Hunt, Patricia

While the EPA used to list DEHA as a toxic chemical, for some reason it no longer does. But we re not convinced. We want more concrete evidence that a chemical formerly labeled toxic won t harm us when it leaches out of plastic, especially when we re pregnant or breastfeeding. Exercising caution when it comes to plastic makes even more sense when you take into account another study done by Dr. Patricia Hunt in the April 2003 issue of Current Biology, which reported that exposure to bisphenol-A (BPA) causes a chromosomal abnormality in the oocytes, or egg cells, of female mice. Polycarbonate plastic ( 7), used for everything from glasses to bowls, is manufactured with bisphenol-A. 

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the invaluable help and encouragement of Professor W. Klyne, who read the entire draft manuscript and made many constructive suggestions for its improvement. Our thanks are also due to Dr. J. R. Hanson for numerous helpful comments and corrections to the manuscript, to Miss Patricia Browne, Mr. Alan Mudd, Miss Jennifer Wiles, and Mr. Malcolm Wilson, who shared the onerous task of hunting for errors in the typescript and references, and to Mrs. Bernice Benjamin for typing the manuscript, assisted by Mrs. Laura Grobler and Mrs. Wendy Mose. 

The author thanks Patricia Hunt for her assistance with the measurements T. D. Heyes for preparing the dodecyl sulfate salts, and H. C. Kung for confirmatory studies on the spread monolayers. 

Patricia A. Hunt, Edward J. Maginn, Ruth M. Lynden-Bell, and Mario C. Del Pdpolo... 

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