 CHEMICAL POLLUTION
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by a quarter
Why there are four times as
many autistic boys as girls
- and how to get your
mercury levels tested
Overheated non-stick pans
cause ‘Teflon flu’
Sunscreens and skin cancer
Indoors more polluted than
outside - pot plants
hoover up
40% of NHS costs due
to air pollution
Am I a girl or a boy?
Air pollution increases cancer
Plastic with your beans?
Toxic additives
Dioxins in fish
Spermicide increases AIDS
Five hundred synthetic
chemicals in one human cell
Flame retardents in VDUs
blamed for illness
Health effects of
air fresheners
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Sunscreens and skin cancer
An active ingredient in sunscreens, 2-phenylbenzi-midazole-5 (PBSA), which is used to absorb ultraviolet B (UVB), was found to damage DNA when exposed to sunlight in a test tube. The researchers from Queen's University in Belfast (N. Ireland) feared that, if it caused similar changes to skin cells, this could lead to skin cancer. Although there was no definite proof that this was occurring, the researchers recommended that an alternative UVB absorber is found. Original research: Chemical Research in Toxicology. Publ.: The American Chemical Society. www.acs.org (5716) Financial Times
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