Antibacterial Chemical Disrupts Hormone Activities.

Byline: University of California, Davis

DAVIS, Calif., Dec. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new University of California, Davis study shows that a common antibacterial chemical added to bath soaps can alter hormonal activity in rats and in human cells in the laboratory -- and does so by a previously unreported mechanism.

The findings come as an increasing number of studies -- of both lab animals and humans -- are revealing that some synthetic chemicals in household products can cause health problems by interfering with normal hormone action.

Called endocrine disruptors, or endocrine disrupting substances (EDS), such chemicals have been linked in animal …