A study carried out by the Environment Ministry found a substance believed to be an endocrine disrupter in the umbilical cord of a newborn baby, the ministry said Wednesday.
The study’s findings, reported by the ministry’s investigative commission on endocrine disrupters, showed that dicyclohexyl phthalate, or DCHP, was detected in the umbilical cord of one of five infants studied.
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