THE adverse effects of gender-bending chemicals released into the environment have been grossly underestimated. A researcher says tests to evaluate the dangers are flawed because they don’t take into account the cumulative effect of mixing the chemicals.
Synthetic substances that mimic oestrogens have been linked to sex changes in animals (see above) and increased levels of breast and testicular cancer in people. That has prompted the industries that use or make the substances to carry out animal tests to confirm what levels could cause ill effects.
“But industry only tests single substances and doesn’t look at the low-level mixtures of them found in the real world,”…
