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In the glare of orange spotlights, Swan laid out her conclusion: that the innocuous products in your kitchen cupboard, bathroom cabinet or garden shed may be lowering sperm counts. They could also affect the reproductive systems of your unborn children. The implications of EDCs for human health don’t stop there: they can disrupt thyroid function, trigger cancer and obesity.
Several weeks later, when I visited Swan at home in New York, she said that speaking to audiences outside her field did not always come naturally: “Sometimes it means saying things like ‘taint’, and sometimes it means talking about erections and other things that don’t trip off my tongue easily.” What has driven her into the public arena is a conviction that the world might be sleepwalking into a fertility crisis. If her hypothesis is correct, we need to overhaul how we cook, eat, produce and package consumer goods, and rethink industrial processes.
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