Microbiologist Says BPA Seen Causing Disease Generations Later
Monday, January 28, 2013 - 00:00
in Biology & Nature
A group of researchers say they have shown environmental toxicants can negatively affect as many as three generations of an exposed animal's offspring. Washington State University scientists led by molecular biologist Michael Skinner says he found reproductive disease and obesity in the descendants of rats exposed to the plasticizer bisephenol-A, or BPA, as well DEHP and DBP, plastic compounds known as phthalates. In the journal Reproductive Toxicology, they report the first observation of cross-generation disease from a widely used hydrocarbon mixture the military refers to as JP8. read more