"Everybody's plastic": So what?

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue , 2014, Pages 180-

  Erren, Thomas C ^a   Meyer Rochow, V Benno ^b   Groß, J Valérie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Basic research; Bisphenol A BPA ; Endocrine disruption; Epidemiology; Epigenetic disruption; Food web; Plastics; Public health

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; PLASTIC; BENZHYDRYL DERIVATIVE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

BIOACCUMULATION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FOOD WEB; GENE DISRUPTION; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; HUMANS; PHENOLS;

EID: 84915785548     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2014.07.079     Document Type: Letter

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