date:Jul 18, 2017
A study of 1500 South Australian men found a link between several chronic diseases and phthalates a group of chemicals used widely in food packaging.
The results, which have been published in the international journal Environmental Research, detected phthalates in the urine samples of 99.6 per cent of men in the study aged 35 years and over.
We found that the prevalence of cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes and high blood pressure increased among those men with higher total phthalate lev