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(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- Recent media reports have attributed a causal link between autism and a common antibacterial and anti-fungal agent called triclosan to researchers at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute. There is no evidence that triclosan is implicated in promoting autism and neither the M.I.N.D. Institute nor any researchers associated with the M.I.N.D. Institute have made this assertion.
The UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute is engaged in a variety of lines of inquiry into the causes of autism, among them the complex interplay between environmental factors and neurological development. Recent in vitro studies by M.I.N.D. Institute researchers and others have found that, while triclosan was previously believed to affect only bacterial cells, it also has diverse biological activities in mammalian cells.
Triclosan is in widespread use in a variety of commonplace household products, including detergents and soaps, and has been found to accumulate in the environment and in human...
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