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May 22, 2015
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US PUSHES FOR THRESHOLD LEVELS PRIOR TO THE EU BANNING ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/22/eu-dropped-pesticide-laws-due-to-us-pressure-over-ttip-documents-revealAn article in The Guardian today says the European Union has dropped plans to regulate chemicals including many pesticides that disrupt hormones because of pressure from the US over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. The US push for impact assessments has pushed the proposed regulation of 31 chemicals back till at least 2016.
An EU study showing that diseases caused by these chemicals cost Europeans at least 150 billion pounds per year and lead to increases in diseases including cancer, abnormal neurologic development and infertility gave initial strong support to the proposed ban.
Canada and Brazil also lobbied against the proposed bans.
According to the article a Commission spokesperson said:

“A common theme in the lobby missives was the need to set thresholds for safe exposure to endocrines, even though a growing body of scientific results suggests that linear threshold models – in which higher doses create greater effects – do not apply to endocrine disruptors.

“The human endocrine system is regulated by hormones and the hormone receptors are sensitive to low doses,” said Hans Muilerman, PAN Europe’s chemicals coordinator. “In animal toxicity studies, effects are seen from low doses [of endocrines] that disappear with higher ones. But in the regulatory arena, lower doses are not tested for.”

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