ea0070oc8.1 | Environmental Endocrinology | ECE2020
Buha Aleksandra
, Milovanovic Vesna
, Bulat Zorica
, Antonijevic Biljana
The lifelong exposure to mixtures of endocrine disrupting chemicals raises serious concerns about their deleterious effects on human health. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) had widespread use in numerous industrial applications, and were massively produced for several decades. After the discovery of the adverse effects of PCBs in the 1970s, brominated flame retardants (BFRs) were established as the major chemical flame retardant. Both chemicals persist in the environment and ...