#Germany: Study Shows Chemical Banned in 2013 Increasingly Found in Children

"[B]etween 2017 and 2021, the proportion of samples [from kindergarten children] contaminated with MnHeP increased from 26% to 61%."

These #government people do nothing but talk about #global-warming.

They don’t talk about the #poisonous #chemicals in the #environment, which are entering the bodies of all #humans.

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Germany’s Federal Environment Agency (UBA) is sounding the alarm after finding high levels in humans of a #banned #plasticiser—a chemical added to a material to make it more flexible and less brittle. The presence of the harmful substance, linked to male #infertility and higher risks of #diabetes and #obesity, was discovered as part of the ongoing 6th German environmental study on health.

UBA toxicologist Marika Kolossa said to Die Welt that the metabolite MnHexP had been found in 28 percent of urine samples so far.

A breakdown product of the plasticizer di-n-hexyl phthalate (DnHexP), MnHexP, has been strictly regulated since 2013 and is largely #prohibited in the #EuropeanUnion. It was first discovered in humans in 2023... continue