Scientifically unfounded precaution drives European Commission's recommendations on EDC regulation, while defying common sense, well-established science and risk assessment principles.

Dietrich, Daniel R. and von Aulock, Sonja and Marquardt, Hans and Blaauboer, Bas and Dekant, Wolfgang and Kehrer, James and Hengstler, Jan and Collier, Abby and Gori, Gio Batta and Pelkonen, Olavi and Lang, Florian and Nijkamp, Frans P. and Stemmer, Kerstin and Li, Albert and Savolainen, Kai and Wallace Hayes, A. and Gooderham, Nigel and Harvey, Alan and Barile, Frank A. (2013) Scientifically unfounded precaution drives European Commission's recommendations on EDC regulation, while defying common sense, well-established science and risk assessment principles. Toxicon, 76. A1-A2. ISSN 1879-3150 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2013.10.020)

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Abstract

We, the undersigned editors of prominent journals of pharmacology and toxicology, are drawing your attention to the imminent decisions by the European Commission to enforce a regulatory framework for so-called endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The currently drafted framework is based on virtually complete ignorance of all well-established and taught principles of pharmacology and toxicology, of opinions raised by the European Commission's own competent expert authority (European Food Safety Authority ( EFSA, 2013)), and of critical statements made by member countries, while avoiding asking for support from the European Commission's own scientific expert committees.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:47653
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    15 December 2013
    Published
    24 October 2013
    Published Online
    Notes:Note: The following text was prepared in response to the present discussion regarding the European Commission's recommendations on the so-called “endocrine disrupting chemicals” and is supported by the Editor-in-Chief of Toxicon. It also refers to a letter sent in response to these recommendations and that was undersigned by a group of toxicologists. This or a similar editorial will appear in other toxicology and pharmacology journals.
    Subjects:Medicine > Therapeutics. Pharmacology
    Medicine > Pharmacy and materia medica
    Department:Faculty of Science > Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:28 Apr 2014 08:35
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 10:40
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/47653
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