Plasticizers may contribute to motor control problems in girls

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/cums-pmc010620.php

News Release 6-Jan-2020
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health


Scientists at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) have uncovered a link between prenatal exposure to phthalates--a ubiquitous group of plasticizers and odor-enhancing chemicals--and deficits in motor function in girls. Phthalates are widely used in consumer products from plastic toys to household building materials to shampoos and are thought to disrupt endocrine function, and possibly interfere with brain development in utero.

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