Endocrine Disruption

The European Commission Research page on Endocrine Disruption focuses on endocrine disrupter research in Europe and gives an overview of the European Union's activities in this field.

Community Strategy for Endocrine Disrupters This document, published in November 2007 is the third progress report on the implementation of the European Commission strategy and covers the period 2004–2006. It contains activities in the short, medium and long term.

The book Our Stolen Future brought world-wide attention to scientific discoveries about endocrine disruption and the fact that common contaminants can interfere with the natural signals controlling development of the fetus. This website tracks recent developments.

List of websites devoted to endocrine disruption. (Not very up to date, some broken links but still some interesting finds...)

Workshop report "Endocrine Disruptors and Human Health: An overview of the current state of knowledge and regulatory activity" by the Interdepartmental Group on Health Risks from Chemicals (IGHRC)

Information on Regulations, Food Safety, Pesticides etc.

EFSA 2007 Annual Report on Pesticide Residues

Food safety site of the European commission: legislation, regulation, reports

ECETOC European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicologgy of Chemicals: technical resource for the assessment of health effects and environmental impact, risk assessment tools, mixtures, chemicals in human tissues, reports

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: The JMPR Report and Evaluations of Pesticide residue in food are published annually and available on this website.

National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC): information about pesticides and pesticide-related topics. NPIC is a cooperative agreement between Oregon State University and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A-Z index information about toxic substances and how they affect our health including: characteristics, exposure risks, associated health effects, related CDC and ATSDR health studies and assessments.

WHO: Guidelines for predicting dietary intake of pesticide residues

Useful Databases

EU pesticides database: search for active substances, products and pesticides. The system allows to search for the Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) of one or several pesticides) for a set of products or to display for a given product the full list of pesticides and their relative MRLs.

Database maintained by the Pesticide Action Network North America. Find products and the chemicals they contain, also links to least-toxic alternatives...

ACToR (Aggregated Computational Toxicology Resource) is a collection of databases collated or developed by the US EPA National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT).

NPIC info base search: National Pesticide Information Center NPIC

TOXNET - Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases provided by the United States National Library of Medicine

Compendium of Pesticide Common Names

Miscellaneous

European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS)

"Woman and Science" relevant EC Documents