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

Daniel R.  Dietrich; Sonja  von Aulock; Hans  Marquardt; Bas  Blaauboer; Wolfgang  Dekant; James  Kehrer; Jan  Hengstler; Abby  Collier; Gio Batta  Gori; Olavi  Pelkonen; Florian Lang; Frans P. Nijkamp; Kerstin  Stemmer; Albert  Li; Kai  Savolainen; A.  Wallace Hayes; Nigel  Gooderham; Alan Harvey; Frank A.  Barile

doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2013.10.020

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

Daniel R. Dietrich, Sonja von Aulock, Hans Marquardt , Bas Blaauboer, Wolfgang Dekant, James Kehrer, Jan Hengstler, Abby Collier, Gio Batta Gori, Olavi Pelkonen, Florian Lang, Frans P. Nijkamp , Kerstin Stemmer, Albert Li , Kai Savolainen, A. Wallace Hayes, Nigel Gooderham, Alan Harvey, Frank A. Barile

Strathclyde Institute Of Pharmacy And Biomedical Sciences

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	A1-A2
Number of pages	2
Journal	Toxicon
Volume	76
Early online date	24 Oct 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2013.10.020
Publication status	Published - 15 Dec 2013

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scientifically unfounded
european commission
EDC regulation
risk assessment
endocrine disrupting chemicals
toxicology

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Dietrich, D. R., von Aulock, S., Marquardt , H., Blaauboer, B., Dekant, W., Kehrer, J., Hengstler, J., Collier, A., Gori, G. B., Pelkonen, O., Lang, F., Nijkamp , F. P., Stemmer, K., Li , A., Savolainen, K., Wallace Hayes, A., Gooderham, N., Harvey, A., & Barile, F. 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2013.10.020

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