A GRANDMOTHER is heading to Brussels next week to protest at the number of man-made chemicals found in her bloodstream.

Margo Foulds made the alarming discovery after taking part in a Worldwide Fund for Nature and Women's Institute-run test last year in which people were screened for chemicals to see how many had made their way into the human body.

Retired nurse Margo, 68, was found to have 27 such chemicals in her blood, including the banned pesticide DDT, which was outlawed in the UK at the end of the 1960s.

Now the mother-of-one and grandmother-of-one is to join scores of others at a protest outside the EU parliament in Belgium in the run-up to a vote on the regulation of man-made chemicals by EU bosses due to be held later this year.

Margo, of Dean Lane, Winchester, said: "I think the biggest concern is what these chemicals might be doing to us now and what will happen to our children and grandchildren in years to come if tougher regulations aren't introduced.

"Many of these chemicals will be up for re-regulation later this year, and while we know we can make man-made chemicals safe and test them properly, expense may prevent this happening."