Remember the post about carcinogens in your household? They are in your everyday kitchen equipment like non-stick cookware, in food packaging and in personal care products and they persist for a long time when released into the environment.
These perfluorinated compounds or PFCs seem to be more widespread than previously thought. They have been found in [...]
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Drinking water bottles were taken off from the shelves in Canada in December and caused concerns worldwide. The panic was due to an article in Toxicology Letters which was first published online on November 2007 and in print on January 2008. The article reports on the chemical bisphenol A (PBA) which is used in the [...]
Tags: bisphenol A, carcinogen, dirnking bottles, estrogen, PBA, plastic
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