Doesn’t this equation seem wrong to you? There is however a Danish toxicologist and researcher who states it seriously for the world, and who proves it. Unfortunately this addition is correct, and its result is terrible … when it applies to the effects caused by endocrine disturbances in human health.
November 27, 2008
Ulla Hass is a toxicologist with the National Food Institute of Copenhagen. With her research staff, she undertook a study on 1200 rats, according to a simple principle: it involved exposing the animals to 3 chemical substances (one phthalate and two pesticides), each one being administered in a dose known to be without effect, in order to evaluate their impact once they were all present in the organism.
The experiment was conducted on adult rats and followed up by the study of their offspring. The results were alarming. Malformations, sexual dysfunctions: the baby rats of this study had nothing "normal" any more.
And Ulla Hass explained: "Take 3 substances in doses which, when each one is taken independently from the others, do not produce effects. Together, they cause serious malformations. My principal message is that if we do not take into account the effects caused by mixtures, in risk evaluation, we underestimate the risks we run for humans."
0 + 0 + 0 = 7, states Ulla Hass … or a first quantification of 'the cocktail effect’.
An effect which we can also obtain via cosmetics, which sometimes contain chemical substances in amounts considered as not having …
