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U.S. fish experience same effects as U.K. fish



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