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ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS

with the last 6-months titles/abstracts published in leading Journals

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updated April 3, 2008

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Agencies - Homepages - Institutions
Organizations - Web resources

Agencies (government) USA  -  International
American Plastics Council

ATSDR - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

ATSDR's Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database

CERHR - Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction

Chemical Industry Homepage

Danish Environmental Protection Agency

ECOTOX Database System

Endocrine Disruptors

Endocrine Disrupters Assessment Activities (OECD)

Endocrine disruptor related sites

Endocrine disruptors

Endocrine disruptors (actions in Europe)

Endocrine disruptors Beauty Secrets

Endocrine Disruptors Block Sperm Function - New Evidence That

Endocrine disruptors: Agents under study end End Points

Endocrine disruptors binding affinities database (needs authorization)

Endocrine Disruptor Research Initiative Project Inventory pages (EPA)

Endocrine disruptors: the endocrine theory

Endocrine Disruptors (Information and Computing Infrastructure for)

Endocrine Disruptors Research Initiative

Endocrine/Estrogen Letter

Endocrine modulators study group (European Chemical Industry Council)

ENDS environmental links

Environmental Agencies of the World

Environmental Education Links

Environmenmtal Research Foundation (Rachel's) (browse issues)

EPA - Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.A.)

European Commission

European Commission Biotechnology Program

European Commission - Endpcrine disruptors web site

European Commission - Environment

European Commission - Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General

European Environment Agency

FDA search page

Finnish Environment Institut

Green Pages

Greenpeace

International Program on Chemical Safety

International Society for Environmental Ethics

Internet Resources for the Environmental Scientist

IRIS - Integrated Risk Information System (substance list)

MAFF (The UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)

Monsanto

NIEHS - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

NIEHS - NIH National Toxicology Program

NIEHS - NIH National Toxicology Program - news archive

NIOSH - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards

NCAP - Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides

OECD - Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development Chemicals Programme

OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Office of pollution prevention and toxics (EPA, U.S.A.)

Office of prevention, Pesticide and Toxic Substances

Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances

Reproductive Toxicology Group

Reprotox: Environmental Hazards to Human Reproduction and Development

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Society of risk analysis

Society of Toxicology

Statistics Agencies (USA & International)

Stockholm Convenion on POPs

Toxicology - Biological (or Medical) and Environmental

TEHIP - Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program

UK Department of Health

UK Environment Agency

UNEP - United Nations Environmental Programme

Union of Concerned Scientists: Agriculture and Biotechnology

WHO - Endocrine Disruptors (through Google)

WHO - Protection of the Human Environment

WHO Fact Sheets Index

WTO

 


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Aldrin & Dieldrin

Alkylphenol Ethoxylate and Alkylphenols (pdf)

Alkylphenols

Alkylphenols: concentration ranges in various matrices

Alkylphenols: facts about the safety

Alkylphenols: Methods to be Standardized for Detecting Nonylphenols

Alkylphenols: uses

Androgen Receptor Binding & Transcriptional Activation

Antifoulants

Aryl hydrocarbon receptor binding of Halogen-Aromatic Xenobiotics

ATSDR Priority List

ATSDR Science Corner

Benzene

Biodegradability of chemical substances

Bisphenol A

Bisphenol A Diglycidyl Ether (BADGE)

Bisphenol A Web Page

Brominated flame retardants

Cadmium toxicology

Cadmium Bioavailability

Cancer & Chemicals

CAS number to find compounds

Center for the Study of Environmental Endocrine Effects

Chemical Pollution

Chemical reactivity worksheet (downloadable)

Chemical Reference Links by Chemical Name (with CAS number)

Chemical Warfare Agents: Chemistry, Toxicology and Environmental Aspects

Chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity

Chemicals Associated with Endocrine System Effects

Chemicals fate in the environment (Database) - DBEFC

Chlordane

Chlorinated Solvents

Chromium Information Page

Coating Alternatives Index

Coatings

Color Additives

Cosmetics

Cosmetics Additives

Cosmetics harmful elements?

Cosmetics Safety

Cytochrome P450: inducing drugs

DDD, DDE, DDT

Development & Chemicals

Dioxin: useful links

Dioxin Conference

Dioxin Dose-Response Modeling

Dioxin WHO fact sheet

Dioxin like Toxicity Factors (Dioxins, Furans, PCBs)

Dioxins and Related Compounds

Endangered species

Endocrine & Chemicals

Endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment

Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program; Proposed Statement of Policy

Endocrine Disruptors

Endocrine Disrupters Assessment Activities (OECD)

Endocrine disruptor related sites

Endocrine disruptors

Endocrine disruptors: Agents under study end End Points

Endocrine disruptors (risk and extent)

Endocrine Disruptor Research Initiative Project Inventory pages (EPA)

Endocrine disruptors: the endocrine theory

Endocrine Disruptors Research Initiative

Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program Web Site

Endocrine disruptors: the PROCEEDINGS for TestSmart

Endocrine/Estrogen Letter

Endrin

Environmental Estrogens

Environmental Estrogens and Other Hormones

Environmental "hormones" (Bibliography)

Environmental pollution

Ethoxyresorufin deethylase activity

European Environment Agency (EEA)

Formaldehyde

Health Effects of Chemicals (by pathology / apparatus)

Heavy metals toxicity

Heptachlor

Herbicide Name List

Herbicide History

Herbicides, Including Phenoxy Herbicides and Associated Dioxins

Hexachlorobenzene

Hormone Disruptors

Immune & Chemicals

Inks

Lead (1) (2)

Lead Archive (pdf)

Lindane

Low dose effects

Male reproductive health problems

Mechanisms of hormone disrupting toxicity

Mercury

Metabolic pathways (maps-reactions-images)

Mirex

Movement of Pesticides in the Environment (1) (2)

Nervous & Chemicals

PAH relative potencies

Paraffins (short chain chlorinated -)

Parabens

PCB (see Polychlorinated biphenyls)

PCB Home Page at EPA

Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals (RECETOX - TOCOEN)

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Persistent Toxic Substances Contamination of the European Region"

Pesticide characteristics (by common name)

Pesticide classification

Pesticide calssified lists

Pesticide common names

Pesticide common names (with structure & properties)

Pesticide Debate

Pesticide fact sheets (1 - 2)

Pesticide formulae

Pesticide management and pollution

Pesticide new ingredients (fact sheets)

Pesticide Poisoning Handbook

Pesticide properties database

Pesticide Trade Names

Pesticides (Alternatives to)

Pesticides (searchable by chemical, common and trade names)

Pesticides in Food

Pesticides, Metals & Industrial Chemicals

Pesticides, Toxins, Endocrine Disruptors - 2004

Phthalates

Phthalates: Health Effects of DEHP in Rodents May Not Apply to Humans

Phthalates and Reproduction

Phthalate esters panel

Phthalate - DEHP (RTECS #: TI0350000)

Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Phytoestrogens: Dual Effects of-  Result in U-Shaped Dose-Response Curves

Plastics info

Plastics Resource

Plasticx Universe

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Structure Index

Polychlorinated biphenyls (1 - 2  - 3 - 4 - 5)

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS AND THE THYROID GLAND - MINIREVIEW

Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) - World-Wide Contaminated Sites

Priority List of Hazardous Substances (ranked)

Priority testing list (browse the list)

PVC-free alternatives

Reproductive system & Chemicals

Reproductive Toxicity Study Abstracts (by substance)

Reprotox

Screening and testing for endocrine disrupters

Solvent Handbook Database System (SHDS)

Solvent Substitution Data System (HSSDS)

Solvent Substitution Tools

Teratology (Developmental Abnormalities in Laboratory Mammals)

Tetrachloroethylene

Thyroid Function, PCBs, and Brain Damage

Top 20 Hazardous Substances

TOX-FAQs (substance-based)

Toxaphene

Toxic and Hazardous Substances (A-B, C, D-G, H-N, O-Z)

Tributyltin (EXTOXNET)

Tributyltin toxicity

Tributyiltin (oxide)

Trichloroethylene (TCE)

Xenobiotic-metabolizing cytochrome P450 enzymes in human lung (pdf - html)

Xylene

 



USEFUL PAPERS & DOCUMENTS

the list is growing: please come back soon for new entries

1) Statement on "Environmental Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: Neural, Endocrine, and Behavioral Effects"
(Erice - Italy, International School of Ethology - 1995)

2) Endocrine screening methods workshop report: detection of estrogenic and androgenic hormonal and antihormonal activity for chemicals that act via receptor or steroidogenic enzyme mechanisms
(Reproductive Toxicology 11 (1997) 719-750)

3) EPA Special Report on Environmental Endocrine Disruption: an effect assessment and analysis

(US EPA, February 1997)

4) Endocrine disrupting substances. Impairement of reproduction and development

(Swedish Envirnmenal Protection Agency, 1998)

5)Principles and methods for assessing allergic hypersensitization associated with exposure to chemicals
(WHO/UNEP/ILO Environmental Health Criteria 212 - 1999)

6) Principles for the assessment of risks to human health from exposure to chemicals
(WHO/UNEP/ILO Environmental Health Criteria 210 - 1999)

7) Threshold of Toxicological Concern for Chemical Substances Present in the Diet: A Practical Tool for Assessing the Need for Toxicity Testing
(Food and Chemical Toxicology 38 (2000) 255-312)

8) Estrogenicity and Endocrine Disruption
(Council for Agricultural Science and Technology - Issue paper num. 16, 2000)

9) Principles for evaluating health risks to reproduction associated with exposure to chemicals
(WHO/UNEP/ILO Environmental Health Criteria 225 - 2001)

10) Principles And Methods For The Assessment Of Risk From Essential Trace Elements
(WHO/UNEP/ILO Environmental Health Criteria 228 - 2001)

11)Biomarkers in risk assessment:   Validity and validation
(WHO/UNEP/ILO Environmental Health Criteria 222 - 2001)

12)Endocrine Disruptors Low-Dose Peer Review
(NIEHS National Toxicology Program's Report, August 2001)

13)Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - 2001

14) The endocrine disrupters: a major medical challenge
(Food and Chemical Toxicology 40 (2002) 781-788)

15)Children ’s health and environment: A review of evidence
(WHO Regional Office for Europe- Environment lissue report num. 29, 2002)

16)Global assessment of the state-of-the-science of endocrine disruptors

17)Integrated Risk Assessment
(Report Prepared for the WHO/UNEP/ILO International Programme on Chemical Safety - 2002)

18)Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives
(Fifty-ninth meeting - Geneva, 4-13 June 2002 - SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS)

19)In VitroTest Methods for Detecting Endocrine Disruptors
(ICCVAM and NICEATM Expert Panel Report on the Current Status - 2002)

20)Proposed List of Substances for Validation of In Vitro Endocrine Disruptor Screening Method
(ICCVAM evaluation report - 2002)

21) Comparative analysis of substances recommended for validation in the Androgen Receptor Binding / Transcriptional Activation
(ICCVAM and NICEATM In Vitro Endocrine Disruptor Screening Assays - 2002)

22) Evaluation of In Vitro Test Methods for Detecting Potential Endocrine Disruptors: Estrogen Receptor and Androgen Receptor Binding and Transcriptional Activation Essays

(NIH Publication No: 03-4503, 2003)

 
 



Browse titles/abstracts published in the last 6 months in leading journals
(PubMed - National Library of Medicine)

American J Industrial Medicine
Annals of Agricultural and Enviromental Medicine
Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol
Archives of Environmental Health
Archives of Toxicology
British Medical Journal online free
Cell Biology and Toxicology
Critical Reviews in Toxicology
Ecological Research (Journal site)
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Research
EPA Journal
Food and Chemical Toxicology
Fundamental and Applied Toxicology
Human and Experimental Toxicology
Indoor air
JAMA
Journal of Analytical Toxicology
Journal of Applied Toxicology

Journal of Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology
Journal of Clinical Investigation online free
Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health (Part A) (Part B)
Molecular Ecology
Molecular Medicine Today
Nature Biotechnology

Nature Cell Biology

Nature Genetics

Nature Immunology

Nature Medicine

Nature Neuroscience

New England Journal of Medicine
New Scientist
Pharmacological Research
Pharmacology
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Publications of Ecological Soc. of America (Journal site)
Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
Reproductive Toxicology
Science
Toxicology
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
Toxicology and Industrial Health
Toxicology Modeling (Journal site)
Toxicology Letters
Waste Management & Research (Journal site)

 
Journal Impact Factors on the web




Selected toxic substances:
last 6-months publications (PUBMED)
growing...

Adipate
Agent Orange
Aldicarb
Aldrin
Alkylphenol
Aluminium
Anthracene
Aroclor
Atrazine
Bisphenol
Cadmium
Carbaryl
Chlordane
Chromium
Cobalt
DDE

DDT
Dimethomorph
Dioxin
Endosulfan
Fungicides
Hexachlorobenzene
Hexachlorocyclohexane
Insecticides
Lead
Lindane

Malathion
Mercury
Nickel
Organochlorines
Organophosphates
Organotin
Paraben (butyl)
Paraben (ethyl)
Paraben (methyl)
Paraben (propyl)
Paraquat
Parathion
PCB
Pentachlorophenol
Pesticides
Phthalates
Plasticizers
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Propiconazole
Pyrethroids
Tert-butylhydroperoxide
Tributyltin
Trichloroethylene
Trifluralin
Vinclozolin
(poly)Vinyl chloride


last 6-months publications on
aryl hydrocarbon receptor
peroxisome proliferators activated receptors (PPAR)

Browse Internet for Toxic Substances
of environmental concern
growing...

Adipate
Alkylphenol
Anthracene
Aroclor
Atrazine
Bifenthrin
Bisphenol
Bromacil
Cadmium
Carbaryl
Chlordane
Chlorothalonil
Chlorpyrifos
Chromium
Cobalt
Dazomet
DDT
Dichlobenil
Dioxin
Esfenvalerate
Fungicides
Glyphosate
Hexachlorocyclohexane
Imazapyr
Insecticides
Lead

Lindane
Mancozeb
Mercury (1 - 2)
Metaldehyde
Nickel
Organochlorines
Organotin
PCB
Permethrin
Pesticides
Phthalates
Picloram
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Prometon
Propiconazole
Strychnine

Teflon
Tert-butylhydropeoxide
Tributyltin
Triclopyr
Trifluralin
Vitamin A
(poly)Vinyl chloride


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