endocrine system News
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EPA to begin testing pesticides for endocrine disruption
EPA has issued the first list of pesticides to be screened for possibly disrupting the endocrine system. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interact with and possibly disrupt the hormones produced or secreted by the human or animal endocrine system, which regulates growth, metabolism and reproduction. “Endocrine disruptors can cause lifelong health problems -- especially for children,” ...
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EPA orders chemical testing for hormone effects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued the first test orders for pesticide chemicals to be screened for their potential effects on the endocrine system. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interact with and disrupt the hormones produced or secreted by human and animal endocrine systems, which regulate growth, metabolism and reproduction. “After years of delay, EPA is ...
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EPA to Expand Chemicals Testing for Endocrine Disruption
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified a list of 134 chemicals that will be screened for their potential to disrupt the endocrine system. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interact with and possibly disrupt the hormones produced or secreted by the human or animal endocrine system, which regulates growth, metabolism and reproduction. Administrator Lisa P. ...
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EPA to expand chemicals testing for endocrine disruption (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified a list of 134 chemicals that will be screened for their potential to disrupt the endocrine system. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interact with and possibly disrupt the hormones produced or secreted by the human or animal endocrine system, which regulates growth, metabolism and reproduction. Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has ...
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Draft EDSP guidance document available for public review and comment
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in a November 4, 2010, Federal Register notice the availability for public review and comment of a draft guidance document entitled, "Weight-of-Evidence Guidance Document: Evaluating Results of EDSP Tier 1 Screening to Identify Candidate Chemicals for Tier 2 Testing." According to EPA, the purpose of the draft guidance document is "to set ...
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NGOs call for EPA pesticide testing to be updated
The US Environmental Protection Agency have come under fire from leading NGOs for its outdated testing program of endocrine-disrupting chemicals. It is feared that the numerous holes in the current programme fail to detect many serious effects on human development. The Environmental Protection Agency is ready to start testing 67 pesticide ingredients for their possible endocrine disruption ...
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Endocrine Disruption Consultation – Horizontal and Vertical Storage Tanks to Store Chemicals Correctly
The Farmers Guardian details how farmers, agronomics and industry stakeholders are being asked to respond to a public consultation on pesticides and endocrine disruption. The European Commission-driven consultation is seeking views on how to regulate certain chemicals in the environment which may affect the endocrine system which produces, stores and releases hormones. Current proposals may ...
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EPA takes action to stop sales of illegal pesticides
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued legal complaints against two Brooklyn stores for violating federal pesticides law by selling and distributing illegal pesticides. Products used to kill pests must be registered with EPA to ensure that they will not make people sick and contain labels with instructions on their proper use. In September 2011, EPA inspections of two Brooklyn ...
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EPA Uses Cutting-Edge Technology to Evaluate Chemicals for Human Hormone Impacts
EPA is proposing to use ground-breaking tools developed in the ToxCast program to improve testing for chemicals that have the potential to disrupt hormone function in the human body. EPA uses automated chemical screening technologies to rapidly and simultaneously perform tests on thousands of chemicals and feed the results into computational models to predict hormone-related, endocrine activity. ...
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EPA Takes Action To Bring Suffolk County Company into Compliance with Pesticides Regulations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with Air Techniques, Inc. of Melville, New York, to settle violations of federal law governing pesticides. The company, which sell wholesale cleaners and a surface disinfectant that are used to clean instruments, equipment and surfaces in dental offices and medical facilities, sold unregistered pesticides and imported pesticides ...
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EPA Takes Action against Companies that Sell and Import Illegal Pesticides
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued legal complaints against two companies, the Daifuku Trading Corp. of Englewood, New Jersey and the Everyday Group of Brooklyn, New York, for selling unregistered pesticides. Both companies face penalties for violating federal pesticides law. Daifuku faces additional fines for making false and misleading statements on one of its pesticide ...
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Creative Proteomics Lipidomics Launches Steroids Analysis Service
Lipidomics, a platform developed by Creative Proteomics, is dedicated to providing cutting-edge mass spectrometry (MS)-based lipidomics services for biomedical research institutions, and biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies. Creative Proteomics Lipidomics launched the steroid analysis service capable of quantifying up to 38 steroids in biological matrices such as plasma, serum, tissue, ...
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EPA warns New York City residents about dangers of illegal pesticides; agency sweep of businesses in several city neighborhoods reveals illegal products are easy to find
An investigation conducted last week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revealed that dangerous and illegal pesticides are widely available in New York City. Federal and state experts conducted 47 inspections and found 16 different types of illegal pesticides. The pesticides were not registered by EPA and consumers have no way of knowing how dangerous they are, because they were not ...
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U.S. EPA Awards Grant of Nearly $650,000 to University of Calif. Davis
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a research grant of nearly $650,000 was awarded to the University of Calif. Davis to investigate the effect of environmental agents on thyroid hormones and modeling how the chemicals affect organism health. The grant was part of almost $11 million awarded to eight universities through EPA’s Science to Achieve Results (STAR) ...
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Type 2 diabetes may be linked to pesticide exposure
Cambridge University scientists are advocating more research into the possible links between environmental pollution and type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease. At least 171 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes, according to estimates by the World Health Organization. In today's edition of the British medical journal 'Lancet,' Drs. Oliver Jones and Julian Griffin highlight ...
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Increase in cancers and fertility problems may be caused by household chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Chemicals which disrupt the hormone system – also known as 'endocrine disrupting chemicals' (EDCs) – may be a contributing factor behind the significant increases in cancers, diabetes and obesity, falling fertility, and an increased number of neurological development problems in both humans and animals, according to a review of recent scientific literature commissioned by the European ...
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House subcommittee holds hearing on endocrine disrupting chemicals in drinking water
the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Environment held a hearing entitled 'Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Drinking Water: Risks to Human Health and the Environment.' The Subcommittee intended the hearing to examine the science and regulation of endocrine disruptors that may be found in sources of drinking water. Witnesses included: Jim Jones, Deputy Assistant ...
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After the deluge of flooding the politics of toxic mold
For days now, a swollen Mississippi River has menacingly roamed far from its banks, devouring large swatches of picturesque river towns and some of the Midwest's best farmlands. While countless news organizations chronicle both the courage of those fighting 'Big Muddy's' assault and the anguish of those wounded by it, another battle is about to begin. This battle will go all but unseen, for the ...
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Infants at greater risk from food packaging chemical
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a commonly used chemical in the manufacture of food packaging and there are concerns over its safety, particularly for young children. A recent study suggests that there is a five times greater BPA plasma concentration in babies aged between three and six months compared with adults. In 2008, both Canada and the USA raised concerns over the possible harmful effects of BPA on ...
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Pesticide can turn male frogs into females
Atrazine, a herbicide used globally but banned in the EU, can cause chemical castration and complete feminisation in adult male frogs, according to a recent study. The researchers suggest atrazine could contribute to the global decline of amphibians. Atrazine is one of the world's most commonly used herbicides. It is typically used to control weeds in agriculture, such as in the production of ...
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