Phthalates — the synthetic chemicals used in everyday products for food packaging, personal care, toys and more — have been ...

A newly published study by researchers from Emory University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Columbia University found that a mother's exposure to phthalates during pregnancy can ...

The report is the first to use untargeted metabolomics — the study of all small molecules or metabolites in a biological system — to connect a mother’s phthalate exposure to a newborn’s ...

Found in many personal care products, "fragrance" can include hundreds of chemicals and it's hard to say whether those ...

Participants were around age 24 on average, and their levels of some phthalate metabolites were higher than the average determined by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.Within a ...

Prenatal phthalate levels in the mother’s blood during pregnancy were associated with lower levels of key neurotransmitter precursors (related to tyrosine and tryptophan metabolism) important for ...

More than two dozen chemicals make up the phthalate class. Some of them are used to soften hard plastic and can be found in food packaging, kids toys, and more. Phthalates also help lotions and ...