Why are so many children being born with sex defects? eg hypospadias

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Why are so many children being born with sex defects?

<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2064554/Why-children-born-sex-defects\

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1.2 million Britons are thought to have been born with some kind of

disorder of sexual development as a result of errors in their genetic

code. The disorders may be becoming increasingly common as a result of

chemicals in plastics and hormones excreted by women taking the Pill, or

similar drugs used in animal rearing.

BPA lurks in canned soups and drinks.

<http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/bpa-lurks-in-canned-soups-and-drinks/>

By Anahad O'Connor New York Times 23 November 2011

A new study may provide another reason to skip the canned pumpkin and

cranberry sauce this Thanksgiving. People who ate one serving of canned

food daily over the course of five days, the study found, had

significantly elevated levels --- more than a tenfold increase --- of

bisphenol-A, or BPA, a substance that lines most food and drink cans.

The new study, which was published Tuesday in The Journal of the

American Medical Association, is the first to measure the amounts that

are ingested when people eat food that comes directly out of a can, in

this case soup. The spike in BPA levels that the researchers recorded is

one of the highest seen in any study.