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May 28, 2019 · 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 31, 2012 · Now, several new studies are adding to the evidence that estrogen-mimicking pesticides and industrial chemicals may increase women’s risk of uterine and ovarian diseases – helping to solidify a...
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May 1, 2012 · The prevalence of autoimmune diseases has significantly increased over the recent years. It has been proposed that this epidemiological evidence could be in part attributable to environmental estrogens, compounds that display estrogen-like activity and are ubiquitously present in the environment.
- Cecilia Chighizola, Pier Luigi Meroni
- 2012
Besides the EPA screening program, the United Nations Environment Programme is pursuing a multinational effort to manage "persistent organic pollutants," including DDT and PCBs, which, though banned in the United States, are still used elsewhere and can persist in the environment and be transported long-distance.
Sep 7, 2000 · Recently, a new class of estrogens that is abundant in the environment (in industrial chemicals, pesticides, and surfactants) has been recognized. Some of these estrogenic chemicals (which are a large subgroup of endocrine disrupters) have also been shown to influence the immune system.
- Sattar Ansar Ahmed
- 2000
synthetic estrogens. This came in the form of diethylstilbestrol, or DBS. DES was produced in 1938 in London by Sir Charles Dodds and was the first syn-thetic agent specifically designed to have estrogenic activity. Like many of the environmental estrogens, DES is not structurally similar to natural es-trogens. This landmark study in phar-
Sep 25, 2014 · The now-banned herbicide was a mixture of 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) and 2,4,5-T (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), and it was later shown that 2,4,5-T was contaminated with small amounts of TCDD . In 2004, the latest update of the Veterans and Agent Orange report of the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine (IOM) claimed there was enough evidence of an association between ...
