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Chemicals that produce such effects are called endocrine disrupters.
As a contractor for the EPA more than 10 years ago, I learned that endocrine disrupters were emerging as a major bad-boy environmental contaminant -- one that might alter the ability of animals and plants to reproduce and function normally.
Foods were not refined and the succulent fruits and vegetables we know today were full of naturally occurring pesticides, herbicides, neurotoxins, and endocrine disrupters, all made by the plants to protect themselves from being eaten.
 
 
 
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