Alarm over gender-bending chemical

[nosmokes]

So not only are we screwing things up by flushing all sorts of hormones into the watersheds from our food system that we don't need, but we also have endocrine disruptors in detergents?WTF. Are we really that obsessed w/ whiter whites and brighter colors that we need to make hermaphroditic fish to get 'em? Criminy.
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original-newsday

Alarm over gender-bending chemical
BY DELTHIA RICKS
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June 6, 2007

An unusual mix of public health advocates, environmentalists and laundry workers joined yesterday in a petition demanding that federal authorities ban a chemical additive found in some household detergents and other cleaning agents.

The petition, which was submitted to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, also called for studies of human risks related to the dirt-lifting agents called nonylphenol ethoxylates, or NPEs.


Studies have shown NPEs to be potent gender-benders, believed to be responsible for transforming male fish into females in waterways worldwide. Marine scientists at Stony Brook University say NPEs are the likely culprit in the decline of male winter flounder in Jamaica Bay.
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