ABSTRACT
Many women continue to work throughout pregnancy, making the link between women’s
workplace exposure to organic solvents and reproductive hazards an important public
health issue. The effect of this exposure on human offspring development is important to
the discussion of developmental neurotoxicology since exposure to organic solvents is
widespread and, over the last three decades, increasing evidence has accrued to suggest
that many solvents can be potent teratogens. However, current biological understanding of
the effects of organic solvents on reproductive outcome remain far from definitive and
confined to a small number of organic solvents.
