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- Banned in the U.S. since the early 1970s, synthetic estrogens such as DDT and PCBs continue to poison the environment, partially due to their ongoing use in developing countries and their ability to vaporize and drift across the globe.7
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Jul 20, 2021 · The analyzed literature shows that estrone (E1), estradiol (E2), estriol (E3), and synthetic ethinyloestradiol (EE2) are the most significant in terms of environmental impact. Potential sources of contamination are, among others, livestock farms, slaughterhouses, and large urban agglomerations.
- Konrad Wojnarowski, Paweł Podobiński, Paulina Cholewińska, Jakub Smoliński, Karolina Dorobisz
- 10.3390/ani11072152
- 2021
- Animals (Basel). 2021 Jul; 11(7): 2152.
Environmental Estrogens Found internally, certain compounds are important biological signals; found in the environment, they can become just so much noise John A. McLachlan and Steven F. Arnold n many ways, the story of the pesti-cide DDT is the story of America's attitude toward synthetic chemicals in the environment. DDT was the first of
Feb 1, 2017 · Clearly, major occurrence of estrogens in river water is not a universal phenomenon but largely restricted to the American mid-west, to the eastern sea board of North America, to Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil and Chile, and to countries bordering or close to the Mediterranean basin of Europe, and to Asia and South Australia.
- Muhammad Adeel, Xiaoming Song, Yuanyuan Wang, Dennis Francis, Yuesuo Yang
- 2017
May 1, 1997 · Furthermore, environmental antiestrogens would balance out many of the harmful effects of environmental estrogens . Using calculations of “estrogen equivalents,” he concludes that the exposure level to environmental estrogens is trivial in comparison with estrogen levels used in therapeutic settings and even thousands-fold lower than the ...
- David Feldman
- 1997
Aug 16, 2021 · Another xenoestrogen of interest is the estrogenic pesticide DDT which has been banned in the US for almost 50 years. DDT was a commonly used pesticide sprayed across many agricultural fields and homes, acting as an insect neurotoxin to kill mosquitoes and other insect vectors that carry malaria, typhus, and other insect-borne diseases.
- Xiaoqiang Wang, Desiree Ha, Ryohei Yoshitake, Yin S Chan, David Sadava, Shiuan Chen
- 10.3390/ijms22168798
- 2021
- Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Aug; 22(16): 8798.
Dec 1, 1999 · Environmental estrogens are a particularly prevalent and potentially harmful source of EDCs that have been linked to feminization of wildlife such as fish 1 and reptiles 2, and the increasing...
Jun 6, 2019 · Today, most countries have banned the use of DDT primarily over ecological concerns (Rogan and Chen, 2005). Although its common trade name is DDT, technical grade DDT typically contains a mixture of several isomers with the largest percentage of the mixture being attributed to p,p′-DDT (Harada et al., 2016).
