Environmental contaminants may contribute to fertility compromise.

hat was known about environmental conaminants that may affect human fertility. he gathering (Understanding Environental Contaminants and Human Fertility ompromise: Science and Strategy) marked he first time infertility, women’s health, and eproductive rights advocates met with reearchers in reproductive epidemiology, bilogy, toxicology, and clinical medicine to ssess the state of environmental health scince in relation to human infertility. In the esulting Vallombrosa Consensus Stateent, the experts state that, whereas envionmental contaminants are unlikely to be the sole etiologic factor underlying human nfertility,” there is enough evidence from a ariety of disciplines to confirm that some hemical exposures do cause adverse reprouctive health outcomes. The ability to reproduce is fundamental Linda Giudice, MD