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Fate of phthalic acid esters during composting of both lagooning and activated sludges [PDF]
Among the phthalic acid esters (PAEs) targeted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) as priority pollutants, di-ethyl-hexyl phthalate (DEHP) is the major pollutant identified at high concentration level in lagooning sludge (LS), at
Amir, Soumia +6 more
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Additive mixture effects of estrogenic chemicals in human cell-based assays can be influenced by inclusion of chemicals with differing effect profiles [PDF]
Copyright @ 2012 The Authors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and 85 reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source
Aditya Bhushan Pant +3 more
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The effects of phthalates on the ovary
Phthalates are commonly used as plasticizers in the manufacturing of flexible polyvinyl chloride products. Large production volumes of phthalates and their widespread use in common consumer, medical, building, and personal care products lead to ...
Patrick eHannon, Jodi Anne Flaws
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This analytical method is a validated measurement procedure for the determination of long‐chain phthalates such as diisononyl phthalate, di‐n‐decyl phthalate, diisodecyl phthalate, diundecyl phthalate and didodecyl phthalate present in the workplace air in the gaseous and particulate state.
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Ständige Senatskommission zur Prüfung Gesundheitsschädlicher Arbeitsstoffe +8 more
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A variety of environmentally persistent chemicals, including some phthalate plasticizers, are weakly estrogenic [PDF]
Sewage, a complex mixture of organic and inorganic chemicals, is considered to be a major source of environmental pollution. A random screen of 20 organic man-made chemicals present in liquid effluents revealed that half appeared able to interact with ...
Clark LB +14 more
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Phthalates: toxicology and food safety - a review
Phthalates are organic substances used mainly as plasticisers in the manufacture of plastics. They are ubiquitous in the environment. Although tests in rodents have demonstrated numerous negative effects of phthalates, it is still unclear whether the ...
Přemysl Mikula +2 more
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Background Phthalates exposure and complete edentulism are related to both low socioeconomic status. No study by far has verified if and to what extent these two conditions are related. We aimed to explore their potential association and interplay in the
Alessandro Mengozzi +5 more
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Mind the gap: Can we explain declining male reproductive health with known antiandrogens? [PDF]
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Several countries have experienced rises in cryptorchidisms, hypospadias and testicular germ cell cancer. The reasons for these trends are largely unknown, but Skakkebaek
Andreas Kortenkamp +49 more
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Objective: The data on the association between phthalates and breast cancer risk remains inconsistent. This study aimed to explore the possible mechanism of low-dose exposures of phthalates, including Butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP), di(n-butyl) phthalate ...
Fang-Ping Chen +2 more
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Endocrine disruptors in bottled mineral water : total estrogenic burden and migration from plastic bottles [PDF]
Background, aim, and scope Food consumption is an important route of human exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. So far, this has been demonstrated by exposure modeling or analytical identification of single substances in foodstuff (e.g ...
Oehlmann, Jörg, Wagner, Martin
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