Les pesticides organochlorés, des perturbateurs endocriniens encore présents dans l’alimentation, pourraient diminuer la fertilité chez les femmes en agissant dès le stade de l’implantation, selon une étude publiée dans la revue Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). 
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The EPA and independent researchers can't possibly test the huge range of chemicals found in products we use. But now a tireless, efficient bot will take on the task.
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(Reuters Health) -  People with relatively high levels of certain pesticides in their blood may have an increased risk of type 2 diabetes -- particularly if they are overweight, a new study suggests.
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For years, the explanation for weight gain was straightforward: it was all about energy balance, or calories-in versus calories-out. Environmental scientists have long suggested that there were likely external factors at work, but until recently, the traditional obesity-research community rejected such claims. Now it seems that the tide is turning in the light of the accumulating body of research linking the environment with obesity.
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Many agricultural pesticides used in Europe could disrupt male hormones and lead to infertility problems, according to laboratory tests. Biomonitoring studies to investigate the actual behaviour of pesticides in the human body are now urgently needed to clarify the link between pesticide exposure and male reproductive health.
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AFP - "Dirty Dozen" chemicals, including the notoriously toxic DDT, are being freed from Arctic sea ice and snow through global warming, a study published on Sunday suggested.
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Unknown amount of trapped persistent organic pollutants poses threat to marine life and humans as temperatures rise. The warming of the Arctic is releasing a new wave of banned toxic chemicals that had been trapped in the ice and cold water, scientists have discovered.
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Une étude menée en Chine montre que l'exposition à des polluants organiques comme les PCB augmente le risque de malformation fœtale.
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Babies who were exposed to certain organic pollutants in the womb are at a highly increased risk of neural tube defects leading to conditions such as spina bifida, according to researchers in China.
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In a study of 31 Boston offices, polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants now banned internationally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants were detected in every office tested.
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(Boston) Researchers studied over two dozen offices in Boston and discovered that dangerous flame retardant chemicals - polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) - banned by an international treaty are contaminating every office.
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Every week, it seems, a new study identifies potentially harmful chemicals in the food we eat, the makeup we wear, the toys and bottles used by our children. Next up: the recycled foam padding installed under wall-to-wall carpeting.
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Bottlenose dolphins and beluga whales, two marine species at or near the top of their respective food webs, accumulate more chemical pollutants in their bodies when they live and feed in waters near urbanized areas.
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The decision of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants to include the pesticide endosulfan in the list of chemicals scheduled for elimination at the global level is a positive step.
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Documental sobre análisis niveles de dioxinas y furanos en una compra aleatoria de alimentos en un mercado español.  
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Climate change is a major obstacle to a 2004 global treaty aimed at cutting exposure to 21 highly dangerous chemicals, according to a new UN-commissioned report issued last week. The 66-page report says the risks of exposure could increase if more stockpiles and landfills leak due to flooding or other extreme weather linked to rising temperatures.
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Wal-Mart is banning a controversial flame retardant found in hundreds of consumer goods, from couches to cameras to child car seats, telling its suppliers to come up with safer alternatives. More:
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Another type of brominated flame retardant widely used in consumer products has been detected in human breast milk in the United Kingdom, a recent study finds. The authors estimate the nursing infants are exposed to levels four times higher than those estimated for U.K. adults and toddlers.
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Women's risk of developing autoimmune rheumatic disease increases incrementally according to the frequency and duration of their exposure to insecticides, a large observational study suggested.
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Investigadores de la University of California, de San Francisco, Estados Unidos, aseguran que la mayoría de mujeres embarazadas de ese país están expuestas a productos químicos, incluyendo algunos presentes en muchos productos o utensilios de la vida diaria a otros que están prohibidos desde hace varias décadas.
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