EPA Releases EDSP Management Plan

摘要

THE U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released on June 28, 2012, an Endocrine Disrupter Screening Program (EDSP) "Comprehensive Management Plan." While it's intended for internal use, EPA made the plan available to the public to be consistent with its stated objectives for transparency. The plan and its implications are discussed below. EPA previously released a work plan, referred to as "EDSP21," that described its goals to develop and validate new tools to screen pesticides for EDSP purposes, including computational toxicology methods and high-throughput screens to assess potential toxicity while minimizing conventional whole animal studies.