Two Food Additives Have Previously Unrecognized Estrogen-like Effects

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 10:35 in Health & Medicine

Scientists in Italy are reporting development and successful use of a fast new method to identify food additives that act as so-called "xenoestrogens" -- substances with estrogen-like effects that are stirring international health concerns. They used the method in a large-scale screening of additives that discovered two additives with previously unrecognized xenoestrogen effects. 

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