Pregnant? Best avoid contact with antibacterial compounds

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Pregnant? Best avoid contact with antibacterial compounds

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/pregnant-best-avoid-contact-antibacterial-compounds-164349858.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/iLwn.tqPHT0czcc4cYSMSA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/US-AFPRelax/shutterstock_12.7b0f1154045.original.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Pregnant? Best avoid contact with antibacterial compounds" align="left" title="Pregnant? Best avoid contact with antibacterial compounds" border="0" /></a>A study to be presented this week at the 248th National Meeting &amp; Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) indicates, ironically, that what keeps us clean can be hazardous to unborn fetuses and could cause developmental and reproductive problems. The compounds in question, called triclosan and triclocarban, and are commonly used bacteria killers, present in more than 2,000 everyday products marketed as antimicrobial, including toothpastes, soaps, detergents, carpets, paints, school supplies and toys, according to researchers. &quot;We looked at the exposure of pregnant women and their fetuses to triclosan and triclocarban, two of the most commonly used germ-killers in soaps and other everyday products,&quot; says Benny Pycke, Ph.D., of Arizona State University. &quot;We found triclosan in all of the urine samples from the pregnant women that we screened.</p><br clear="all"/>

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