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Studies are finding that when some chemicals are mixed with plastics, other chemicals are being released. As a result of an error committed by a temporary employee in a lab at Case Reserve University, the geneticist found that the eggs of mice used in studies had abnormalities present.

Chemicals known as phthalates are found in hair sprays, detergents, deodorants, shampoos, soaps, plastic bags, food packaging, etc. Now that scientists have sophisticated tests, they picked up minute amounts of these chemicals in the urine of people who were involved in a national health study. If these are in the urine of adults, what is happening to developing fetuses or in the young child?

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