Word: alkyl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chemicals -- thyroid damage, immune deficiencies, sexual abnormalities -- a pattern emerged. Most of the problems involved malfunctions of the endocrine system that is responsible for producing hormones. Among the chemicals fingered by the group as probable culprits were DDT, kepone, triazine herbicides, certain PCBs and dioxins, styrenes and the alkyl phenols found in some detergents and plastics...