A special report in the Observer newspaper in the UK on 23 June 2019 asked the question: Why is life expectancy faltering? Toxic history of Monsanto in the UKMason begins by offering a brief history of Monsanto in the UK. In a report prepared for the agency and the local authority in 2005 but never made public, the sites contain at least 67 toxic chemicals. Mason discusses his work into endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), man-made chemicals that became widespread in the environment after WW II. Rosemary Mason shows that the health of the UK population already lags behind other countries in Western Europe.