EDC Exposure Costs Exceed €150 Billion Annually in EU
ENDOCRINE SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE. SAN DIEGO, CA and BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – A new economic analysis found exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals likely costs the European Union €157 billion ($209...
View ArticleThe uncertainty factor
For a prominent feature of risk assessment, uncertainty factors attract few publications in the peer-reviewed literature. According to Web of Science, there are only 79 toxicology citations with...
View ArticleSeparating fact from fiction in chemical risk assessments
In this month’s H&E, we present preliminary results from some research being conducted at Lancaster University into the scientific quality of literature reviews in toxicology and chemical risk...
View ArticleChemicals in the circular economy
The “circular economy” is a generic term for a restorative industrial economy whereby economic activity conserves and increases resource rather than depleting it, via two circular flows of biological...
View ArticleEDCs, Scientific Review & the “Manufacture of Uncertainty”
Studies which investigate potential risks to health posed by chemicals vary in design, methodological quality, populations studied, and exposure and health outcomes considered. Even very large,...
View ArticleIs Food Packaging a Blind Spot in Chemical Regulation?
Food contact materials in the EU are not regulated under the REACH chemical laws but instead by legislation which came into force in November 2004, governing “materials and articles intended to come...
View ArticleEnforcement question for pesticide laws
Readers will be familiar with concerns that traditional chemical risk assessment methods give results which are either insufficiently complete (ignoring mixture effects, for example) or insufficiently...
View ArticleEFSA, IARC and the glyphosate controversy
In 2015, IARC published their review of the evidence for carcinogenicity of glyphosate (vol. 112). They concluded that there was “limited” evidence that glyphosate exposure causes cancer in humans, and...
View ArticleEFSA and IARC: apples and oranges?
A month ago, we were speculating as to whether the few extra studies to which the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) had access but the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) did not...
View ArticleWhat can sugar teach us about evidence-based chemical regulation?
This month, we recommend reading “The Sugar Conspiracy”, a Guardian Long Read by science writer and journalist Ian Leslie. The article is interesting because the challenges of developing evidence-based...
View Article
