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Environmental Phthalate Exposure in Relation to Reproduction Outcomes and Health Endpoints

Environmental Phthalate Exposure in Relation to Reproduction Outcomes and Health Endpoints

Anjum Afshan, Md Niamat Ali, Farooz Ahmed Bhat
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 30
ISBN13: 9781522594529|ISBN10: 1522594523|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522594536|EISBN13: 9781522594543
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9452-9.ch017
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Afshan, Anjum, et al. "Environmental Phthalate Exposure in Relation to Reproduction Outcomes and Health Endpoints." Handbook of Research on Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Plastic Pollution, edited by Khursheed Ahmad Wani, et al., IGI Global, 2020, pp. 340-369. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9452-9.ch017

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Afshan, A., Ali, M. N., & Bhat, F. A. (2020). Environmental Phthalate Exposure in Relation to Reproduction Outcomes and Health Endpoints. In K. Wani, L. Ariana, & S. Zuber (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Plastic Pollution (pp. 340-369). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9452-9.ch017

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Afshan, Anjum, Md Niamat Ali, and Farooz Ahmed Bhat. "Environmental Phthalate Exposure in Relation to Reproduction Outcomes and Health Endpoints." In Handbook of Research on Environmental and Human Health Impacts of Plastic Pollution, edited by Khursheed Ahmad Wani, Lutfah Ariana, and S.M. Zuber, 340-369. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9452-9.ch017

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Abstract

Environmental pollutants, like xenobiotic substances released as byproducts of anthropogenic actions, naturally lead to pollution of the environment. They negatively affect the environment through unfavorable impacts on growth, development, and reproduction of organisms including humans. One of the outstanding examples of xenobiotics is endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) such as phthalate esters (PEs), which have the efficacy to disturb numerous biological systems including the invertebrate, reptilian, avian, aquatic, and also the mammalian systems. Phthalates are family of xenobiotic hazardous compounds amalgamating in plastics to intensify their plasticity, flexibility, longevity, versatility, and durability. Ignoring the rising issue on the hazardous nature of various phthalates and their metabolites, ruthless usage of phthalates as plasticizer in plastics and as additives in innumerable consumer products continues due to their low eminent properties, their cost-effectiveness, and lack of suitable alternatives. Globally epidemiological human studies showed various phthalates and their metabolites ingested passively by man from the general environment, foods, drinks, breathing air, and routine household products cause various dysfunctions. This comprehensive chapter on the hazards of phthalates would benefit the general population, academia, scientists, clinicians, environmentalists, and law or policymakers to decide upon whether usage of phthalates to be continued swiftly without sufficient deceleration or regulated by law or to be phased out from earth forever.

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