Class of PCB's causes developmental abnormalities in rat pups
... ... The pups were estimated to have levels of the toxicant in their blood that were roughly equivalent to those found in the blood of breast fed babies of mothers exposed to extremely high levels of the toxicant from contaminated fish, soil, water and air...Bacterium could treat PCBs without the need for dredging
... ... Commercial PCBs, which were banned from production in the United States in 1977, were once commonly used by industry. The compounds are mixtures of 70-...PCBs, furans may factor in risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Scientists have found some additional evidence that environmental exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) may be associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to a study published in the December 1 issue of Cancer Research....... By comparing blood levels of PCBs in 100 pairs of healthy volunteers and non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients, Anneclaire De Roos, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemio...EU research suggests that PCBs damage sperm but finds no dramatic effect on male fertility
Research by an EU-supported international team of scientists has shown that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)[1] - synthetic organic chemicals found widely in the environment and absorbed in the diet may damage sperm. ......But, lead author Dr Marcello Span, of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA), stressed that the study had found no dramatic effect...