Tag: phthalate
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Research Suggests Phthalates Linked to Child Obesity
A long-term study by the Mount Sinai Medical Center for Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research has reportedly suggested a link between childhood obesity and endocrine disruptors, including phthalates and bisphenol A. Part of a study titled “Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem,” the project followed 520 children ages 6 to 8 for five…
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Concerns Raised About PET in Plastic Containers
Mineral-water bottles made with PET, or polyethylene terephthalate, a chemical used in many food and beverage containers, particularly those marked with the number 1 inside a triangle, have been found to leach an unknown estrogen-mimicking chemical. Martin Wagner & Jörg Oehlmann, “Endocrine Disruptors in Bottled Mineral Water: Total Estrogenic Burden and Migration from Plastic Bottles,” Environmental…
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California Science Panel Considers Substances to Monitor in Humans
The California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program’s Scientific Guidance Panel decided at a December 4-5, 2008, meeting that it would designate diesel exhaust and flame retardants as the first substances the state will monitor in humans under a 2006 law (SB 1379) requiring the establishment of a state biomonitoring program. The panel also reportedly agreed that the…
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Faye Flam, “Male Interrupted,” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 27, 2008
Inquirer staff writer Faye Flam begins her piece on phthalates and possible human health effects by reporting that a Philadelphia surgeon is seeing double the number of baby boys, since he started practice 30 years ago, in need of repairs to their genitalia. Surgeon Howard Snyder hypothesizes that some of them have been exposed to…