Sentences with phrase «identifying endocrine disruptors»
The EU Commission publishes a draft roadmap, Defining criteria for identifying Endocrine Disruptors in the context of implementation of the Plant Protection Product Regulation and Biocidal Products Regulation.
https://www.endocrinescience.org/
«A large team of environmental health scientists and green chemists developed a methodology called the Tiered Protocol for Endocrine Disruption for identifying endocrine disruptors to the highest levels of contemporary science, that we published in Green Chemistry in 2013.»
The European Commission has identified endocrine disruptors as serious contaminants to be monitored and restricted under its Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical (REACH) legislation and its Water Framework Directive.
The U.S. Food Quality Protection Act and amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act are passed, mandating that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) develop a new chemical screening program to help identify endocrine disruptors.
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BPA has been identified as an endocrine disruptor and has been linked in numerous animal studies to adverse health effects, including in reproductive and metabolic systems, which have prompted public concern.
They also have been identified as endocrine disruptors.
«Make the best choices you can, stay informed, then live your life,» says Jeanne Rizzo, RN, executive director of the Breast Cancer Fund, a nonprofit group that identifies environmental health risks, such as endocrine disruptors, and advocates for their eliimination.
This is really very concerning, and unsurprisingly, endocrine disruptors have been identified as one potential culprit.
In this work, we also identified by mass spectrometry the heavy metals arsenic, chromium, cobalt, lead and nickel, which are known to be toxic and endocrine disruptors, as contaminants in 22 pesticides, including 11 [glyphosate - based] ones.»
Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), especially perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), have been identified as plausible endocrine disruptors with the potential to perturb weight regulation [9,11 — 14].
Laboratory studies of animals have also identified a growing list of commonly used chemicals as suspected endocrine disruptors.
Scientific studies have specifically identified only a few chemicals as known endocrine disruptors in humans, including the drug diethylstilbesterol (or DES), and the chemicals DDT, PCBs, and dioxin.