In the News

Plastics Pose Threat to Human Health

USA Today (McLean, Va., Dec. 16) – According to a scientific report issued Tuesday, the plastics we commonly use contain and leach hazardous chemicals, including some that threaten human health, especially the body’s endocrine system. “Many of the plastics we use every day at home and work are exposing us to a harmful cocktail of endocrine-disrupting chemicals,” says lead author Jodi Flaws, a professor of comparative biosciences at Illinois.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/16/plastics-threaten-human-health-leach-chemicals-report/3905027001/

Also in:

* Science Daily (Dec. 16)
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201215131242.htm