Endocrine Disruption
links to more information
- Beyond Pesticides provides a database to access studies based on real world exposure scenarios that link public health effects, including endocrine disruption, to pesticides.
- Campaign for Safe Cosmetics provides a tool to search products with ingredients linked to endocrine disruption.
- Center for Biological Diversity is taking action to get endocrine disruptors out of waterways and ecosystems.
- Chemicals Health Monitor is an online source linking chemicals and diseases.
- ChemSec bridges the gap between decision-makers, industry, NGOs and scientists in order to get progressive chemical legislation.
- CHEMTrust provides a ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ document on EDCs and their regulation in the European Union.
- ChemView is a database to get information on chemical health and safety data received by EPA and EPA’s assessments and regulatory actions for specific chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
- Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) facilitates networking and dialogue among diverse individuals and groups to address environmental health issues. Because Health offers environmental health educational content and information to make well-informed, healthy, and non-toxic choices.
- Definitions at e.hormone provides definitions for many common terms in endocrine disruption research.
- Dirty Dozen Endocrine Disruptors provides guides and tips to avoid endocrine disruptors.
- EDC Free Europe raises public awareness about endocrine disrupting chemicals and urges quicker governmental action.
- Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP) provides information about EPA’s approach toward and progress on screening chemicals for endocrine effects.
- Environmental Health News (EHN) publishes and contextualizes news stories on environmental topics.
- Environmental Working Group provides useful resources for consumers to protect themselves from health problems attributed to a wide array of toxic contaminants.
- Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) brings independent expertise and evidence from the health community to different decision-making processes.
- Health Care Without Harm offers a leaflet for health care professionals on endocrine disrupting chemicals.
- Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS) helps share and coordinate research efforts in the field of endocrine disruption by sharing links and descriptions of the latest scientific publications related to EDCs and can help to develop regional scientific groups.
- Household Products Database from the National Library of Medicine provides information on products and their potential health effects.
- International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) (with the Endocrine Society) developed an EDC Guide for public interest organizations and policy makers to raise global awareness about endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
- Little Things Matter provides videos to enhance public understanding of how our health is inextricably linked with the environment and to elevate efforts to prevent disease.
- Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) offers information about children’s health, the health effects of pollution, common chemicals, pesticides and scientific integrity.
- Our Stolen Future tracks recent developments in endocrine disruption science.
- Pesticide Action Network (PAN) addresses endocrine disrupting chemicals in pesticides.
- Pesticide Action Network Europe is working to increase regulation of endocrine disrupting pesticides in the European Union.
- Pesticide Action Week is an annual and international event promoting alternatives to pesticides. Their resource pack offers advice to pregnant women and parents on reducing exposure to chemicals and pesticides.
- The chemicals on the SIN (Substitute it Now!) List have been identified by ChemSec as Substances of Very High Concern based on the criteria established by the EU chemicals regulation REACH.
- Smart Plastics Guide addresses the health concerns of using plastics and provides information for reading labels.
- The Toxin and Toxin Target Database (T3DB) is a resource that combines detailed toxin data with comprehensive toxin target information.
- United Nations Environment Programme prepared an assessment of the state of the science of endocrine disruptors with the World Health Organization.
- Women’s Voices for the Earth provides information to change consumer behaviors, corporate practices and government policies.
