Endocrine Disruption

Recent studies are pointing to the ‘tremendous economic as well as human health costs of endocrine-disrupting chemicals’, as a proportion of GDP, (2.3 percent of the USA’s and 1.28% of Europe’s gross domestic product) that are impacting health budgets. (Trasande et al 2015) (Trasande et al 2016) (Attina et al 2016) The 2015 paper concluded:

‘that endocrine disrupting chemical exposures in the EU are likely to contribute substantially to disease and dysfunction across the life course with costs in the hundreds of billions of Euros per year.’^[1](Trasande et al 2015)

The 2016 study by Teresa Attina and colleagues advised:

‘Annual healthcare costs and lost earnings in the United States from low-level but daily exposure to hazardous chemicals commonly found in plastic bottles, metal food cans, detergents, flame retardants, toys, cosmetics, and pesticides, exceeds $340 billion.’ (Attina et al 2016)

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