[b]Washington State University[/b] researchers say ancestral exposures to the pesticide methoxychlor may lead to adult onset kidney disease, ovarian disease and obesity in future generations, reports [s]Science Daily[/s]. [b]Methoxychlor[/b] – also known as [b]Chemform, Methoxo, Metox[/b] or [b]Moxie[/b] – was introduced in 1948 and widely used during the 1970s as a safer replacement for DDT. It was used on crops, ornamental plants, livestock and pets. It is still used in many countries around the world. Prof Michael Skinner, founder of WSU’s [b]Centre for Reproductive Biology[/b], says: ‘What your great-grandmother wasexposed to during pregnancy, like the pesticide methoxychlor, may promote a dramatic increase in your susceptibility to develop disease, and you will pass this on to your grandchildren in the absence of any continued exposures,’ he says.
[link url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140724144253.htm]Full Science Daily report[/link]
[link url=http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0102091]PLOS ONE abstract[/link]