EPA Policy on Endocrine Disruptors

Paper Summary:

This paper reports on the EPA's action or lack of action regarding endocrine disruptors in the environment. The paper investigates
what is known and is not known about endocrine disruptors, what is "revisionist thinking" regarding such substances as DDT, and what steps the EPA should take with all the information gathered.

Introduction
Background
Environmental studies
Human studies of EDs
In favor of greater activity by the EPA to limit exposure to EDs
Against the EPA moving more rapidly and purposefully against EDs
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Another EPA issue mentioned in that article concerned girls in the United States. A University of North Carolina study of girls between ages 3 and 12 had found that girls were "developing pubertal characteristics at younger ages than suggested by standard pediatric textbooks." [5] The study had not concluded positively that environmental exposures had been implicated, but it did definitely correlate the risks of early puberty with later breast cancer. The release of estrogens begins at puberty. Women who experienced puberty earlier will have a longer duration of exposure to estrogens, and with it, a greater risk of developing breast cancer."

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