EDCs are ubiquitous contaminants in our environment as they can be found in everyday products, such as in plastic bottles, toys, cosmetics, electronics, textiles and even in food as pesticide residues and as additives in food contact materials. The chemicals used in various products and materials leak and migrate to the environment reaching also us, human beings.
“To study effects of these chemicals in mixtures, we used real-life exposure data from the Swedish SELMA pregnancy cohort to see which chemicals the mothers and their children were exposed to, and identified EDC mixtures in prenatal urine and blood that were associated with adverse health outcomes in the children as a first step,” explains Carl-Gustaf Bornehag, Professor in Public Health Sciences at Karlstad University, Sweden.
“Based on the chemicals measured in mothers’ serum and urine, we established reference chemical mixtures in the project. They were then tested in experimental models for potential adverse effects in terms of growth and metabolism, neurodevelopment and sexual development,” he continues.
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