Study Shows Drinking Water Contaminated With Potent Estrogen

wateronline.com | Mar. 31, 2009 (News Report)

these chemicals are potent in vivo and result in an increased development of embryos in the New Zealand mud snail. These findings, which show for the first time that substances leaching out of plastic food packaging materials act as functional estrogens, are published in Springer's journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 5, 2009

Sexual changes due to contaminated water, and in particular due to water in plastic bottles is given more scientific support.

Think outside the bottle.

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