House cleaning chemicals may cause birth defects

New research finds that two chemical compounds commonly found in household cleaning and personal hygiene products cause birth defects in rodents.
Researchers from the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) and the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech – both in Blacksburg, VA – set out to examine the effect of a common type of chemicals in mice and rats.




The first author of the study – published in the journal Birth Defects Research – is Terry Hrubec, associate professor of anatomy at VCOM and research assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.

Source: Medical News Today