New Concerns about Phthalates

Ingredients of common plastics may harm boys as they develop

Phthalates. Difficult to spell and harder to sound out, this class of compounds would be forgettable if the name didn’t keep popping up in debates over the safety of intravenous-blood bags, food packaging, and children’s toys.

Paul Foster and Eve Mylchreest study abnormalities in male rodents’ reproductive tissue triggered by fetal exposure to phthalates.