And ‘well known that unfortunately, for cynicism and economic calculation, mankind often underestimated the environmental impact of substances that produces and distributes; but perhaps, if it is established the potential danger of this chemical filter for men, you could finally decide to banish the presence within the compounds that give life to the sunscreen .
The study published in the journal Archives of Environmental Contamination & amp; Toxicology has thus revealed to a more intimate level as is the death of coral reefs and as industrial logic increasingly incautious are wasting our lives brighter, turning it into a giant hospital ward, strictly color white.
The oxybenzone is harmful because it can alter the DNA coral also acting as endocrine . If the corals were human beings we could say that the substance is for their highly carcinogenic. According to the studio specialist, sunscreens would be a very concrete threat to the coral that would risk then, to become extinct. Besides the coral is a ecosystem particularly sensitive and vulnerable that affected much of these pollutants.
Craig Down, doctor in charge of the studio and biologist in a prestigious laboratory of Virginia said: “You have to seriously reconsider the use of products containing BP-3 in the islands and in areas where the conservation of coral reefs is a key issue. “
To make the numbers (mostly disturbing statistics) we thought the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration): to 14 thousand tons of sunscreen flock every year in areas with coral . Most of these up to 10% of benzophenone-3 .
These areas are those in which was found the highest concentration of oxybenzone, yet I have found traces can to pollute even the coral located between 8 and 32 km from the coast.
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