A new interactive database, including a timeline showing how human fetuses develop, displays scientific data about controversial chemicals in a graphic way
Colborn is a professor emeritus of zoology at the University of Florida. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she was a scientist at the World Wildlife Fund, where she noticed that various scientists were finding evidence that chemicals in the environment could act like hormones and skew animals' development.
This article originally ran at Environmental Health News, a news source published by Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit media company.
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Add CommentFDA to update public on BPA later this month: http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/4717#more-4717
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisFDA to update public on BPA later this month: http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/4717#more-4717
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIn the past year, there have been more and more articles relating to BPA and Phtlates. There are even more issues than just endocrine damage, for example many beverage products, and food products are manufactured in plastics. Much research in the laboratory are carried out in plastic vessels, test tubes, petri dishes, and various types of cell culture. The use of which could skew laboratory results. This could possibly affect the recovery of potentially pathogenic microorganisms in the laboratory, by affecting their potential recovery. It might also explain why the use of certain culture media are more condusive to culture media recovery over others.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisPharmaceutical laboratories also perform microbiological testing on their various medications, and they use plastic identification systems. Other types of highly specific research could be affected by the efficacy of a drug even in the pharmaceutical laboratories. themselves. Millions of Americans drink bottle water every day. Could BPa be a serious problem in terms of the number one killer; heart disease, diabetes, and asthma?
Should we wait for another twenty-years for another long-term study?
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