The World Health Organisation (WHO) called for a co-ordinated internal response to increasing exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). It said increases in the incidence of disease mean that genetic factors cannot be the sole explanation – environmental and other non-genetic factors, such as nutrition, viral diseases and exposure to chemicals, also contribute, but are difficult to identify (7 April). Two weeks later, an earlier WHO report on the scientific evidence for the existence of EDCs was castigated by a chemical industry funded review (24 April). Meanwhile, the US chemical industry’s opposition to DG Environment’s proposals for an EDCs categorisation system similar to that for CMRs was emerged in a US government report on trade barriers (16 April).
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