Gender-bending chemicals are putting our future at risk

The soaring number of gender-bending chemicals in the environment has disturbing fertility implications for humans and wildlife, scientists are warning.
They say wild animals are being ‘feminised’ by a host of common man-made pollutants which mimic the female sex hormone oestrogen and escape into seas, rivers, the earth and air when waste is disposed of.

The chemicals? -? found in food packaging, cleaning products, plastics, sewage and paint? -? cause genital deformities, reduce sperm count and even turn males into females.

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