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Hormone-disrupting phthalates can be found in everything from plastics and household goods to personal care products. Studies have shown they may be harmful to women’s reproductive systems.
A byproduct formed during water disinfection disrupts hormones that regulate reproduction in female mice, found Illinois professor Lori Raetzman
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'A serious threat': Plastics we use every day are leaching hazardous chemicals, report says Doyle Rice, USA TODAY More bad news about plastic. According to a scientific report issued Tuesday, the plastics we commonly use contain and leach hazardous chemicals, including some that threaten human health, especially the body's endocrine system. "Many of the plastics we use every day at home and work are exposing us to a harmful cocktail of endocrine-disrupting chemicals," the report’s lead author, Jodi Flaws of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said in a statement...
E-Mail WASHINGTON, DC--Plastics contain and leach hazardous chemicals, including endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that threaten human health. An authoritative new report, Plastics, EDCs, & Health, from the Endocrine Society and the IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network), presents a summary of international research on the health impacts of EDCs and describes the alarming health effects of widespread contamination from EDCs in plastics. EDCs are chemicals that disturb the body's hormone systems and can cause cancer, diabetes, reproductive disorders, and neurological impai...