The National Toxicology Program has released a preliminary report from the scientific peer review it  oversaw of low dose effects by endocrine  disrupting substances.

The panel confirmed the existence of low dose effects in certain compounds, including estradiol (natural estrogen), nonylphenol (an industrial chemical) and genistein (a plant estrogen).

They also acknowledged that while contradictory results have been obtained in studies of another industrial compound, bisphenol A, the methods used by the labs studying bisphenol A were sound. They point to a number of factors that might have led to the contradictory results.

More at: http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/lowdose/2000-10ntppanelreport.htm

october 2000:

From: "OCPL Announcements"  ocpl-announce@niehs.nih.gov |

"The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program, which is headquartered at NIEHS, today made available expert panel reports on the possible reproductive hazards of seven plasticizers and asked for public and scientific comment on them." For the rest of the story see the full press release at http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/news/phthcom.htm

Office of Pesticide Program  Communications Services Branch

Phone: 703-305-5017 Fax: 703-305-5558

October 15, 1999

EPA Launches Website for Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program. On October 13, EPA?s Office of Science Coordination and Policy launched the web site for EPA?s Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP). The web address is http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/oscpendo/index.htm.

The EDSP web site presents a discussion of the endocrine system and how certain chemicals can affect it, and an overview of the proposed screening program, with links to detailed sections on each program element. The web site incorporates the historical background information gathered during the Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee process, as well as information on current program activities, including the status of test standardization and validation activities, priority setting database development, and automated high throughput technology development.

Endocrine disrupting pesticides . Effects on brain

Risks associated with chemical treatment residues in buildings:

The following statistics give some indication of the extent of chemical treatments used. In the United States, 75 per cent of households used at least one pesticide product indoors during one year, and there were measurable levels of up to a dozen pesticides found in air inside homes.

According to the World Health Organisation's European Charter on Environment and Health every individual is entitled to 'an environment conducive to the highest attainable level of health and wellbeing'; public policy that 'the health of every individual, especially those in vulnerable and high-risk groups, must be protected'.

to the suppression of the brain's release of hormones that stimulate the gonads (the gonadotrophic hormones, which are follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and leutinizing hormone (LH)).

Some organophosphates have been associated with decreased egg production and reduced serum luteinizing hormone (LH) in birds, and similarly, carbamates have been associated with a reduced number of eggs.....

See also under "Bisphenol" at the chemical- list.