@article{d6c2bcfa98c241b1b94fc52892b62e5c,
title = "Scientifically unfounded precaution drives European Commission's recommendations on EDC regulation, while defying common sense, well-established science and risk assessment principles",
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{\textquoteright}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{\textquoteright}s own scientific expert committees.",
keywords = "scientifically unfounded precaution , european commission, edc regulation, common sense, science, risk assessment , endocrine disrupting chemicals",
author = "Dietrich, {Daniel R} and {von Aulock}, Sonja and Hans Marquardt and Bas Blaauboer and Wolfgang Dekant and James Kehrer and Jan Hengstler and Abby Collier and Gori, {Gio Batta} and Pelkonen, {Olavi Pelkonen} and Florian Lang and Nijkamp, {Frans P} and Kerstin Stemmer and Albert Li and Kai Savolainen and Hayes, {A Wallace} and Nigel Gooderham and Alan Harvey",
note = "The text was prepared in response to the present discussion regarding the European Commission{\textquoteright}s recommendations on the so-called “endocrine disrupting chemicals” and is supported by the editors and associate editors of Toxicology in Vitro, Bas Blaauboer, Frank Barile, Daniel Acosta Jr, Billy Day and Kerstin Stemmer. 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.",
year = "2013",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1016/j.tiv.2013.07.001",
language = "English",
volume = "27",
pages = "2110--2114",
journal = "Toxicology in Vitro",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "7",
}