FRENCH PARLIAMENTARY REPORT CALLS FOR ENDOCRINE DISRUPER ACTION
September 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A REPORT from the French senate's Office for the Evaluation of Science and Technologies has claimed hormone system-linked illness has grown sharply in France, and is calling for immediate action to reduce the release of endocrine disrupting chemicals. Noting that cancers have increased by 35% and 43% respectively in men and women since 1980, the report claims "a credible link between...these diseases and...substances that disturb the endocrine system." *http://www.senat.fr/rap/r10-765/r10-7651.pdf
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A REPORT from the French senate's Office for the Evaluation of Science and Technologies has claimed hormone system-linked illness has grown sharply in France, and is calling for immediate action to reduce the release of endocrine disrupting chemicals. Noting that cancers have increased by 35% and 43% respectively in men and women since 1980, the report claims "a credible link between...these diseases and...substances that disturb the endocrine system." *http://www.senat.fr/rap/r10-765/r10-7651.pdf
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