From New Orleans, at the e.hormone 2004 conference
Although production and use of DDT have been banned throughout most of the world for decades, people continue to carry the pesticide’s residues in their bodies. That’s a concern because animal studies have shown that DDT can mimic the action of some hormones and derail the normal development of reproductive tissues (SN: 2/5/00, p.
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