Sentences with phrase «chemical endocrine disrupters»

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While we are all affected by these chemicals, known as endocrine disrupters, your baby is particularly vulnerable.Because hormones orchestrate development.

Most chemical sunscreens contain the toxic chemical Oxybenzone, and endocrine disrupter which can be absorbed into the bloodstream.

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

Vom Saal has spent several decades researching the potent effects of everyday low - dose exposure to chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA) that are known as endocrine disrupters.

Of particular concern are a group of toxic chemicals called endocrine - disrupters, which interfere with reproductive hormones and may cause sterility.

Chemical studies should be complemented with bioassays that use living cells to detect endocrine disrupters, Vandenberg adds.

One of the biggest downsides to helpful industrial products like, say, plastic, or female contraceptives, is that they contain bad chemicals called endocrine disrupters.

In this report the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) explores the endocrine disrupter hypothesis, which asserts that certain (primarily man - made) chemicals act as, or interfere with, human hormones (specifically estrogens) in the body and thus cause a range of defects and diseases related to the endocrine system.

«Many of them are endocrine disrupters that mess up our hormones — we really don't want these chemicals in our bodies.»

Plus, many chemical sunscreens are loaded with harmful endocrine disrupters.

Developed last year, this relatively new certification for nonfood items like household products, skin care, cleaners, etc., names a product safe when third - party scientists find that it's free of chemicals thought to harm human health (meaning no carcinogens, endocrine disrupters, fire retardants, or VOCs allowed).

We are exposed to hormone disrupting chemicals (endocrine disrupters) on a daily basis by the air we breathe, the food we eat, plastics, cosmetics, body products, cleaning supplies, pesticides, etc..

Endocrine disrupters are not the only worrying chemicals that ordinary consumers are exposed to in everyday life.

Rather ominously, phthalates are known as endocrine disrupters, meaning that they can change the body's production of the sex hormones testosterone and estrogen and, in animal studies, alter the onset of puberty in mouse pups exposed to high levels of the chemicals in utero.

Housed in a fine leather case, each lipstick is refillable and made without perfume, endocrine disrupters, and other harsh chemicals.

These neurotoxic chemicals may harm the developing human nervous system, according to the European Food Safety Authority, and some are suspected endocrine disrupters.