61. Reason Foundation - Phthalates And Human Health Discusses human health concerns and public health benefits related to plasticizers, which are chemicals used to soften normally-rigid PVC, or polyvinyl chloride plastics. http://www.reason.org/peg2.html

62. EUROPA - Environment - Endocrine Disrupters european commission, endocrine disrupters website seek to provide the basic principles on endocrine disruptors and introduce the central issues giving a number of reports and http://ec.europa.eu/environment/endocrine/index_en.htm

Important legal notice document.write(''); document.write('English (en)'); document.write(' '); en EUROPA European Commission Environment Chemicals ... Workshop reports Conscious of the potential threats from endocrine disruptors to humans and the environment the European Commission adopted a strategy in December 1999 aiming at addressing this pressing issue. The subject matter is complex and with this website we seek to provide you with the basic principles on endocrine disruptors and introduce the central issues at hand. A number of reports as well as the Commission's strategy are also presented in detail. The priority list of substances for further evaluation of their role in endocrine disruption is now available as an Access-Database. The database comprises not only substances categorised in terms of priority but also the scientific information underlying the prioritisation. It can be extracted from this webpage A study to complement the "priority list" with a focus on Low Production Volume Chemicals (LPVC) was completed end of December 2006.

63. WWF - Sustainable Goods And Services - Creating A Sustainable Marketplace Information from the WWF on toxic chemicals in the environment. Focus on endocrine disruptors, persistent organic pesticides (POPs) and agricultural pesticides. http://www.worldwildlife.org/toxics/

You are viewing the full version of our site. Visit mobile site Search the site World Wildlife Fund Home ... Panda Pages We live on a finite planet and sometimes our impact on it is greater than we realize. The seemingly isolated actions we take every day—from our choice of morning beverage to our choice of business practices—are often links in a chain of unusual connections we would never have imagined. Learn more about the work of Global Markets. Change the way you think. About everything. Next Feature Agriculture With its deep connections to the world economy, human societies, and biodiversity, agriculture is one of the most important frontiers for conservation in ecoregions around the globe. Read More Next Feature Fishing Fishing is the principal livelihood for over 200 million people around the world but since the 1950s over 90% of the worlds large fish have disappeared, whilst marine habitats have been devastated by harmful fishing practices. Read More Next Feature Forests Forests play a key role in the world's environmental and economic health, but they are being asked to supply more than they can sustain over the long term. WWF works to ensure that forests are managed in a way that can meet today’s needs, while protecting and restoring their ecological integrity and production capacity for future generations. Read More Next Feature Wildlife Trade 94 of the world's parrot species are considered to be threatened with extinction, largely because of habitat loss and excessive capture for trade. WWF plays an important role in fighting illegal wildlife trade in the international market place.

64. NRDC: Endocrine Disruption - Overview We are working to get endocrine disruptors listed under these important right to know laws so their emissions to air, water, and land can be tracked and reported, and so that if http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/bendrep.asp

@import url(/stylesheets/frame.css); @import url(/stylesheets/main-legacy.css); @import url(/stylesheets/lightwindow.css); @import url(/stylesheets/print.css); Skip to main content NRDC gets top ratings from the charity watchdogs About Us News ... Take Action NRDC's mission is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends. In this Section Main Page Global Warming Energy Air ... All Health Documents Endocrine Disruption An Overview and Resource List Top of Report OVERVIEW The Endocrine System Endocrine Disruptors There is increasing evidence that some synthetic chemicals in our environment may interfere with our bodies' complex and carefully regulated hormonal messenger system. Chemicals can disrupt the endocrine system in several ways. They can mimic or block chemicals naturally found in the body, alter hormonal levels, and thus, affect functions that these hormones control. Less direct interferences involve alteration of the body's ability to produce hormones, interference with the ways hormones travel through the body, and changes in numbers of receptors. In adults hormones mainly regulate ongoing physiologic processes. As a result, adult bodies can sometimes compensate or recover from temporary hormonal modulation. Hormonal effects in the fetus are much more profound because they affect gene expression that governs development of organs as well as lifelong hormonal "set points", such as receptor numbers and hormonal production. In the case of endocrine disruptors and other developmental toxicants, the timing of exposure may be more important than the dose.

65. Home » Health Care Without Harm Collaborative campaign for environmentally responsible health care made up of more than 250 organizations. Work to transform the health care industry so it is no longer a source of environmental harm by eliminating pollution in health care. Also information on endocrine disruptors. http://www.noharm.org/

Home About Newsletters Events ... Login issues Waste Management Toxic Materials Mercury PVC and Phthalates ... Environment and Health Gary Cohen, Uncommon Hero HCWH's co-founder Gary Cohen is a recipient of the prestigious Skoll Award . This video, chronicling the evolution of HCWH's work, premiered at the 2009 Skoll World Forum. enlarge video Health Care Without Harm is an international coalition of more than 470 organizations in 52 countries working to transform the health care sector so it is no longer a source of harm to people and the environment. enlarge video Download Report: Toward the Tipping Point : WHO-HCWH Global Initiative to Substitute Mercury-Based Medical Devices in Health Care. A Two-Year Progress Report (pdf) "Leading the global movement for environmentally responsible health care" Europe SE Asia Global Projects Today's Feature September 22, 2010 Health Care Without Harm Press Release Successful Implementation of Medical Waste Treatment in Tanzania Health Care Without Harm and partners today released a report showing how steam-based disinfection was used in an Tanzanian hospital to treat medical waste rather than incinerating it. more U.S. and Canada

66. Science NetLinks: Making Good Decisions 7C Social Change 2 The decisions of one generation both provide and limit the range of possibilities open to the next generation . 7D Social Tradeoffs 1 Benefits and costs http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.php?BenchmarkID=7&DocID=407

67. Blue Water Technologies, Inc., Blue PRO Phosphorus Removal Process, Advanced Was Offers new technologies to remove phosphorus, nitrate, arsenic, heavy metals, endocrine disruptors and other contaminants from drinking and wastewater utilizing a gravity sand filter system. http://www.blueh2o.net/

advanced water treatment technologies HOME APPLICATIONS ABOUT BLUE WATER PARTNERS ... REP LOGIN CURRENT NEWS Blue Water in the news “We’ve cut TSS and BOD loads to the rest of the plant in half. Other plants visit us to see how the unit works.” more» Blue Water in the news: "It is ironic that the number on the Idaho side is 36, and a foot across the state line it is 42," Daugherty said. more» Blue Water CTO: Remy Newcombe co-authors article published in April 2010 Magazine more Blue Water taps green idea: Hayden concern hopes to generate power by burning sewage more Spokane River: Local Media Coverage of the Spokane River Phosphorus Cleanup Project more WEF: Blue Water CTO Receives Prestigious Water Quality Award more NPDES: Blue Water is awarded low phosphorus permit project more Adsorption 101: A look at the process of adsorption more Salsnes: Hair in Membrane Bioreactors, Getting to the "Root" of the Problem more Salsnes: Salsnes Filter Exceeds Expectations more Salsnes: Where's the Beef? Follow up on a Salsnes Filter industrial application.

68. Endocrine Disruptors/PPCPs - Professional And Technical Resources - AWWA AWWA Public Affairs Director addresses recent news on pharmaceuticals in US water resources http://www.awwa.org/Resources/topicspecific.cfm?ItemNumber=3647&navItemNumbe

69. Environmental Contaminants Program Home Page, U.S. Fish And Wildlife Service, En (1) In addition, endocrine disruptors may affect not just the offspring of mothers exposed to endocrine disruptors during pregnancy, but future offspring as well. http://www.fws.gov/contaminants/Issues/EndocrineDisruptors.cfm

Environmental Contaminants Program Environmental Contaminants Home News and Activities Electronic Library About Us ... Links Featured Topics: Amphibians Endocrine (hormone) Disruptors Invasive Species Migratory Birds ... Something fishy is going on ... GOT A QUESTION? USFWS Customer Service Center 1-800-344-WILD Contact Us Endocrine (Hormone) Disruptors The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, American Pharmacists Association and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America have created a campaign entitled " SMARxT DISPOSAL ." The campaign informs people on how to protect the nation's fish and aquatic resources by safely disposing of medicines. There is mounting concern in the scientific, environmental, private, and governmental sectors on a wide range of substances, known as endocrine disruptors, that may interfere with the normal functioning of a living organism's hormone system. Endocrine disruption has the potential to cause: reproductive behavioral immune system, and

70. TEDX — The Endocrine Disruption Exchange Chemicals Used in Natural Gas Operations http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php

CHLORPYRIFOS added to Critical Windows of Development! Read the Overview or go directly to View the Timeline TEDX publishes on natural gas in scientific journal More... TEDX statement: The Fossil Fuel Connection More... CHEM Trust Report on Pesticides and Cancer More... Two new Videos from TEDX now available! More... Endocrine Disruption Prenatal Origins of Endocrine Disruption Chemicals Used in Natural Gas Operations Pesticides Endocrine Disruption Introduction The Endocrine Disruption Prevention Act of 2009 The Fossil Fuel Connection ... Contact

71. On Tap Magazine -Cover Winter 2003 National Drinking Water Clearinghouse West Virginia University P.O. Box 6064 Morgantown, WV 265066064 They're in the Water They Make Fish Change Sex http://www.nesc.wvu.edu/ndwc/articles/OT/WI03/endocrine_disrupt.html

National Drinking Water Clearinghouse West Virginia University P.O. Box 6064 Morgantown, WV They're in the Water They Make Fish Change Sex Endocrine Disruptors-What are they doing to you? by Kathy Jesperson On Tap Associate Editor kjespers@wvu.edu Scientists have been documenting a series of strange situations lately. In certain places around the world, fish have spontaneously changed sexes. The sexual organs of male alligators in Florida have failed to develop to a mature size. And the thyroid glands of Great Lakes salmon have enlarged. Other peculiar phenomena began cropping up as well: bald eagles have failed to reproduce, male panthers have almost no testosterone, and about seven percent of male tadpoles have developed ovaries. Something must be terribly wrong. Scientists have found that certain chemicals disrupt the endocrine systems of wildlife. Nearly all animals have an endocrine system, including mammals; non-mammalian vertebrates, such as fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds; and invertebrates, such as snails, lobsters, insects, and other species. Because humans also have an endocrine system, these findings have led scientists to ask a serious question: If these chemicals disrupt the endocrine systems in wildlife, what are they doing to humans

72. EESJ - Endocrine Disruptors Case Study. Questions to Ponder and Discuss. Theo Colburn is listed as an author of Our Stolen Future , and she is referenced to in third person in the chapter we included in this http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/eesj/casestudies/endocrine.html

Endocrine Disruptors. Jump down to Reading List Jump down to Endocrine Disruptors Questions to Ponder and Discuss Theo Colburn is listed as an author of "Our Stolen Future", and she is referenced to in third person in the chapter we included in this packet. What do you think of this style of writing? An article in "Environmental Science and Technology" asked, "Will 'Our Stolen Future' be another 'Silent Spring?'" Is this book a good example of activist science writing by a scientist on the ranks of 'Silent Spring?' Do you think the subject of endocrine disruptors became of more interest to the public when the focus shifted from wildlife to human life effects? What role do you think the media played in this? Sharpe and Skakkebaek published their article in "Lancelot" in 1993; a whole body of literature exists that disagrees with their work. Does this article in any way function as Walter Alvarez’s work did (in other words, as a catalyst for more research on estrogen and endocrine disruptors? Check out the "Wall Street Journal" essay by Stephen Safe (8/20/97). Safe is a co-author of some of the work done on disproving endocrine disruptor effects on humans. After all you’ve read, what do you think of the tiny essay by Diane Katz in the corner?

73. Articles - Endocrine Disruptors Group University Of Missouri-Columbia Frederick Articles (in pdf) Problems with viewing some of these pdfs? Get the latest free Acrobat Reader. Myers, J.P. and vom Saal, F.S. Should public health standards for endocrine http://endocrinedisruptors.missouri.edu/pdfarticles/pdflist.html

EDG Home Events and News Articles (in pdf) Bisphenol A references (in Word) Articles (in pdf) Problems with viewing some of these pdfs? Get the latest free Acrobat Reader Myers, J.P. and vom Saal, F.S. Should public health standards for endocrine-disrupting compounds be based upon 16th Century dogma or modern endocrinology? San Francisco Medicine 81(1): 30-31, 2008. Taylor, J.A., Welsons W.V. and vom Saal, F.S. No effect of route of exposure (oral; subcutaneous injection) on plasma bisphenol A throughout 24 hr after administration in neonatal female mice . Reprod. Toxicol. 25:169-176, 2008. Coe, B.L., Kirkpatrick, J.R., Taylor, J.A. and vom Saal, F.S. . Basic Clin. Pharmacol. Toxicol. 102:162-167, 2008. Heindel, J.J. and vom Saal, F.S. Meeting Report: Batch-to-Batch Variability in Estrogenic Activity in Animal Research Environ. Health Perspect. 116:389-393, 2008. Ruhlen, R.L., Howdeshell, K.L., Mao, J., Taylor, J.A., Bronson, F.H., Newbold, R.R., Welshons, W.V. and vom Saal, F.S. . Environ. Health Perspect. 116:322-328, 2008.

74. Hormone Disruptors - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals And Endocrine System Disorde Article about hormone disruptors (endocrine disrupting chemicals) and endocrine system disorders http://www.grinningplanet.com/2005/03-01/endocrine-disruptors-hormone-imbalance-

Get GP free via email ! Cartoons Environment/Energy News Download Topics ... Contact endocrine disruptors (endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)) and hormone imbalance effects "ENGAGE THE GLOBAL TOXIFICATION WEAPON!" SCREAMED THE KLINGON COMMANDER Today we get an overview of how the problem of hormone disruptors arose and where the issue stands. Our article on these endocrine disrupting chemicals comes from Joseph K. Sheldon, Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, and David K. Foster, Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science, also at Messiah College. It has been excerpted from an article they previously published in Christian Scholars' Review by Joseph K. Sheldon and David K. Foster smog event, as they did in Donora, Pennsylvania in October of 1948, and rivers don't catch on fire, as the Cuyahoga River of Cleveland, Ohio did in 1936, 1952, and most famously in 1969. Even sewage treatment has advanced so that every American city has at least secondary treatment, and many plants can remove most of the excess phosphorous and nitrogen before the water is returned to nature's ecosystems. Chemicals that were directly toxic to humans, such as arsenic and nicotine pesticides, and even some chemicals that are known carcinogens, are now largely removed from our food supply.

75. Endocrine Disruption Potential Endocrine Disruptors in the Potomac River Watershed Using Passive Samplers (PWRC) (Also related to Chemistry Passive Samplers) Reproductive Condition and Intersex http://biology.usgs.gov/contaminant/endocrine_disruption.html

USGS Home Contact USGS Search USGS Biology Contaminant Biology Program Biology Discipline About Us Science Center Locations NBII ... Toxicology Endocrine Disruption Endocrine Disruption The ability of environmental contaminants to affect reproductive and developmental processes in fish and wildlife species has long been known. An increasingly persuasive body of evidence indicates that many of these chemicals may be causing such effects through interference and disruption of normal endocrine function. Field observations have correlated abnormal sex organ morphology, unusual sex hormone levels and ratios, and altered physiological and biochemical processes with exposure to environmental contaminants. These developmental end points are under the control of the endocrine system, lending support to the hypothesis that environmental contaminants may disrupt endocrine function. The USGS Contaminant Biology Program investigates the exposure and effects of contaminants on fish and wildlife and focuses on Endocrine Disruption as a part of Toxicology component of the research. It closely collaborates with two other USGS programs - Toxic Substances Hydrology and the National Water Quality Assessment, which conduct research and monitoring (respectively) to determine the presence and chemical fate of contaminants in aquatic environments. Assessment of Health Reproduction in Fishes from the Potomac River and Selected Other Drainages (LSC) Assessment of Selenium and Atrazine Exposure and Effects to Wildlife at the North Platte National Wildlife Refuge, Scottsbluff, Nebraska

76. BfR - Endocrine Disruptors: Substances With Harmful Effects On The Hormone Syste A/2010, 19.04.2010. Endocrine disruptors Substances with harmful effects on the hormone system. Background information for journalists The world is becoming more female was the title http://www.bfr.bund.de/cd/50525

Directly to the content Main menu Remit Organisation Chart Structure Commodities ... Masthead Additional menu Institute Locations Contact Press ... Help Search Advanced Search Deutsch Overview "Press" A/2010, 19.04.2010 Endocrine disruptors: Substances with harmful effects on the hormone system Background information for journalists The hormone system is involved in the steering of almost all bodily functions for instance in energy production and use, regulation of blood pressure and electrolyte metabolism. Reactions to emergency situations (hunger, stress, infection) are steered by hormones as are mood, behaviour, growth, development and reproduction. The hormone system is influenced by numerous internal and external factors. Many natural and synthetic substances can impact the hormone system when they reach the body. Critical doses can on the one hand directly disrupt specific hormone-dependent body functions. Some substances can also influence the hormone system during sensitive development phases like, for instance, the unborn child during pregnancy and, in this way, cause permanent damage to health. Synthetic or natural substances of this kind, which may have harmful effects on the hormone system, are called endocrine disruptors. Endocrine disruptors are not a defined group of substances. One of their properties is that they can have an effect on the hormone system. They may differ from one another in terms of their other properties. Potential endocrine disruptors also include natural ingredients in food like phytohormones, for instance isoflavones in soya but also environmental toxins like PCBs, pesticides like DDT, specific preservatives and components of printing inks and UV light protection substances like benzophenone, heavy metals like cadmium and plasticisers like some phthalic acid esters.

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