Highlights•The use of academic research in risk assessment of EDCs needs to be
improved.•Regulatory risk assessment puts specific requirements on study design and …

The possibility that endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in our environment contribute to
hormonally related effects and diseases observed in human and wildlife populations has …

Over the past several decades, scientific consensus has grown around the concept and
evidence for human health impacts from exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals …

The European regulation on plant protection products (1107/2009)(EC, 2009a), the
revisions to the biocides Directive (COM [2009] 267)(EC, 2009b), and the regulation …

Background The issue of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is receiving wide attention
from both the scientific and regulatory communities. Recent analyses of the EDC literature …

Regulatory agencies around the world depend on standardized testing approaches to
evaluate environmental chemicals for endocrine disrupting properties. The US …

Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) are a diverse group of “chemicals of emerging
concern” which have attracted much interest from the research community since the 1990s …

Efforts are being made globally to improve the evaluation and understanding of endocrine-
disrupting chemicals. Recognition of their impact on human health and the environment has …

Screening for endocrine disrupting properties at the molecular and cellular level is
developing rapidly, but can epidemiology bridge the gap to human health impact? Reviews …

The present debate on chemicals with Hormonal activity, often termed 'endocrine disruptors',
is highly controversial and includes challenges of the present paradigms used in toxicology …