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RESEARCH
PROJECT
How
safe is your tap water?
Fish
with two sexes, lesbian birds, alligators
with abnormally small penisses: the effects
of so called 'hormone disrupting chemicals'
on animals is establihed beyond doubt. But
there are also signs that the hormone
disruptors can harm the health of humans.
And that is an alarming thought, since that
the potentially harmfull chemicals appear to
be present in... drinking water! They leak
from plastic waterpipes. This is discovered
in recent research by different European
laboratories, gathered by the Investigative
Reporters Network Europe (IRENE). Even a
normal, daily dose of hormone disrupting
chemicals can cause a serious threat to the
devopment of sexorgans of male babys.
Read
the story in Knack
Read
the story in Algemeen Dagblad
e-mail: info(at)irene-reporters.org
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