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U.S. fish experience same effects as U.K. fish
- To: dioxin-l@essential.org
- Subject: U.S. fish experience same effects as U.K. fish
- From: "Susan K. Snow" <sksnow@1stnet.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:39:02 -0800
- Organization: Pollution Solution
The internet is blossoming with articles of endocrine disruption wherever
one looks. The wording tells is articles are from the independent
scientific community or from affected industries. Check out
http://www.worldmedia.com/cgi-shl/dbml.exe?Template=/services/edrc/News.dbm
This time fish in the U.S. are experiencing what fish in the U.K.
experienced.
**Endocrine disrupting chemicals can potentially alter the reproductive
physiology of fishes....Male fish collected from an effluent channel
below the St. Paul metropolitan sewage treatment plant had significantly
elevated serum egg protein (vitellogenin) concentrations and
significantly decreased serum testosterone concentrations compared to
male carp collected from the St. Croix River, classified as a National
Wild and Scenic River...**
See http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1996/104(10)/toc.html