Webinar recording: Plastics, chemicals and cancer

This Feb. 27 webinar was sponsored by CHE-Alaska. Researchers at the Silent Spring Institute recently identified more than 900 chemicals that could increase breast cancer risk, and found that 414 of these chemicals are used in plastics. They discussed the findings of this paper, and how the global plastics treaty could help lower breast cancer rates worldwide.

About the author(s):

Sarah Howard
Sarah Howard
Howard is the Program Manager at Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS), a program of Environmental Health Sciences.

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