Exposure to chemicals dangerous to hormone function burdens Americans with hundreds of billions in disease costs
Date:
October 18, 2016
Source:
NYU Langone Medical Center
Summary:
Annual healthcare costs and lost earnings in the United States from low-level but daily exposure to hazardous chemicals commonly found in plastic bottles, metal food cans, detergents, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides, exceeds $340 billion, according to a detailed economic analysis.
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Endocrine disrupting chemicals interfere with hormone action to cause adverse health effects in people.
Credit: Image courtesy of NYU Langone Medical Center
Annual healthcare costs and lost earnings in the United States from low-level but daily exposure to hazardous chemicals commonly found in plastic bottles, metal food cans, detergents, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides, exceeds $340 billion, according to a detailed economic analysis by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center.
The investigators who performed the calculations say the massive toll from everyday contact with endocrine-disrupting chemicals amounts to more than 2.3 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161018103657.htm