Chemical cocktail 'risk to boys'

[hofelina]

BBC
Chemicals found in many food, cosmetic and cleaning products pose a real threat to male fertility, a leading scientist has warned.

Professor Richard Sharpe, of the Medical Research Council, warned these hormone-disrupting chemicals were "feminising" boys in the womb.

He linked them to raising rates of birth defects and testicular cancer and falling sperm counts.

There is evidence that male reproductive health is deteriorating, with malformations of the penis becoming more common, rates of testicular cancer rising, and sperm counts falling.

It is thought that all these conditions - collectively called Testicular Dysgenesis Syndrome (TDS) - are linked to disruption of the male sex hormone testosterone.
In addition, de-masculinisation effects due to chemical pollutants in the environment has been reported in many species of wildlife.

The Food Standards Agency and the Health Protection Agency are also currently involved in work relevant to this issue.

[Lorenzo]

My sister, Lorraine Lucino, did a research on this in the biology-environmental science laboratory at Allegheny College's Department of Life Sciences on this (she is a Molecular Cellular Geneticist--in specialty). That correlates with this message. There is an extensive study about chemical-inducing sex changes in intrauterine embryological period.

Yes, I agree with this thread.