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Chlorinated water associated with birth defects
Drinking chlorinated water while pregnant can harm the foetus. A cross-sectional study of nearly 400,000 infants in Taiwan examined the risk of developing eleven common birth defects at four levels of exposure to chlorination by-products. The results revealed that exposure to high levels of by-products substantially increased the risk of three common defects: ventricular septal defects, cleft pala ...
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