I-Link Between Phthalates and Cancer

Ingabe Kufanele Ugweme Ama-Phthalates?

Isixhumanisi esiqondile phakathi kwama-phthalates nomdlavuza asikwakhiwe. Kodwa-ke, abanye abantu bagwema ukuphangazela ukunciphisa ingozi, uma ikhona, yokukhula komdlavuza noma ukunciphisa ingozi yokuphindaphinda umdlavuza.

Ziyini Ama-Phthalate?

Ama-phthalates amakhemikhali avelele kakhulu empilweni yabathengi baseMelika. Basiza ukwenza ipulasitiki ifinyeleleke, kwandise impilo yephunga elimnandi, futhi kusize ukuvimbela i-nail polish kusuka ekukhuphukeni.

Noma imuphi umkhiqizo owenziwe nge-polyvinyl chloride (PVC) ungumthombo we-phthalates. Bathola imali encane ngokudla nokuphuza okugcinwe ezitsheni ezenziwe ngezinto eziqukethe ama-phthalates.

Ama-phthalates asheshe aphule emzimbeni angene emetabolites futhi adlule emzimbeni ngokusebenzisa umchamo. Abacwaningi base-US Centers for Disease Control bawathola amazinga afanelekayo okukhiqizwa kwemithi e-phtate emcimbini wabantu abaningi. Abesifazane nabo bebengaba nemetabolites ye-phthalates esetshenziselwa amasobho, ama-shampoos, nemikhiqizo yezimonyo.

Okubalulekile ukuthi, yebo, sibhekiswe kuma-phthalates futhi badlula emizimbeni yethu. Ingabe lokhu kuyingozi engozini?

Inkinga Ngezinhlamvu Zamafilimu

Amaqembu emisebenzi, njenge-American Chemistry Council, athi ama-phthalates awubangeli muntu engozini, kanti amaqembu ezemvelo, njengeGreenpeace, acabangela ukuthi i-carcinogen ingenzeka. I-FDA ithi kukhona ubufakazi obanele bokuthi bungozi, ngakho-ke manje, ukusetshenziswa kwe-phthalates kwimikhiqizo yezithokozi kuvumelekile e-United States.

Noma kunjalo, ama-phthalates avinjelwe kuwo wonke imikhiqizo yokunakekela abantu eYurophu. E-United States i-National Institute of Health (NIH) kanye neKhomishana YezokuThengiswa Komkhiqizo Wabathengi (CPSC) ngamunye ubonise ukukhathazeka. Isibonelo, uMthetho Wokuthuthukiswa Komkhiqizo Wokuphepha Kwezimpahla zabathengi ka-2008 uvimbela ukukhiqizwa noma ukuthengiswa kwamathoyizi aqukethe amazinga athile e-phthalates e-United States.

Indlela Yokugwema Ama-Phthalates

Ukugwema ama-phthalates kuthatha umzamo. Ukuze unciphise ukuchayeka, gwema ukuthenga / ukufaka imikhiqizo ye-vinyl ekhaya lakho, njengama-tile we-vinyl namasethini okugeza, futhi usebenzise imikhiqizo yokunakekelwa yomuntu ebizwa ngokuthi "i-phthalate mahhala."

I-US Yokudla Nezidakamizwa Zokudla Nezidakamizwa inehlu lwemikhiqizo yezimonyo kanye nokuqukethwe kwayo kwephthalate: Ucwaningo lwe-Cosmetics ka-Phthalate ka-2010. I-Diethylphthalate (DEP) yi-phthalate etholakala kwimikhiqizo yokunakekelwa kwezitho zomzimba nezomuntu futhi ingahle ifakwe ohlwini kwizithako. Kodwa-ke, abakhiqizi akudingeki babhale izithako zomuntu ngamunye, ngakho-ke i-FDA incoma ukugwema noma yikuphi umkhiqizo odweba iphunga njengesithako uma ufisa ukugwema ukuphanga.

Imithombo:

> "Ama-Phthalates Q & A." I-American Chemistry Council. 9 Feb. 2007 [http://www.phthalates.org/whatare/qanda.asp].

> Amasevisi Okulawula Nokuvimbela Izifo. Uhlelo lwe-National Biomonitoring, I-Factsheet "Ama-Phthalates."

Umthetho Wokuthuthukiswa Komkhiqizo Wokuphepha Wokuthengwa ka-2008. Library of Congress.

> David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD. "I-Anticancer: I-New Way of Life." I-Viking Penguin , ngo-2008.

> Kenneth Green, D Env. "Ama-Phthalates ne-Human Health." Julayi 2000. [http://www.reason.org/peg2.html].

> "Imikhiqizo ye-Phthalates and Cosmetic." Ukuphathwa kwe-US nokuDrug. 7 Feb. 2008 [http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-phth.html].