The murky waters of the debate over chemical exposures and health just got murkier. And a bit nastier.
By Valerie Brown, Miller-McCune
Washington State University researcher Michael Skinner, who found that exposing rats prenatally to a widely used fungicide resulted in male reproductive malformations and malfunctions for four generations, is being challenged by industry and government scientists who say it isn’t replicable.
Skinner and his team have carried out a series of experiments exposing pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats to high doses of vinclozolin, a fungicide used on a variety of agricultural products.
The transgenerational aspect of the damage is the really staggering feature of Skinner’s research, because of its profound implications for human health, not to mention commerce. If damage to one generation carries on indefinitely into future generations, even when ensuing generations are not directly exposed, shouldn’t we make our chemicals regulations policy far more rigorous immediately?
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This research was featured on NOVA. It was looking so promising, but now will wait and see.
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