Draft criteria for chemicals in pesticides and biocides that affect the hormone systems of animals and humans have been approved by the European Commission (EC) and were published on July 4. While the ...

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In a letter to the anti-pesticides activist group PAN Europe, EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg backs the European Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) definition of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, saying ...

The European Parliament last week rejected a narrow definition of endocrine disruptors that would have allowed their use in some cases. The proposal—put forward by the European Commission, the EU’s ...

The Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) has sent an open letter to the Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy Tonio Borg complaining about an Opinion by the European Food Safety ...

The endocrine system is a network of glands that produce and release hormones. These hormones help control many important body functions, including the body's ability to change calories into energy ...

MEPs today blocked a Commission proposal that would have exempted some chemicals from being identified as endocrine disruptors due to wider criteria. The Commission must now come up with a new ...

European Union member states on July 4 adopted a list of criteria for identifying whether the active ingredient in a pesticide is an endocrine disruptor. The benchmarks are expected to set the stage ...

Women receiving endocrine therapy for hormone receptor (HR)–positive breast cancer or its prevention among those at high risk for breast cancer commonly have vasomotor symptoms. Data are lacking on ...