Endocrine Disruptors

• Water Quality

  Home Filtering Systems Provide Best Protection for Drinking Water

  A home filtration system can do more than make your water taste better. It can remove some dangerous pharmaceuticals, mercury, lead, pesticides, and other endocrine disruptors.
• Water Quality

  President’s Anti-Cancer Panel Recommends Home Filtered Water

  Water filter systems can decrease exposure to carcinogens.
• Biomonitoring

  Environmental Chemicals in People: Challenges in Interpreting Biomonitoring Information

  Biomonitoring, the measurement of chemicals in blood, urine, and other tissues or fluids, is becoming an increasingly common tool in the study of human exposure to environmental chemicals; the problem is, it\'s hard to connect with health outcomes (abstract only).
• Endocrine Disruptors

  Are EDCs Blurring Issues of Gender?

  Although scientists have postulated a wide range of adverse human health effects of exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), the nexus of the debate is the concern that prenatal and childhood exposure to EDCs may be responsible for a variety of abnormalities in human sexuality, gender development and behaviors, reproductive capabilities, and sex ratios.