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PARTNERSHIP EVENTS
Partnership call: Advancing Risk Assessment: Progress and Ongoing Obstacles
4/26/12: MP3 recording available: CHE Cafe call: Designing Healthy Communities: a conversation with Richard Jackson, MD, MPH
CHE WORKING GROUP EVENTS
CHE Alaska call: Little Changes: A Discussion with Author Kristi Marsh on How to Avoid Chemicals in Food and Everyday Products:
May 30, 2012
CHE Fertility and Reproductive Health and CHE EMF working groups call: EMF and Reproductive Health Risks:
May 21, 2012
Cumulative Impacts Working Group Strategic Meeting:
May 22, 2012
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Gender-bending pollutants changing sex of clams, scientists say Scientists working along the south-west coast of Britain have discovered widespread evidence of chemicals disrupting the sexual development of sensitive marine organisms. In a study published today, the researchers report the first cases in which hormone-disrupting pollutants are believed to be responsible for gender-bending effect on marine invertebrates living in British estuaries. The finding has caused alarm because the affected species are crucial for the health of the ecosytem, in some cases forming the staple diet of many larger animals. Continue reading... |
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