Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images (Getty Images/iStockphoto) There has been a lot of discussion over the past few years about phthalates, aka ...

Mounting public and regulatory concerns regarding widespread phthalate exposure may result in a rapid expansion of regulatory and litigation risk for impacted businesses. Phthalates are chemicals ...

You may not realize it, but you likely encounter phthalates every day. These chemicals are found in many plastics, including food packaging, and they can migrate into food products during processing.

More than ever, people are worried about how all the chemicals we're exposed to are affecting our health: among them a family of chemicals known as phthalates, which are used in everyday plastics. Not ...

Phthalates, chemicals commonly found in personal care products, food processing and packaging, and household items, could be linked to delayed language development in children, according to a study ...

Children’s toys and child care products will soon have fewer chemicals in them. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted Wednesday to ban five kinds of phthalate chemicals from these ...

Middle-aged White women who had higher levels of some breakdown products of phthalates — a class of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that act as plasticizers — had a significantly greater risk of ...

University of Adelaide researchers have found another important reason to avoid some processed foods with the discovery of a link between an unhealthy diet and exposure to potentially harmful ...

Also known as plasticizers, phthalates are also commonly found in food packaging and plastics Phthalates are a group of chemicals most commonly used to make plastic more flexible and harder to break.

Whipping up a home-cooked meal can be delicious, nutritious and fun. Oh, and there’s another perk as well: It probably won’t be full of hormone-disrupting chemicals. A new study from researchers at ...

Ortho-phthalates, or phthalates for short, are a family of chemical compounds that can be found in hundreds, if not thousands, of the products you buy. The synthetic chemicals are commonly used to ...

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