"Plastic ocean": What about cancer?

Thomas C Erren; J Valérie Gross; Frank Steffany; V Benno Meyer-Rochow

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2015.05.025

"Plastic ocean": What about cancer?

Environ Pollut. 2015 Dec:207:436-7. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.05.025.

Authors

Thomas C Erren¹, J Valérie Gross², Frank Steffany³, V Benno Meyer-Rochow⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute and Policlinic for Occupational Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Prevention Research, Uniklinik Köln, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: tim.erren@uni-koeln.de.
² Institute and Policlinic for Occupational Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Prevention Research, Uniklinik Köln, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
³ Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, 50923, Köln, Germany.
⁴ Research Institute of Luminous Organisms, Hachijojima, Tokyo, Japan.

PMID: 26074024
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.05.025

No abstract available

Keywords: Bisphenol A; Cancer; Fetal exposure; IARC; Neonatal exposure; Plastic; Public health; Styrene; Synthetic polymer; Toxicology; Vinyl chloride.

Publication types

Letter