After decades with little progress, the US Environmental Protection Agency plans to revamp an effort to evaluate pesticides for potential effects on estrogen, androgen, and thyroid hormones. The move ...

Plastic drinking bottles, food cans, toys - endocrine disruptors can enter the body via numerous pathways and disrupt the hormone system. In order to research these substances - both artificially ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — For 25 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to properly test for endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in many food products as mandated by Congress, a ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency plans to revamp its Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP), a 25-year-old effort to screen chemicals for their ability to disrupt estrogen, androgen, and ...

I was struck by this large heading on an EPA website, “Rebuilding the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program.” This program does not need to be rebuilt; it should be eliminated and consolidated with ...

The 1996 Food Quality and Protection Act (FQPA) and the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) mandated that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) develop a screening and testing strategy for ...

Treating pollutants, such as endocrine disruptors, is an effective way to protect the environment. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that alter the hormonal systems and the development of organisms ...