EDC Science Weekly, July 22 – 28, 2020

A summary of articles on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) added to PubMed this week. 
 
Contents: Events, Regulations/Policy, Methods/Tools/Screening, Commentaries, Reviews, Human Health Studies, Laboratory Studies, Exposure/Environment Studies
 
Events
 
 
Regulations/Policy    
 
 
 
Commentaries
 
 
 
 
 
Parabens
 
 
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
 
 
 
Flame Retardants
 
 
Pesticides
 
 
 
Potentially Toxic Elements
 
 
Microplastics/Plastics
 
 
 
 
 
 
Air Pollution
Human Health Studies
 
BPA/Phthalates
 
 
 
 
 
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
 
 
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and risk of dementia and Parkinson disease: A population-based cohort study in a North Italian highly polluted area
 
Serum metabolic changes associated with dioxin exposure in a Chinese male cohort
 
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
 
 
 
 
 
 
Flame Retardants
 
 
Pesticides
 
 
Case Report of Central Precocious Puberty in a Female: Role of Environmental Pollutants? [a 5 year old girl; the issue resolved when the family moved away from the farm and pesticides] 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Potentially Toxic Elements  
 
 
 
The relationship of mercury exposure with neurological problems in artisanal gold in Makassar city
 
Air Pollution
 
BPA/Phenols
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Phthalates
 
 
 
 
Mixed plasticizers aggravated apoptosis by NOD2-RIP2-NF-κB pathway in grass carp hepatocytes
 
Parabens/Triclosan/Personal Care Products
 
 
 
 
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
 
 
 
 
 
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
 
 
Flame Retardants
 
 
Pesticides
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Potentially Toxic Elements  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Microplastics/Nanoplastics
 
 
 
 
 
 
Air Pollution
 
 
 
Pharmaceuticals
 
 
 
 
 
Mixtures
 
 
 
 
Biomonitoring of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (dl-PCBs) in human milk: Exposure and risk assessment for lactating mothers and breastfed children from Spain
 
Perfluoroalkyl Substances
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Legacy and emerging organophosphorus flame retardants and plasticizers in indoor microenvironments from Guangzhou, South China [flame retardants and phthalates]
 
Pesticides
 
 
 
 
 
 
Potentially Toxic Elements  
 
 
 
 
 
Microplastics
 
What is in our seas? Assessing anthropogenic litter on the seafloor of the central Mediterranean Sea
 
 
 
 
 
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This list is not meant to be exhaustive, and generally does not include studies on detection, remediation, or treatment of EDCs. Note that journal publication dates may be different than dates added to PubMed. To see the searchable archives, please email me at Sarah@healthandenvironment.org and ask to join the group EDC_research@googlegroups.com. Archives are at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/edc_research. Feel free to forward. Compiled by Sarah Howard, Diabetes and Environment Program and HEEDS at Commonweal.