Plastic Additives Tied to Millions of Preterm Births Worldwide
March 31, 2026
March 31, 2026
NEW YORK, March 31 [Category: BizHospital] -- NYU Langone Health, an academic medical center affiliated with New York University, posted the following news release:
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Plastic Additives Tied to Millions of Preterm Births Worldwide
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Exposure to a chemical commonly used to make plastic more flexible may have contributed to about 1.97 million preterm births in 2018 alone, or more than 8 percent of the world's total, a new analysis of popu . . .
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Plastic Additives Tied to Millions of Preterm Births Worldwide
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Exposure to a chemical commonly used to make plastic more flexible may have contributed to about 1.97 million preterm births in 2018 alone, or more than 8 percent of the world's total, a new analysis of popu . . .