Are plastics a threat to human health?

Dr John Peterson ‘Pete’ Myers is a US environmental scientist acknowledged as a pioneer of research looking at how plastics in food packaging and in the environment could be affecting health.

 

He’s the founder and chief scientist of not-for-profit organisation Environmental Health Sciences, and was co-author of the 1996 book Our Stolen Future which explored how synthetic chemicals could be disrupting the hormone and endocrine systems of both people and animals.

 

Dr Myers has been in New Zealand this week, giving public talks.

Are plastics a threat to human health?
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