Sentences with phrase «environmental endocrine disrupters»

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A threefold increase can not be genetic, it is most likely environmental, and many of us believe it is due to endocrine disrupters.

Beefed up He and his colleague David Cwiertny, an environmental engineer at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, decided to find out whether the breakdown products of endocrine disrupters could be boosting their environmental impact.

The study, which is financed by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and the Danish Centre on Endocrine Disrupters, is described in detail in a scientific article in the publication Society of Toxicology: Multiple Endocrine Disrupting Effects in Rats Perinatally Exposed to Butylparaben (pdf).

There currently is a trend in most environmental sectors (i.e. air, water, and soil) toward decreasing concentrations of many environmental contaminants, including several that are suspected of being endocrine disrupters.

Just as women face environmental pollutants and dietary obstacles, men deal with endocrine disrupters, too.

The authors say that there needs to be more research into the possible causes for the decline in semen concentration and percentages of normally formed sperm, and that environmental stresses, including endocrine disrupters, must be considered.