

Although the controversial plastic ingredient bisphenol-A, used in canned foods and baby bottles, is certainly the poster child for endocrine disruptors' ubiquity, it is merely one of many. The pesticide atrazine, banned in the European Union but still widely used in the U.S., is also a potent endocrine disruptor, as is the chemical oxybenzone, one of the most common ingredients in U.S.-sold sunscreen, though it too is banned in the E.U.



Their conclusions:
  1. BPA and chemicals like it do indeed pose an increased cancer risk - that's in addition to the reproductive and metabolic risks they represent. And these chemicals represent a real and potent threat to the health of pregnant women and their fetuses.
  2. The complexity of these chemicals and their interactions is so great that we don't even have the tools to determine what they're really doing to us. We truly are lab rats in a worldwide experiment.
The researchers conclude that there is more than enough evidence to support "rapid action to diminish these harmful environmental exposures."
