Pill Blamed for Sexually Deformed Male Fish
Scientists have found sexual deformities in male fish caught off the Californian coast, suggesting that gender-bending chemicals have reached alarming levels in the waters.
Of 64 bottom-dwelling fish caught along the coastline, 11 males were found to have ovarian tissue growing in their testes, Dan Schlenk, a marine toxicologist at the University of California, Riverside, told the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry meeting in Baltimore yesterday.
Scientists believe female hormones in sewage, such as oestrogen from the contraceptive pill, and chemicals are to blame.
Of 64 bottom-dwelling fish caught along the coastline, 11 males were found to have ovarian tissue growing in their testes, Dan Schlenk, a marine toxicologist at the University of California, Riverside, told the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry meeting in Baltimore yesterday.
Scientists believe female hormones in sewage, such as oestrogen from the contraceptive pill, and chemicals are to blame.
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