Midwifery and Women’s Health

Reproductive Toxicity

Reproductive toxicity is a hazard related with some chemical substances that will affect the usual reproduction process; such materials are called as reprotoxic. It has adverse effects on sexual role and fertility in mature males and women and developmental toxicity in the offspring. The Worldwide Harmonized System of Organization and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) separate reproductive harmfulness from carcinogenicity and germ cell mutagenicity.  Some well-known group of substances which are poisonous for reproduction are mainly include  teratogens, constituents which cause birth deficiencies  of which(S)-thalidomide is possibly the most infamous; endocrine disruptors or lead compounds.