels of a total of 212 chemicals in blood or urine samples from 2,400 people nationwide. These included the agricultural pesticide atrazine, the gas additive Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and the coal and petroleum byproduct benzene. Little is known about the human health effects of most of the chemicals. (more…)