Library Briefing - Health threats from endocrine disruptors - A scientific and regulatory challenge

The European the production or activity of hormones in 1 Commission has started a review of the EU's humans and animals. [...] effects can occur long after the exposure, The fourth implementation report of the and long after the substance has Community Strategy for Endocrine disappeared from the body. [...] The Swedish government has gone The Presidency Conclusions of an informal further and decided on 13 April 2012 to ban meeting of Ministers for Environment in BPA in the packaging of food for children April 2012 call for a “beyond REACH strategy under the age of three and to assess the use for a toxic-free environment addressing of BPA in receipts and tickets, drinking water combination effects of. [...] They advocate the use of REACH to speed up regulation of A report for the European Environment EDs, and the exclusion of EDs from Agency argues for a regulatory framework authorisation under the ‘adequate control’ that deals pragmatically with incomplete route of REACH. [...] addressed to the Members and staff of the European The impacts of endocrine disrupters on wildlife, Parliament for their parliamentary work.