PHTHALATES AND HUMAN HEALTH

he diesters of 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid (phthalic acid), commonly known as phthalates, are a group of man-made chemicals with a wide spectrum of industrial applications (fig 1, table ] The references included in this review were searched using the Web of Science database which provides interactive citation and literature searching of the Institute for Scientific Information's Science Citation Index Expanded. The database contains data from more than 5000 scientific journals and covers the period from 1980 to present. We also searched the bibliography cited in the selected references for additional relevant citations.