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- Author(s): Hinterthuer, Adam
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Scientific American. Sep2008, Vol. 299 Issue 3, p108-111. 3p. 1 Color Photograph.
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This article discusses research by the geneticist Patricia Hunt into the safety of bisphenol-A (BPA), a plastic additive that mimics estrogen in the human body. Hunt discovered this property when she found that BPA leaked from her plastic laboratory equipment into the mice that she was using. The possibility that BPA exerts a greater effect on the human body in low doses than in high doses is explored.
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