“…PCBs have been classified as carcinogenic to humans by the IARC (Lauby-Secretan et al, 2013) and have been linked to many health concerns involving the reproductive (Buck Louis et al, 2009), endocrine (Hagmar, 2003;Luzardo et al, 2012b), neurological (Longnecker et al, 2003), immune system (Tsuji, 2015) and cancer (Arrebola et al, 2015). Although most studies devoted to evaluate adverse health effects exerted by these pollutants in humans have been performed in series of occupationally exposed people or in subjects affected by acute intoxications (Yorifuji et al, 2013), a number of adverse health effects have been also described in general population in relation to chronic environmental exposure to PCBs (Carpenter, 2006;Vaiserman, 2014).…”