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EDCs and their impact on your health

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EDCs include:

  • Traditional pollutants such as persistent organic pollutants (polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, hexachlorobenzene, organochlorine pesticides, perfluorooctanoic sulfonate and polybrominated diphenyl ethers)
  • Solvents (styrene, perchloroethylene, trichlorobenzene)
  • Metals (lead, cadmium, nickel, mercury and arsenic)
  • Pesticides (organochlorine and organophosphate compounds, pyrethrins and pyrethroid)
  • Plastics and their components (phthalates and bisphenol A [BPA])
  • Ingredients in cosmetic and cleaning products (parabens and triclosan)
  • Ultraviolet filters
  • Components of detergents (alkylphenols)
  • Environmental pollutants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r12gy7CZ20

This is a shortened version of a CPD article created for The Specialist Forum's February 2020 issue. To complete a CPD about EDCs, along with the other CPD-accredited articles for this issue, go to:

https://www.medicalacademic.co.za/courses/specialist-forum-cpds-february-2020/ 

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