Sexual & Reproductive Health and Family Planning

Reproductive Hazards in the Work Place

Reproductive toxicity is a hazard related with some chemical substances, that they will affect in some way with usual reproduction; such materials are called reprotoxic. It comprises adverse properties on sexual role and fertility in mature males and women, as well as developmental toxicity in the offspring.The Worldwide Harmonized System of Organization and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) separates reproductive harmfulness from germ cell mutagenicity and carcinogenicity, even still both these hazards may also affect fertility. Some well known group of substances which are poisonous for reproduction are teratogens – constituents which cause birth deficiencies – of which(S)-thalidomide is possibly the most infamous.