One study found evidence of dozens of previously made human-made chemicals in humans in the blood of pregnant women and their newborns.
Researchers at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) collected the blood of 30 pregnant women, along with samples of their umbilical cords, and analyzed them using high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) to identify human-made chemicals in the blood.
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The scientists detected 109 chemicals during the study, including 55 never reported in humans and 42 labeled “mysterious chemicals” with no known sources or uses. The researchers said the chemicals are likely to come from consumer products or other industrial sources, and the fact that they are found in the blood of pregnant women and their children suggests that they travel through the mother’s placenta.
“These chemicals have probably been in people for some time, but our technology is now helping us to identify them more,” Tracey J. Woodruff, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at UCSF, said.
People are exposed to man-made chemicals when eating and drinking food that came into contact with the containers, as well as through a number of other products. The chemicals found are used to make plastics more flexible, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, pesticides and flame retardants. They also include PFAS compounds, which have been used in a variety of industries across the world and in the United States since the 1940s.
“It is alarming that we continue to see certain chemicals travel from pregnant women to their children, which means that these chemicals can be with us for generations,” she said.
The study was published in Environmental Science and Technology.
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