Posted on 19/09/06
Fungicide exposure lasts generations
Researchers in the United States have discovered that a widely used fungicide is such a potent hormone disruptor that exposures are able to cause diseases over multiple generations. In studies using pregnant rats, the fungicide vinclozolin was able to induce breast tumours and alter testicles in their pups when they reached adulthood, and more remarkably, cause the same abnormalities in the next three generations of the rodents, even though these animals were never directly exposed to the compound.
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