Bisphenol A (BPA) is ultimately more toxic than decreed Health Canada in 2008. Now the finger pointing by Quebec researchers, it seeps into our food and therefore, in our body. Bioaccumulate particularly harmful when it comes to pregnant women.
In reaching this conclusion, the researchers collected the placenta of five pregnant women immediately after childbirth to exhibit a very low concentration of the polycarbonate. Result: it will damage the placental cells irreversibly.
This recent study demonstrating the direct effect of BPA on the mechanisms of defense and protection of the fetus. “A hundredth of what was found in the blood of pregnant women may be harmful to the fetus,” says Aris Aziz, a doctor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Sherbrooke.
Low exposure to this compound could even lead, the researchers of this study, pre-eclampsia, prematurity and miscarriage. These results were published on the website of the journal Elsevier.
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