Exclusive: Study finds mixtures of compounds thought to disrupt hormones are present in people at ‘astonishing’ levels
The study team, led by Prof Andreas Kortenkamp, at Brunel University London, said they “were astonished by the magnitude of the hazard index”, the measure of risk from the chemical cocktails. The team were also surprised that BPA was the most worrying chemical, as previous work had focused on phthalates, which are used in plastics.
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