Babies burdened by environmental estrogens in mothers' wombs
Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 10.10.2019 - Early childhood life in the womb is particularly sensitive to the effects of environmental pollutants. A team from Empa and the University of Vienna has now for the first time been able to show how a pollutant from contaminated food - the environmental estrogen zearalenone - spreads in the womb and is metabolized into harmful metabolites