Endocrine Disrupting Chemical

Early prenatal exposure to a mixture of endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in common consumer products is associated with lower intellectual functioning among boys at age 7 years, according to findings published in Environment International.

A natural gas and oil drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, increases the use of chemicals that have been deemed endocrine disruptors by The Endocrine Society. These endocrine-disrupting chemicals have been linked to birth defects and infertility discovered near drilling sites, according to findings in a recent report published in Endocrinology.