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Phthalates make you sterile

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    CQFD
  • 18 August 2015
  • Ariane Giacobino
    • HUG
    • Médecine, UNIGE
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Scientists suspected phthalates, chemical compounds found in certain plastics, of causing male infertility. This has now been proven thanks to a study from Geneva. This research also specifies that this effect is not systematic.

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