Sentences with phrase «suspected endocrine disrupting chemical»

Phthalates are a suspected endocrine disrupting chemical and have been linked to an increasing number of reproductive health impacts at low dose exposures, and exposure to building materials containing phthalates has been correlated with asthma and related allergy impacts.

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Scientists have suspected that exposure early in life to BPA and certain other chemicals that disrupt the action of hormones, called endocrine disruptors, may promote obesity in adulthood, but the exact cause is unknown.

«Recently, the attention of scientists has been attracted to endocrine - disrupting chemicals (EDCs), compounds that are suspected of promoting the development of various metabolic disorders via their capacity to impact hormonal and metabolic signaling pathways,» said lead author Shane Regnier, a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago's Committee for Molecular Metabolism & Nutrition.

A series of economic papers released in 2015 and 2016 estimating the burden of diseases and associated costs attributable to exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in the U.S. and EU are as flawed and immaterial to public health decision - making as many experts first suspected, according to a thorough and rigorous critique of the underlying methodology used to generate the cost estimates published this month in the online version of the influential, peer - reviewed journal Archives of Toxicology.

PFOA and its replacements are suspected to belong to a large class of artificial compounds called endocrine - disrupting chemicals; these compounds, which include chemicals used in the production of pesticides, plastics and gasoline, interfere with human reproduction and metabolism and cause cancer, thyroid problems and nervous - system disorders.