Genoa Warner
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Genoa Warner
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Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Environmental Science, NJIT | reproductive toxicologist | synthetic chemist | wearer of babies
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This is awesome. Do you at any point test for and remove outliers?
November 21, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Biomonitoring studies like this one show that we now have more DEHTP metabolites in our blood than any single phthalate, so the endocrine disruption potential of DEHTP really needs more study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35247685/
Identification of profiles and determinants of maternal pregnancy urinary biomarkers of phthalates and replacements in the Illinois Kids Development Study - PubMed
Conception season, enrollment year, and several sociodemographic/lifestyle factors were predictive of phthalate/replacement biomarker profiles. Future studies should corroborate these findings, with a...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 19, 2024 at 11:55 PM
It has a very similar structure to DEHP, so we were not too hopeful that it would be safer. DEHTP did not get a clean pass and is likely an ovarian toxicant. Beware of flexible PVC plastics labeled phthalate-free because they likely contain this potentially regrettable replacement.
November 19, 2024 at 11:55 PM