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Perhaps 7 percent of all births in the United States are defective,1 and an unknown but high number of pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion or stillbirth. In the vast majority of these cases—perhaps up to 70 percent2—the cause is not known. Hundreds of agents capable of producing such effects have been identified,3 including many found in the workplace, but their actual impact on human reproduction has not been quantified.
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Stellman, J.M. (1980). The Biology of Toxic Effects on Reproductive Outcomes. In: Walsh, D.C., Egdahl, R.H. (eds) Women, Work, and Health: Challenges to Corporate Policy. Industry and Health Care, vol 8. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8077-1_10
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