Worryingly, environmental hormones are accumulated and amplified as they pass up the food chain, so it is likely that both the organisms the oyster drill feeds on, and those that feed on it, have also been polluted.
讓人憂心的是，環境荷爾蒙具有累積與放大效應，因此食物鏈中與蚵岩螺上下連結的生物恐怕也已受到污染。