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Envir Chem at KMUTT-JGSEE – June –Sept 08
Time: Location:
http://www.unc.edu/courses/2008fall/enst/110/001/
Rich Kamens; 087 089 1520 [email protected] http://www.unc.edu/~kamens/
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Textbook Environmental Chemistry by
Colin Beard and Michael Cann, ISBN > 0-7167-4877-0, publishers W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 652 pages, 2005
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Who is Richard Kamens Professor of Atmospheric chemistry
and teach graduate classes in Environmental chemistry
Direct a smog chamber research group Focus on aerosol formation in the
atmosphere Direct a student exchange program
between UNC and Thai Universities
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UNC outdoor chamber
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Gas/Particle partitioning of toxics organics on different aerosols
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New UNC Aerosol Smog Chamber
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Dual 270m3 chamber fine particle t 1/2 >17 h
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We generate models to predict organic aerosol formation in the atmosphere from smog chamber experiments
Numerical fitting Semi-explicit
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Link gas and particle phases
C=OO
cis-pinonaldhyde
particleC=OO
Gas phase reactions
TSPC
CK
gasi
parti
p
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[ [ iigasgas] + [part] ] + [part] [ [ iipartpart]]
K
R T
p M wpLo
7 5 0 1
1 0 9
. fom
Kp = kon/koff
kon
koff
particle
kon
koff
C=OO
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CHOOO
CH3
OO
O
Criegee2
Criegee1OO O
-pinene
O3
COOHCOOH
pinic acid
+ otherproducts
O
pinonic acid
CHOO
COOH
+ CO, HO2, OH
COOHO
norpinonaldehyde
norpinonic acid
Mechanism
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pinonaldehyde
OH
OO
O2
+
(a)(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
pinonaldehyde
acetone
O
OO.
NO2NO
O
O.
pinald-oo
OH
pinonic acid
O
pinO2
OO.
NO2
NO
organic nitrate
+HO2
+NO2
pinald-PAN
=o
=o
=o
=o
=o
=o
=o
OO.
O2
=o
OO=C8=O
C8-oo.
O2
NO2NO
O
+ h
+
+CO+HO2=o
OO.
NO2NO
=o
=o+HO2
+ h
NO2NO
=o
OO.
C8-oo. (C8O2)
+CO+HO2
NO2
NO
(f)
(g)
CO2+
pinO2H2O+
+HO2
O2
OO
H3C-OO.
+oxygenated products
+NO2
+H3C-OONO2PAN
(stab-oxy)
+HO2
norpinonaldehyde
OOH
O=o+
pin-ooH
+OH
O
OO.
=o
NO2
NO
+CO2
norpinaldPAN
+NO2
+HO2
norpinonic acid+norpin-ooH
O
OONO2
=o
+O2
ONO2
=o
+
=o
ONO2
+
organic nitrate
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Overall kinetic Mechanism
linked gas and particle phase rate expressions
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Chemical System
-pinene
+ NOx+ sunlight + ozone----> aerosols
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0.95 ppm -pinene + 0. 44ppm NOx
O3NO
NO2
NO2
model
data
Time in hours EST
pp
mV
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Gas phase pinonaldehdye
OO
mg
/m3
Time in hours EST
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Particle phase
model TSP
mg
/m3
Particle phase
model TSP
mg
/m3
Measured particle mass vs. model
data
Time in hours EST
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UNC outdoor chamber group
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The Thai-CEP Undergraduate/Graduate Exchange Program
• Pollution does not understand boarders.
• We must begin to address these problems from both inside and outside ones culture.
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General Approach Since 2001, UNC-CEP undergraduates
participated in a 6+ month experience in Thailand that begins at the end of May 2001
Small groups of UNC students come together with Thai students to study and work on a research project at various Thai universities.
Thai students will go back with UNC students for a semester at UNC.
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Classes UNC students take 3 direct contact/web-
based environmental classes
Atmospheric and ecotoxicology LCA Energy and the Environment
Climate Change and Eco Biomass and Energy Energy and the Environ
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Feasibility of Ethanol Use and an Energy Analysis and Environmental Impact of Ethanol in Thailand:KMUTT 2001- 2002
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The Feasibility of Bio-diesel Production as Petroleum Substitute in Thailand : KMUTT 2004
Energy balance
Used vegetable oil
Production from Jatropha
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Water Quality Report:Mae Kha Canal & Ping River: CMU, Chiang Mai, 2004
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Air Pollution in Northern
Thailand
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50
100
150
200
250
300 u
g/m
3
12-Ma20-Ma
28-Ma05-Ap
13-Ap21-Ap
29-Ap05/07
05/15
PM2.5 standard Nui
PM2.5 concentrations
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Long standing relationship with Peking Universityand CRAES
Since 1983 there were 13 visiting Chinese scholars in our research group at UNC
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Introduction to Environmental Physical Organic Chemistry
Environmental chemistry may be defined as "the study of sources, reactions, transport, effects, and fates of chemical species in water, soil, and air environments, and the effects of technology thereon.” Manahan, 1994
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Class objectives:
Highlight some important areas in environmental chemistry
present some of the common techniques that environmental chemists use to quantify process that occur in the environment
It is assumed that everyone has courses in organic and physical chemistry.
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Class objectives:
We will cover general topics: Global warming, Strat. O3, aerosols, photochemical smog, acid rain, etc.
Develop relationships will be used to help quantify equilibrium and kinetic processes
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Thermodynamics
ui = uo1 +RT ln pi/p*
iL
fi = i Xipi*pure liquid
RT ln fi hx /fio
pure liq = RT lnfi H2O /fi
opure liq
fi hx = fi H2O
ln Kp = a 1/T+b
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ambmfusiL T
TT
R
Spp is
)()(lnln **
Vapor pressure
)]()( ln.*lnT
T
T
Tp bbiL 58119
How to calculate boiling points
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Vapor pressure and Henry’s law
KPC
P Viawi
iwiw
satsat
satsat
iL*
iw
Solubility and activity coefficients
Octanol-water partitioning coefficients
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Homework, quizzes, exams To insure that most of us stay
reasonably current with the lectures and readings, an option is to have 8-10 unannounced quizzes throughout the semester.
They will take ~10 minutes. Quizzes will count 20% of your grade.
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Another option is a set of short questions to be answered and handed in before most lectures (20% of your grade)—your choice!
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There will be a homework problem set associated with each assigned chapter of the book.
These problem sets should take between 1 and 3 hrs.
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Some of these could appear on exams
There will be two exams
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There are more than 70,000 synthetic chemicals that are in daily use:– solvents– components of detergents– dyes and varnishes– additives in plastics and textiles– chemicals used for construction– antifouling agents– herbicides, insecticides,fungicides
Why the interest?
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Polynuclear Aromatic HC (PAHs) Dioxins Ketones PCBs CFCs DDT O3, NO2, aerosols, SO2
Some examples of environmental chemicals
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Formed from small ethylene radicals “building blocks” produced when carbon based fuels are burned
Sources are all types of burning
in ChiangMai, Thailand: a) 2-stroke motorcycle
engines b) cars- light diesels c) open burning d) barbecued meat??
PAHs
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Combustion Formation of PAH
Badger and Spotswood 1960
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
C
C
C
C
C
C
CC
CC
CC
(VII) (VI) (V)
Benzo a Pyrene
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Metabolized to epoxides which are carcinogenic; O PAH
are indirect acting mutagens in bacterial mutagenicity tests (Ames-TA98+s9)
methyl PAHs are often more biologically active than PAHs
PAHs
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Professor Gernot Grimmer extracted different types of smoke particles
He then took the extract and applied it to mouse skin
and implanted it into rat lungs
How did he obtain extracts? How did he fractionate his extracts??
Carcinogenic tests with PAHs
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Extraction by soxhlet extraction starts with solvent (MeCl2) in a flask
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Extraction by soxhlet extraction starts with solvent (MeCl2) in a flask
MeCl2
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The solvent is heated and starts to evaporate
Heat
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Evaporated solvent goes into a water cooled condenser where hot solvent drips out
Heat
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The hot solvent drips into another glass chamber that contains the filter.
Heat
sample
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Hot solvent fills this chamber and bathes the filter
Heat
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The solvent in the filter chamber then drains back into the heated flask withchemicalsfrom the particleson the filter
Heat
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The organic liquid in the soxhlet flask can be concentrated by evaporation by a dry nitrogen stream or rotary evaporation
the extract can then be fractionated into different polarity compound groups
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Professor Grimmer fractionated the exhaust extracts
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Professor Grimmer fractionated the exhaust extracts
HPLC
column (silica gel)
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Professor Grimmer fractionated the exhaust extracts
HPLC
hexane MeCl2
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Professor Grimmer fractionated the exhaust extracts
HPLC
hexane MeCl2
uv orfluorescencedetector
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Professor Grimmer fractionated the exhaust extracts
HPLCTotalextract
hexane MeCl2
uv orfluorescencedetector
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Professor Grimmer fractionated the exhaust extracts
HPLC
PAH 2&3 rings
Total
hexane
uv orfluorescencedetector
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Professor Grimmer fractionated the exhaust extracts
HPLCTotal
PAHs>3 rings
hexane MeCl2
uv orfluorescencedetector
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Professor Grimmer fractionated the exhaust extracts
HPLCTotal
Total-PAHs
uv orfluorescencedetector
ACN
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Professor Grimmer fractionated the exhaust extracts
HPLC
PAH 2&3 rings
Total
PAHs>3 rings
Total
Total-PAHs
uv orfluorescencedetector
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skin painted mice implanted rat lungs
What did Grimmer see when exposed rats and mice to the different fractions?
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These are some of the most toxic organics in the environment - LD50
Created by burning organics which have chlorine; incineration is a big source of atmospheric dioxins and furans
bleaching in making paper is another source
Chlorinated dibenzo dioxins and Furans
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Combustion Formation of Dioxins from Polychlorinated phenol
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They have the following general structures
O
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Cly chlorinated dioxin
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They have the following general structures
O
O Clx
Cly chlorinated dioxin
O Clx
Cly chlorinated furan
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The most toxic is either the 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibeno dioxin and furans
More than 200 different structures are possible
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These types of compounds produce toxic enzymes: arylhydrocarbon hydroxylase and 7-ethoxyresorufin deethylase
At low concentrations they may behave as environmental estrogens
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Environmentally, they are unreactive and can be transported long distances
They did not start to show up in the environment until the 1920s when there was a big increase in the production of chloro-organics (Professor Ron Hites, and students)
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Environmental Fate of Chlorinated Dioxins and Furans
(Czuczwa and Hites, 1984)
Collected core sediment samples from southern Lake Huron in the USA
Based on sedimentation rates they established age vs. concentration profiles for chlorinated dioxins and furans
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US coal consumption vs chlorinated aromatic production
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Chlorinated aromatic production vs dioxinand furan conc. in lake core samples
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used as coolants - insulation fluids in transformers, capacitors , plastercisers, additives to epoxy paints
are thermally stable and biologically stable
can exist in the gas and particle phases
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
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Cl y
Cl x
PCB structures
Environmentally, they used to be considered unreactive, but there is evidence for some bio-degradation; they can be transported long distances
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What do we do now, when new compounds are introduced into the environment...??
toxicity?? low concentration health effects? damage to the ecosystem ? where will it show up in the
environment? how is it transported in the
environment and what is its life-time?
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Some examples of environmental exposures
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1. There is a general concern that if we observe abnormalities in wildlife, similar kinds of mechanisms may exist in humans.
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Mercury poisoning off the coast of Minamata, Japan is an example
Fishermen in the 1950s noticed sea birds were dying and feral cats that scavenged fish from the docks were “stiff legged”
Cerebral palsy and mental retardation started showing up in children.
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2. Toxic loads
Scientists have hypothesized that the fetus is sharing the mother’s toxic load, and may actually provide some protection to the mother by reducing her internal exposure.
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2. Toxic loads
Children get 12% of their lifetime exposure to dioxins during the 1st year.
Their exposure is 50 times greater than an adult during a very critical developmental period.
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2. Toxic loads
Firstborns from dolphins off the coast of Florida usually die before they separate from their mothers
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2. Toxic loads It is speculated that mother dolphins
unload 80% of their accumulated pollutants into their calves, probably during nursing.
The greatest exposures occurs with the 1st born
Does this have any implications for humans?
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3. Pesticide exposures
Children of farm families in the western Minnesota area of the US have significantly higher rates of birth defects than the general population.
The highest rates are among children conceived in the spring when spraying of pesticides is most intense; male babies had far more birth defects than females
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4. The end points may not only be cancer, but compromised immune systems and generally poorer health.
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4. Immune systems & Mother’s milk
In the Netherlands researchers have found that children with higher levels of dioxins and PCBs in their bodies have more health problems (immune system and hormonal changes) than children with lower levels.
This was linked to levels of PCBs in Mother’s milk.
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4. Mother’s milk
Mother’s milk from Inuit Indians in the Canadian Arctic has 7 times the PCBs as mother’s milk from women in the urban industrialized areas of southern Quebec.
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4. Mother’s milk
During the first year, Inuit babies suffer through 20 times more colds than babies in southern Quebec.
Acute ear infections are rampant.
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4. Mother’s milk
Babies nursed by mothers with the highest contamination levels in their milk are afflicted with more acute ear infections than bottle fed Inuit babies.
Many of these children don’t seem to produce enough antibodies for childhood vaccinations to take.
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5. PCBs and lower intelligence
There is evidence of lower intelligence in babies exposed to PCBs.
In adults, a blood-brain barrier insulates the brain from many potentially harmful chemicals circulating through the body
In a human child this barrier is not fully developed until 6 months after birth.
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5. PCBs and lower intelligence
In 1979 in Taiwan, more than 2000 people were exposed to PCB-contaminated cooking oil.
In the 1st 3 months many babies died outright. As the surviving children grew up, many were slower intellectually than other kids their age, were hyperactive and had behavioral problems.
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5. PCBs and lower intelligence
Similar observations were made in "high-PCB kids" in the Lake Michigan area.
This was associated with mothers eating salmon and trout from the Lake during the years before their children were born.
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5. PCBs and lower intelligence
At age 4 the high exposure group had poor short term memories. At age 11 the 30 most highly exposed kids had average IQ scores that were 6 points lower than the lowest-exposed group.
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7. Sexual impairment
There is evidence for sexual impairment in both animals and humans from high PCB exposures and other environmental chemicals.
Male beluga whales in the very polluted St. Lawrence River have exhibited female organs.
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7. Sexual impairment
Highly exposed humans, alligators and panthers exhibit smaller male sex organs and low sperm counts.
Testicular cancers have nearly doubled among older teenagers in the US between 1973 and 1992.
In previous lectures I have said these have been linked to toxic exposures....long way from finding proof.
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7a. Sexual impairment
In a new study (Hardwell et al, Environ Presp, 2003) woman who’ve had substantial exposure to certain environmental pollutants are more likely to bear sons who develop testicular cancers (men ~ 30 years of age)
From 1973-1999 testicular cancers up 67%
Men with test-cancers had high cis nona chloridane, not PCBs, etc
Mothers, however, had high PCBs, HCB (hexa-chlorobenzenes) and cis nona chloridane
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7b. Sexual impairment
These same mothers probably had high exposures when environmental contaminates peaked in Scandinavia in the 1970s
Richard Sharpe of Edinburogh and Niels Skakkebek (Denmark) proposed that exposure to endocrine disruptors before birth can alter testicular-cell development and some of these cells may be cancerous after puberty.
This may also may explain rising rates of male infertility, and other sexual deformities
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8. Endocrine disrupters
These studies have led to the notion of environmental "endocrine disrupters".
In the lock and key relationship between hormone and receptor molecules, these "hormone impostors" can:
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8. Endocrine disrupters
bind with receptors and trigger biological processes
or bind with receptors and tie up an active hormone site
Some of these have been called environmental estrogens
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9. Other chemicals
From a historical perspective, everyone is now carrying at last 250 measurable chemicals that were not part of human chemistry before the 1920s (Peter Myers, 1996)
The most basic toxicity testing results cannot be found in the public record for nearly 75% of the top volume chemicals in commercial use in the USA
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9. Other chemicals
In other words, the public cannot tell whether a large majority of the highest-use chemicals in the United States pose health hazards or not (Amicus Journal, p23, Spring 1998).
An example are phthalates that go into many types of plastics which have been shown to reduce the sperm counts in mice.
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9. Other chemicals
Bisphenol-A (BPA) is an additive in polycarbonate plastics used in food liners, dental sealants, and dental fillings.
BPA causes increased prostate size in mice exposed to tiny doses while in the womb. These doses were 25,000 times smaller than the EPA threshold.
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9. Phthalates
Exposure of female rates to 200 to 1000 mg/kg body weight results in much lower testosterone in male offspring( L. Earl Gray. Jr. EPA, RTP, J. Tox and Ind. Health, Mar, 1999).
Exposures to the herbicide linuron made the epididymis (sperm-storing organ in rats) is much smaller in male rats.
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epididymus
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Recommendations During the insecticide spraying season,
farmers should not try to have children. Limit exposures to pesticides around the home. When possible, buy foods that were grown
without pesticides. Governments must try to limit PCB introduction
into the environment. If incineration is used, chlorinated plastics
should be removed, along with modern technology.