This report in Salon covers “a new study published by researchers at Rutgers University” about how “everyday plastic pollution could be endocrine-disrupting.”
As the report recounts, “[p]reviously, research suggested that chemical additives used to improve plastics, like bisphenol-A (or BPA), were potentially having all kinds of disruptive effects on human hormones.” But now the “new study suggests that even plastic without BPA can have comparable endocrine-disrupting effects.”
An important aspect of the methodology was that “the researchers found a way to successfully aerosolize the particles so they could see what happened to them when inhaled” since “this is a common method of absorption into the body.”
Read the full report here.
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