 What I found on PCOS anf BEEF
What I found on PCOS and horomone residues:
Could hormone residues be involved?
Frederick S. vom Saal1,* Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, 105 Lefevre Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
the estimated reference values used to establish ‘safe’ exposure levels for hormone residues in beef may overestimate background levels in children by as much as 100–200-fold and thus dramatically underestimate risk (Andersson and Skakkebaek, 1999.
Furthermore, women would also be expected to be affected by developmental exposure to xenobiotic hormones; studies relating maternal beef consumption to daughters' incidence of PCOS, age at adrenarch/menarche and post-natal growth rate would be predicted to show a significant relationship. On the basis of the shift in focus regarding the molecular mechanisms by which xenobiotic hormonally active chemicals can disrupt development at very low doses, and the advances in analytical techniques over the last 20 years, the risks associated with exposure during development to hormonal residues in beef should be revisited by JECFA and other regulatory bodies. |