Detergents harmful?

Alkyl Phenols, a chemical, used in detergent is harmful since it is estrogen hormone-like
property damage development of human and living thing.
***** Very important. act now.
My friend is worrying that his son may act like girls for years....

cancer, intimately associated with development, is acommon occurrence in bodily systems like the breast and the prostatewhich are controlled by hormones.Metabolism, immune protection, brain and sexual development - all aredependent on minute concentrations of hormones and their accompanyingactivating receptor molecules. These are substances in concentrationsequivalent to one drop of vermouth in many thousands of rail tankersof gin.A wide range of industrially produced chemicals also bind to thesereceptor molecules and become biologically active. They are known asendocrine (hormone) disruptors.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been gathering evidencefor six years about the handful of dioxins and PCB endocrinedisruptors that bind to the aryl hydrocarbon (Ah) hormone receptor inliving organisms. The EPA is studying only the variety of effects thatdepends on this binding to occur.Very tiny concentrations of hormones are normally required to eliciteffects. These are typically in the low parts per trillion, just a fewthousand hormone-receptor pairs in a developing embryo. For example,in male humans, testosterone is produced by a genetic command tochange our (always female) developing sex organs to male ones in thethird month after conception.