Scrambling Eggs in Plastic Bottles

R Scott Hawley,Dorothy Warburton

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0030006

Abstract

Scrambling Eggs in Plastic Bottles

Highlights

This issue of PLoS Genetics contains the second of two important papers describing the high levels of meiotic failure caused by exposure of female mice to a chemical known as Bisphenol A (BPA) [1]
As the authors point out, ‘‘We are exposed to BPA daily; it is a component of polycarbonate plastics, resins lining food/beverage containers, and additives in a variety of consumer products
The findings in mice that BPA interferes with these processes raise the disturbing possibility that the exposure of women to BPA today might not be manifest for another generation

Summary

Introduction

This issue of PLoS Genetics contains the second of two important papers describing the high levels of meiotic failure caused by exposure of female mice to a chemical known as Bisphenol A (BPA) [1]. This discovery raises the troubling issue of whether or not this chemical, or other similar chemicals, pose a risk to meiotic fidelity in the human population, one that might increase the already high frequency of meiotic failures.

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