The analysis was developed at San Cecilio University Hospital , in Granada, with 308 women who had given birth to healthy children between 2000 and 2002. The results are alarming: 100% of these pregnant women had at least one pesticide in their placenta, but the average rate amounts to eight different kinds of chemical substances.The most common was a compound knows as DDE, which results from ingestion of DDT, a pesticide that has been banned for decades in Spain and Europe.
According to María José López -the author of the doctoral thesis "Maternal-child exposure via the placenta to environmental chemical substances with hormonal activity" and the leader of the research team- during the gestation period, all the contaminants accumulated in the organism have direct access to the microenvironment where the embryo/foetus develops.
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