Exposure to BPA may cause permanent fertility defects, Yale researchers find

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 09:56 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that exposure during pregnancy to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastics, causes permanent abnormalities in the uterus of offspring, including alteration in their DNA. The findings were reported in the March issue of Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB J.)...

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