Organic contaminants, environmental endocrine disrupters

Guillette, L.J., Crain, D.A., and Rooney, A.A. et al. (1995). Organization versus activation— the role of endocrine-disrupting contaminants (EDCs) during embryonic-development in wildlife. Environmental Health Perspectives 103, 157-164. 

UV filters are currently considered as emerging environmental contaminants of increasing concern since most of the commonly used are known to cause endocrine disrupting effects in both aquatic and terrestrial organisms as well as in human skin cells [4]. These compounds bioaccumulate in fish at similar levels to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and DDT [5, 6]. 

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