By Dustin Siggins
for LifeSiteNews.com
BASQUE COUNTY, SPAIN, April 4, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new report is showing that chemicals in contraceptives, as well as certain everyday products, are producing eggs in male fish in estuaries in a county in Spain.
The report says endocrine disrupting chemicals are seeping into the water and affecting reproductive and developmental processes in fish. Specifically, male fish testicles have been found to have immature eggs. The chemicals are found in products such as pesticides, oral contraceptives, and detergents.
It is suspected that the estuaries are impacted
after the chemicals make their way through cleaning systems in water treatment
plants and/or because of farming and industrial activities.
Spain has studied the
problem in this part of the country for nearly seven years. They have found both masculinization
and feminization of organisms, though data is still uncertain as to the effects
on the environment.
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