Sentences with phrase «not endocrine disrupting chemicals»

If there are no adverse health effects, there's endocrine interaction but not endocrine disruption, and the substances are not endocrine disrupting chemicals, a label frequently misused by the media and others.

One report found that the EPA recently determined that the herbicide Roundup, the world's most widely used weed killer, is not an endocrine disrupting chemical that can cause birth defects and other serious reproductive health problems.

Not exact matches

Many of these identified endocrine - disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which include pesticides and substances used in manufacturing a multitude of products, have been reported to interfere with thyroid hormone function, yet public health policy does not fully address the risks to vulnerable populations.

«Although you can not directly know of the source of DEHP in the system, research has reported extremely high levels of DEHP on the day of blood reinfusion compared to the previous day,» said Steven Neese, who studies endocrine disrupting chemicals at the University of Illinois.

The endocrine disrupting effects of chemicals have generally not been adequately studied.

«As endocrine - disrupting chemicals, PCBs interfere with the way the thyroid hormone functions, but they don't actually change the amount of the hormone found in the body,» said one of the study's authors, R. Thomas Zoeller, PhD, of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA.

«To truly understand how endocrine - disrupting chemicals may be affecting pregnancies, the findings show we need to study not only hormone levels, but hormone activity at the cellular level.»

Industrial chemicals don't have to be tested for endocrine - disrupting qualities before they go on the market.

While there are hundreds of studies linking Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) to male infertility, this study examined what happened when three successive generations of males were exposed, not just one generation.

Not only can endocrine disrupting chemicals affect developing babies later in their lives, but there's some evidence that they can also affect future generations: one study on rats showed that exposure to endocrine disruptors during pregnancy affects the brain two generations later!

This means that exposures to the numerous chemicals in food and the environment, such as endocrine disrupting chemicals and carcinogens, could be causing levels of damage that would not occur if the body were able to detoxify them.»

Whether these and other chemicals also have endocrine disrupting effects in humans is not known, but is the subject of much research.