Science and policy on endocrine disrupters must not be mixed: a reply to a “common sense” intervention by toxicology journal editors

Authors

• Åke Bergman, Stockholm University
• Anna-Maria Andersson, University of Copenhagen
• Georg Becher, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
• Martin van den Berg, Utrecht University
• Bruce Blumberg, University of California
• Poul Bjerregaard, University of Southern Denmark
• Carl-Gustaf Bornehag, Karlstad University
• Riana Bornman, Pretoria Academic Hospital
• Ingvar Brandt, Uppsala University
• Jayne V. Brian, Brunel University
• Stephanie C. Casey, University of California
• Paul A. Fowler, University of Aberdeen
• Heloise Frouin, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans, Sidney
• Linda C. Giudice, University of California
• Taisen Iguchi, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
• Ulla Hass, Danish Technical University
• Susan Jobling, Brunel University
• Anders Juul, University of Copenhagen
• Karen A. Kidd, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
• Andreas Kortenkamp, Brunel University
• Monica Lind, Uppsala University
• Olwenn V. Martin, Brunel University
• Derek Muir, Environment Canada
• Roseline Ochieng, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
• Nicolas Olea, Granada University
• Leif Norrgren, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Erik Ropstad, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science
• Peter S. Ross, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans, Sidney
• Christina Rudén, Stockholm University
• Martin Scheringer, ETH Zurich
• Niels Erik Skakkebaek, University of Copenhagen
• Olle Söder, Karolinska Institute
• Carlos Sonnenschein, Tufts University
• Ana Soto, Tufts University
• Shanna Swan, School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
• Jorma Toppari, University of Turku
• Charles R. Tyler, Exeter University
• Laura N. Vandenberg, Tufts University
• Anne Marie Vinggaard, Danish Technical University
• Karin Wiberg, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• R Thomas Zoeller, University of Massachusetts

Document Type

Article

Department

Paediatrics and Child Health (East Africa)

Abstract

The “common sense” intervention by toxicology journal editors regarding proposed European Union endocrine disrupter regulations ignores scientific evidence and well-established principles of chemical risk assessment. In this commentary, endocrine disrupter experts express their concerns about a recently published, and is in our considered opinion inaccurate and factually incorrect, editorial that has appeared in several journals in toxicology. Some of the shortcomings of the editorial are discussed in detail. We call for a better founded scientific debate which may help to overcome a polarisation of views detrimental to reaching a consensus about scientific foundations for endocrine disrupter regulation in the EU.

Publication (Name of Journal)

Environmental Health

Recommended Citation

Bergman, Å., Andersson, A., Becher, G., Berg, M. v., Blumberg, B., Bjerregaard, P., Bornehag, C., Bornman, R., Brandt, I., Brian, J. V., Casey, S. C., Fowler, P. A., Frouin, H., Giudice, L. C., Iguchi, T., Hass, U., Jobling, S., Juul, A., Kidd, K. A., Kortenkamp, A., Lind, M., Martin, O. V., Muir, D., Ochieng, R., Olea, N., Norrgren, L., Ropstad, E., Ross, P. S., Rudén, C., Scheringer, M., Skakkebaek, N. E., Söder, O., Sonnenschein, C., Soto, A., Swan, S., Toppari, J., Tyler, C. R., Vandenberg, L. N., Vinggaard, A. M., Wiberg, K., Zoeller, R. T. (2013). Science and policy on endocrine disrupters must not be mixed: a reply to a “common sense” intervention by toxicology journal editors. Environmental Health, 12(69), 1-4.
Available at: https://ecommons.aku.edu/eastafrica_fhs_mc_fam_med/3

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