Effects of environmental toxicants reach down through generations

ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2012) — A Washington State University researcher has demonstrated that a variety of environmental toxicants including jet fuel, dioxin, plastics and the pesticides DEET and permethrin -- promoting epigenetic disease across generations.can have negative effects on not just an exposed animal but the next three generations of its offspring.
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