KUMI College of Liberal Arts, Biological Science, Florida Atlantic University, Davie, Florida. The effects of phytochemicals, xenobiotics and other environmental agents on health and reproductive performance needs continued investigation. However, relatively little is known of other environmental agents that have adverse effects on reproduction. There is a huge gap in our knowledge of their potential effects on fertility and reproductive pathology in animals and humans. Existing data strongly indicate that xenobiotics and phytoestrogens have some of the same capabilities to induce developmental toxicity as do traditional estrogens.
Current investigation is aimed at finding some of the answers.