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Fracking Chemicals Found to Disrupt Hormone Function

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Fracking operation on top of Colorado's Roan Plateau.  The
green tanks hold fluids for fracking.  Photo:  TEDX
The Endocrine Disruption Exchange
Fracking Chemicals Found to Disrupt Hormone Function
by Kaye Spector, EcoWatch, 
16 December 2013

University of Missouri researchers have found that 11 chemicals commonly used in fracking for oil and natural gas are endocrine disruptors, while water near hydraulic fracturing drilling sites had greater hormone-disrupting properties than in areas without drilling.

Endocrine disruptors interfere with the body’s endocrine system, which controls numerous body functions with hormones such as the female hormone estrogen and the male hormone androgen. Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals has been linked by other research to cancer, birth defects and infertility.

“More than 700 chemicals are used in the fracking process, and many of them disturb hormone function,” researcher Susan Nagel, Ph.D, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and women’s health at the University of Missouri School of Medicine said in a media release. “With fracking on the rise, populations may face greater health risks from increased endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure.”
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