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According to a report, a common chemical used to dry clean clothes may be fueling the rise of the world's fastest-growing brain disorder - Parkinson's disease. Trichloroethylene (TCE) has been used to decaffeinate coffee, degrease metal, and dry clean clothes for the past 100 years. Since the 1970s, food and pharmaceutical industries have been outlawed, but it is still used in several states in household cleaners, aerosol cleaning chemicals, paint removers, spray adhesives, carpet cleaners, and spot removers. On the back of years of growing evidence, a review of existing studies has connected the drug to Parkinson's. While its use has been slowly phased out, TCE can still be found in products for spot dry cleaning