Potential mothers should avoid fish to prevent passing on certain harmful chemicals to their offsprings, an alarming study indicates.
Five years of substituting vegetables for fish could reduce prenatal POP exposure by 37 percent, showed the findings. "If the potential mother replaces fish with vegetables for 30 years prior to childbirth, she could reduce prenatal POP exposure of her kid even by 85 percent," the researchers said. In people, POPs have been linked to reproductive, developmental, behavioural, neurologic, endocrine and immunologic adverse health effects, according to the Environmental Protection Agency in the US. The study appeared in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.