DEHP
Study: Chemical blend lowers fish testosterone
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Researchers exposed minnows to a blend of linuron, an herbicide used to control grasses and weeds, and DEHP, a plasticizer used to make medical products.
Endocrine disruptors
Minnow reveals wastewater’s toxic effects
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Males exposed to chemicals managed to mate if other males were not around. But if they had to compete with the control males, however, they “suffered nearly total reproductive failure”: They had no game.