endocrine disrupters

I must address the very controversial issue of endocrine disrupters.

We are, for example, asking for studies on endocrine disrupters.

This hasn't stopped greens from using endocrine disrupters to raise money and grab attention.

We are concerned here with carcinogenic substances and endocrine disrupters.

Concerns about endocrine disrupters have been growing for nearly a decade based on a series of observations and deductions.

Protecting children from endocrine disrupters in cosmetics and prescription drugs may also be difficult in the near future.

One study suggests that chemicals that act as endocrine disrupters may put an unborn infant at risk.

The concern is that some plastic wraps contain endocrine disrupters, which can mimic or interfere with hormones in the body.

The Environmental Protection Agency has begun to screen thousands of chemicals to see which ones may be endocrine disrupters and need further study.

Many of them are known carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters - dangerous at some level of exposure.

As part of the Community strategy for endocrine disrupters the Commission launched a dedicated call for research proposals in 2001.

Waste water treatment, e.g. for removal of phenols, dyes, and endocrine disrupters.

"As research progresses, low sleep duration and poor sleep quality are increasingly recognised as endocrine disrupters."

In fact, the panel seemed to take pains to refer to the compounds not as endocrine disrupters but rather as "hormonally active agents."

The substances selected are heavy metals, dioxins, PCBs and endocrine disrupters.

It also addresses questions relating to human exposure to mixtures of chemicals, sensitisation and identification of endocrine disrupters.

They, CMRs and other substances of very high concern, such as endocrine disrupters, will be subject to a rigorous authorisation process, including substitution.

He has been responsible for sector specific policies for organic solvents, nanomaterials, pesticides, detergents, endocrine disrupters etc.

Various neurological changes occur after prenatal exposure of embryonic males to DES and other estrogenic endocrine disrupters.

The best known of the suspected endocrine disrupters are dioxin, DDT and PCB's.

He also directs a program that studies endocrine disrupters, which are chemicals like isoflavones with hormonal activity that disrupts the endocrine system.

By the nature of their effects most of the endocrine disrupters would normally qualify as CMRs - carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction.

We need a ban on carcinogenic, mutagenic and reproductively toxic (CMR) pesticides and endocrine disrupters.