EPA Faces Call To Revise Chemical Testing To Assess Endocrine Effects

The Endocrine Society, a group of professional endocrinologists, is calling on EPA and other agencies to revise their chemical testing protocols to better account for substances' potential endocrine-disrupting effects, one of a series of new measures the group is pushing to address concerns that such risks are not adequately assessed. But in a June 26 press release announcing the release of a statement of principles, the group offered a new definition of the term "endocrine-disrupting chemicals" (EDCs) that omits referencing...