Everyday Exposure to CECs (Contaminants of Emerging Concern)

  • Common household items like non-stick cookware, plastic packaging, cleaning products, and furniture contain harmful chemicals.
  • These include PFAS, known as "forever chemicals", which persist in the environment and the body.
  • Include pesticides (DDT, Chlordane), industrial chemicals (PCBs, PFAS), and by-products (dioxins, furans).
  • POPs resist degradation, accumulate in the food chain, and pose long-term health and environmental risks.
  • Endocrine disruption, reproductive disorders, cancers, neurological and developmental issues like ADHD.
  • Other impacts are infertility, menstrual irregularities, birth defects, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, ....
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