CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLA EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project designed to examine the effect on human health of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in food, is now up and running. The CASCADE (chemicals as contaminants in the food chain) network hopes to use its discoveries to increase public awareness of the problem and "promote better decision making among both consumers and policy makers regarding food" said a European Commission note. It added that by interfering with the distribution of hormones around the body, endocrine-disrupting chemical residues have been linked to ...
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