Toxic infertility spontaneous abortion

Human infertility can result from the action of xenobiotic chemicals on the female reproductive system, the male reproductive system, attack on the fetus, and the induction of effects in utero that are manifest during adulthood, giving rise to a programmed infertility. Spontaneous abortion can ensue when pregnant women are exposed to toxic chemicals such as those in disinfection byproducts produced by the chlorination of drinking water. 

Much of the evidence for the adverse reproductive effects of selected toxicants will be based on cases involving wildlife exposiues to environmental contaminants or on the experimental results of research exposing laboratory animals to large pharmacological doses of potential toxicants. When available, data are presented from accidental or intentional human and domestic animal exposures to toxicants associated with riot control and chemical warfare or with environmental catastrophes during which incidences of infertility, spontaneous abortion, and teratogenesis have been traced over the course of a number of years. 

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