Picture credit: Datu Arellano

A scientific report released this week by the European Commission demonstrates that there is growing evidence that endocrine disrupting or “gender bending” chemicals are contributing to a variety of adverse human and environmental health effects.

This post appeared on the Collaborative for Health and the Environment Blog in 17 November 2011.

The smallest car in the world is one billionth of a metre. 60,000 times smaller than the thickness of a hair. And is self-propelled. Instead of carrying people or freight, it could transport molecules and atoms and be used to reconstruct damaged cells.

Nanoparticles can perform tasks that were previously never thought possible.

photo: rumpleteaser

If there was a substance that could cause birth defects, affect brain development, promote breast cancer, prostate cancer and diabetes, change the gender of wild fish, increase heart disease, decrease your chance to have children and make you obese, where is the last place you would put it? In your food? In a baby’s drinking bottle?