EDC Science Weekly, Jan. 27 – Feb. 2, 2021

Post author:HEEDS
Post published:February 2, 2021
Post category:EDC Science Weekly

A summary of articles on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) added to PubMed this week.

Contents: Events, Methods/Tools/Screening, Commentaries/Conference Summaries, Reviews, Human Health Studies, Laboratory Studies, Exposure/Environment Studies

Events

Feb 12 M-LEEaD Symposium: Innovations in Relating Real Life Exposures to Chemicals and Chemical Mixtures to Health Outcomes

Feb 16 Webinar: Action on PFAS as part of the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability: an opportunity for disease prevention

Feb 23 Webinar: Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race

Feb 24 Webinar: Toxic Impacts of Plastics’ Chemicals on Fertility: A conversation with Shanna Swan, PhD and Dr. Pete Meyers

March 3 Webinar: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Effects on Mothers, and Interactions with Lifestyle

Methods/Tools/Screening

Toward a Better Testing Paradigm for Developmental Neurotoxicity: OECD Efforts and Regulatory Considerations.

Structure Database and In Silico Spectral Library for Comprehensive Suspect Screening of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in Environmental Media by High-resolution Mass Spectrometry.

High-throughput toxicogenomic screening of chemicals in the environment using metabolically competent hepatic cell cultures.

Causal integration of multi-omics data with prior knowledge to generate mechanistic hypotheses.

Towards improved fish tests in ecotoxicology – Efficient chronic and multi-generational testing with the killifish Nothobranchius furzeri.

The Implementation of the Three Rs in Regulatory Toxicity and Biosafety Assessment: The Indian Perspective.

Commentaries/Conference Summaries

From Wingspread to CLARITY: a personal trajectory.

Plastics in our ocean as transdisciplinary challenge.

Taking a Stand Against Air Pollution-The Impact on Cardiovascular Disease: A Joint Opinion From the World Heart Federation, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and the European Society of Cardiology. Also see related article in Medscape, COVID and Air Pollution: Cardio Societies Call for Urgent Action

Potential Mechanisms behind Air Pollution Toxicity: Findings from Real-World Chronic Exposures. [Science Selection in EHP]

Editorial: The Androgen Receptor in Breast Cancer. [intro to a Research Topic on this topic]

Reviews

Numerous EDCs

Environmental chemicals affect circadian rhythms: An underexplored effect influencing health and fitness in animals and humans.

Epigenetic Regulation of Adipogenesis in Development of Metabolic Syndrome.

Chapters in the book, Environment and Reproductive Health:

Triclosan

Associations of Prenatal Exposure to Triclosan and Maternal Thyroid Hormone Levels: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

The Use of Dried Blood Spots for Characterizing Children’s Exposure to Organic Environmental Chemicals.

Perfluoroalkyl Substances

Legacy and Emerging Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances: Analytical Techniques, Environmental Fate, and Health Effects.

Comparison of currently available PFAS remediation technologies in water: A review.

Pesticides

Effects of the endocrine disruptor vinclozolin in male reproduction: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Effectiveness of interventions to promote pesticide safety and reduce pesticide exposure in agricultural health studies: A systematic review.

Cancer and occupational exposure to pesticides: an umbrella review.

Impacts of Neonicotinoids on Molluscs: What We Know and What We Need to Know.

Review: Feed residues of glyphosate – potential consequences for livestock health and productivity.

Agriculture Development, Pesticide Application and Its Impact on the Environment.

Potentially Toxic Elements

The endocrine disruptor cadmium: a new player in the pathophysiology of metabolic diseases.

Immunotoxicology of cadmium: Cells of the immune system as targets and effectors of cadmium toxicity.

Cadmium exposure and risk of adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of cohort and cohort-based case-control studies.

Microplastics/Nanomaterials

A critical review on marine litter in the Adriatic Sea: Focus on plastic pollution.

Current research trends on micro- and nano-plastics as an emerging threat to global environment: A review.

The COVID-19 pandemic face mask waste: A blooming threat to the marine environment.

Interactions between microplastics, pharmaceuticals and personal care products: Implications for vector transport.

Behavior of Microplastics in Inland Waters: Aggregation, Settlement, and Transport.

Plastic particles in soil: state of the knowledge on sources, occurrence and distribution, analytical methods and ecological impacts.

Toxicological Consequences of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles (TiO₂NPs) and Their Jeopardy to Human Population.

Air Pollution

Application of the navigation guide systematic review methodology to evaluate prenatal exposure to particulate matter air pollution and infant birth weight.

Every breath you take: Impacts of environmental dust exposure on intestinal barrier function – from the gut-lung axis to COVID-19,

Association between exposure to ambient air pollution and hospital admission, incidence, and mortality of stroke: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of more than 23 million participants.

Cardiovascular Effects of Air Pollution: Current Evidence from Animal and Human Studies.

The influence of PM_2.5 exposure on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Pharmaceuticals/Personal Care Products

Toxic effects of NSAIDs in non-target species: A review from the perspective of the aquatic environment.

Ubiquity, Hazardous Effects, and Risk Assessment of Fragrances in Consumer Products.

Miscellaneous

Linking pollution and cancer in aquatic environments: A review.

Human Health Studies

BPA/Phenols

Oxidative Stress, Endocrine Disturbance, and Immune Interference in Humans Showed Relationships to Serum Bisphenol Concentrations in a Dense Industrial Area.

Phthalates

Association between Gestational Phthalate Exposure and Newborn Head Circumference; Impacts by Race and Sex.

Prenatal phthalate exposures and executive function in preschool children.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

Associations of persistent organic pollutants in human adipose tissue with retinoid levels and their relevance to the redox microenvironment.

Breast cancer and DDT: putative interactions, associated gene alterations, and molecular pathways.

Prenatal exposure to organochlorine pesticides is associated with increased risk for neural tube defects.

Perfluoroalkyl Substances

Exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances during fetal life and hospitalization for infectious disease in childhood: A study among 1,503 children from the Odense Child Cohort.

Contrasting prenatal nutrition and environmental exposures in association with birth weight and cognitive function in children at 7 years. [PFAS and BPF]

Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and mercury in never-pregnant women of fertile age: association with fish consumption and unfavorable lipid profile.

PAHs

Methylation of Imprinted Genes in Sperm DNA Correlated to Urinary Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) Exposure Levels in Reproductive-Aged Men and the Birth Outcomes of the Offspring.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure, oxidative potential in dust, and their relationships to oxidative stress in human body: A case study in the indoor environment of Guangzhou, South China.

Pesticides

Health Symptoms Related to Pesticide Use in Farmers and Laborers of Ecological and Conventional Banana Plantations in Ecuador.

Risk factors, incidence, and prevalence of diabetes among rural farm and non-farm residents of Saskatchewan, Canada; a population-based longitudinal cohort study.

Potentially Toxic Elements

Significant Association between Blood Lead (Pb) Level and Haemoglobin A1c in Non-diabetic Population.

Urinary leucine aminopeptidase 3 in population environmentally exposed to airborne arsenic.

Lead exposure and indices of height and weight in Uruguayan urban school children, considering co-exposure to cadmium and arsenic, sex, iron status and dairy intake.

Arsenic exposure in Indo Gangetic plains of Bihar causing increased cancer risk.

Increased urinary arsenic concentration in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus: a gender-independent, smoking-dependent exposure biomarker in older adults in Tehran.

Assessment of the hyperlipidemia risk for residents exposed to potential emitted metals in the vicinity of a petrochemical complex.

Air Pollution

Risk of breast cancer associated with long-term exposure to benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) air pollution: Evidence from the French E3N cohort study.

Association between fine particulate matter and heart failure hospitalizations: a time-series analysis in Yancheng, China.

Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and obesity in school-aged children and adolescents in Jiangsu province of China.

Ambient air pollution and obesity in school-aged children and adolescents: A multicenter study in China.

Risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Exposure to Particulate Matter from Vehicular Traffic: A Case-Control Study.

Ambient air pollution and cerebrovascular disease mortality: an ecological time-series study based on 7-year death records in central China.

Effect of ambient air pollution on tuberculosis risks and mortality in Shandong, China: a multi-city modeling study of the short- and long-term effects of pollutants.

The interactive effects of ambient air pollutants-meteorological factors on confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 120 Chinese cities.

Miscellaneous

A Pilot Study to Examine Psychological and Neuropsychological Outcomes and a Novel Detoxification Program for Gulf War Illness.

Associations of Maternal Androgen-Related Conditions With Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Progeny and Mediation by Cardiovascular, Metabolic, and Fertility Factors.

Laboratory Studies

BPA/Phenols

Low-Dose Bisphenol A in a Rat Model of Endometrial Cancer: A CLARITY-BPA Study.

Elucidation of the Effects of Bisphenol A and Structural Analogs on Germ and Steroidogenic Cells using Single Cell High-Content Imaging.

Neuroendocrine disruption by bisphenol A and/or di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate after prenatal, early postnatal and lactational exposure.

Bisphenols alter thermal responses and performance in zebrafish (Danio rerio).

The influence of phenolic environmental estrogen on the transcriptome of uterine leiomyoma cells: A whole transcriptome profiling-based analysis.

Investigating the glucuronidation and sulfation pathways contribution and disposition kinetics of Bisphenol S and its metabolites using LC-MS/MS-based nonenzymatic hydrolysis method.

4-Octylphenol induces developmental abnormalities and interferes the differentiation of neural crest cells in Xenopus laevis embryos.

[Effects of bisphenol A on apoptosis of ovarian preantral follicular granulosa cells and ovarian development in mice]. [Chinese]

Phthalates

Environmentally relevant mixtures of phthalates and phthalate metabolites differentially alter the cell cycle and apoptosis in mouse neonatal ovaries†.

Exposure to the plasticizer, Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate during juvenile period exacerbates autism-like behavior in adult BTBR T + tf/J mice due to DNA hypomethylation and enhanced inflammation in brain and systemic immune cells.

Exposure of Adult Female Mice to Low Doses of di(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate Alone or in an Environmental Phthalate Mixture: Evaluation of Reproductive Behavior and Underlying Neural Mechanisms.

Maternal exposure to Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) activates the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathway in F1 and F2 generation adult mouse testis.

Effects of dibutyl phthalate on lipid metabolism in liver and hepatocytes based on PPARα/SREBP-1c/FAS/GPAT/AMPK signal pathway.

Monobutyl phthalate can induce autophagy and metabolic disorders by activating the ire1a-xbp1 pathway in zebrafish liver.

Triclosan

Evaluation of Triclosan Exposures on Secretion of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines from Human Immune Cells.

Triclosan-induced abnormal expression of miR-30b regulates fto-mediated m⁶A methylation level to cause lipid metabolism disorder in zebrafish.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

A human relevant mixture of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) differentially affect glutamate induced excitotoxic responses in chicken cerebellum granule neurons (CGNs) in vitro.

The molecular basis of OH-PCB estrogen receptor activation.

2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin prompted differentiation to CD4⁺CD8^–CD25⁺ and CD4⁺CD8⁺CD25⁺ Tregs and altered expression of immune-related genes in the thymus of chicken embryos.

Perfluoroalkyl Substances

Perfluorooctane sulfonate exerts inflammatory bowel disease-like intestinal injury in rats.

¹³C isotope-based metabolic flux analysis revealing cellular landscape of glucose metabolism in human liver cells exposed to perfluorooctanoic acid.

Aquatic toxicity evaluations of PFOS and PFOA for five standard marine endpoints.

Flame Retardants

Embryotoxicity characterization of the flame retardant tris(1-chloro-2-propyl)phosphate (TCPP) in the invertebrate chordate Ciona intestinalis.

Effects of environmentally relevant concentrations of tris (2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP) on early life stages of zebrafish (Danio rerio).

PAHs

In utero exposure to phenanthrene induced islet cell dysfunction in adult mice: Sex differences in the effects and potential causes.

Parental exposure to benzo(a)pyrene in the peripubertal period impacts reproductive aspects of the F1 generation in rats.

Effects of phenanthrene exposure on cholesterol homeostasis and cardiotoxicity in zebrafish embryos.

Pesticides

Embryonic zebrafish response to a commercial formulation of azoxystrobin at environmental concentrations.

Use of Shotgun Metagenomics and Metabolomics to Evaluate the Impact of Glyphosate or Roundup MON 52276 on the Gut Microbiota and Serum Metabolome of Sprague-Dawley Rats.

Melatonin rescues the reproductive toxicity of low-dose glyphosate-based herbicide during mouse oocyte maturation via the GPER signaling pathway.

Intergenerational thyroid hormone homeostasis imbalance in cerebellum of rats perinatally exposed to glyphosate-based herbicide.

Ecotoxicological Studies on the Effect of Roundup^® (Glyphosate Formulation) on Marine Benthic Microalgae.

The effects of fipronil exposure on oxidative stress, non-specific immunity, autophagy, and apoptosis in the common carp.

Thiamethoxam induces nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in mice via methionine metabolism disturb via nicotinamide N-methyltransferase overexpression.

Fetal and lactational exposure of the no-observed-adverse-effect level (NOAEL) dose of the neonicotinoid pesticide clothianidin inhibits neurogenesis and induces different behavioral abnormalities at the developmental stages in male mice.

Potentially Toxic Elements

Evaluation of dietary selenium, vitamin C and E as the multi-antioxidants on the methylmercury intoxicated mice based on mercury bioaccumulation, antioxidant enzyme activity, lipid peroxidation and mitochondrial oxidative stress.

Underlying mechanisms of cytotoxicity in HepG2 hepatocarcinoma cells exposed to arsenic, cadmium and mercury individually and in combination.

Neuroprotective effects of protocatechuic acid on sodium arsenate induced toxicity in mice: Role of oxidative stress, inflammation, and apoptosis.

Transgenerational Effects of Hexavalent Chromium on Marine Medaka (Oryzias melastigma) Reveal Complex Transgenerational Adaptation in Offspring.

Role of inhibiting Chk1-p53 pathway in hepatotoxicity caused by chronic arsenic exposure from coal-burning.

Diverse genetic backgrounds play a prominent role in the metabolic phenotype of CC021/Unc and CC027/GeniUNC mice exposed to inorganic arsenic.

Cadmium exposure impairs pancreatic β-cell function and exaggerates diabetes by disrupting lipid metabolism.

Lead (Pb) exposure induces physiological alterations in the serotoninergic and vasopressin systems causing anxiogenic-like behavior in Meriones shawi: Assessment of BDMC as a neuroprotective compound for Pb-neurotoxicity and kidney damages.

Microplastics

Effects of environmentally relevant levels of polyethylene microplastic on Mytilus galloprovincialis (Mollusca: Bivalvia): filtration rate and oxidative stress.

Microplastics aggravate the bioaccumulation of three veterinary antibiotics in the thick shell mussel Mytilus coruscus and induce synergistic immunotoxic effects.

Long-term nanoplastics exposure results in multi and trans-generational reproduction decline associated with germline toxicity and epigenetic regulation in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Air Pollution

High Level of Real Urban Air Pollution Promotes Cardiac Arrhythmia in Healthy Mice. [related editorial: Fine Particulate Matter: a Threat to the Heart Rhythm.]

Peripheral metabolic effects of ozone exposure in healthy and diabetic rats on normal or high-cholesterol diet.

Pulmonary and vascular effects of acute ozone exposure in diabetic rats fed an atherogenic diet.

Pharmaceuticals/Personal Care Products

Ethinylestradiol (EE2) residues from birth control pills impair nervous system development and swimming behavior of zebrafish larvae.

Early Estradiol Exposure Masculinizes Disease-Relevant Behaviors in Female Mice.

Effects of maternal exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of 17α-ethinyloestradiol in a live bearing freshwater fish, Xenotoca eiseni (Cyprinodontiformes, Goodeidae).

Identification of estrogen receptor target genes involved in gonadal feminization caused by estrogen in Xenopus laevis.

Fetal Programming of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Effects of Androgen Exposure on Prenatal Ovarian Development.

Zygotic exposure to venlafaxine disrupts cortisol stress axis activity in multiple generations of zebrafish.

Mixtures

An in vitro bioassay to assess the potential global toxicity of waters on spermatogenesis: a pilot study.

Synergy between glyphosate and cypermethrin formulations on zooplankton: evidences from a single-specie test and a community mesocosm experiment.

Exposure/Environment Studies

Triclosan

Dioxins and furans toxicity during the photocatalytic remediation of emerging pollutants. Triclosan as case study.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

Paradox of “ideal correlations”: improved model for air half-life of persistent organic pollutants.

Detection and Quantification of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Sulfates in Human Serum.

Multiple persistent organic pollutants in mothers’ breastmilk: Implications for infant dietary exposure and maternal thyroid hormone homeostasis in Uganda, East Africa.

Evaluation of the dioxin-like toxicity in soil samples from Thua Thien Hue province using the AhR-CALUX bioassay – An update of Agent Orange contamination in Vietnam.

Snakes as bimonitors of environmental pollution: A review on organic contaminants.

First assessment of persistent organic pollutants in the Greater rhea (Rhea americana), a near-threatened flightless herbivorous bird of the Pampas grasslands.

Municipal waste landfill as a source of polychlorinated biphenyls releases to the environment.

Perfluoroalkyl Substances

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in serum and associations with food consumption and use of personal care products in the Norwegian biomonitoring study from the EU project EuroMix.

Target and Nontarget Analysis of Per- and Polyfluoralkyl Substances in Wastewater from Electronics Fabrication Facilities.

A Synthetic Biology Approach Using Engineered Bacteria to Detect Perfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) Contamination in Water.

Flame Retardants

Identification of Three Novel Chloroalkyl Organophosphate Triesters in House Dust Using Halogenation-Guided Nontarget Screening Combined with Suspect Screening.

Organophosphate flame retardants and diesters in the urine of e-waste dismantling workers: associations with indoor dust and implications for urinary biomonitoring.

Using meiobenthic taxa, nematofauna biological traits, and bacterial abundance to assess the effects of the polybrominated diphenyl ethers compound: Case study of tetrabromo diphenyl ether BDE-47.

Newly discovered bis-(2-ethylhexyl)-phenyl phosphate (BEHPP) was a ubiquitous contaminant in surface soils from a typical region, South China.

Occurrence, distribution, and potential exposure risk of organophosphate flame retardants in house dust in South Korea.

Pesticides

Occurrences of eight common-used pesticide adjuvants in ten vegetable species and implications for dietary intake in North China.

Health risks to dietary neonicotinoids are low for Chinese residents based on an analysis of 13 daily-consumed foods.

Imidacloprid seed coating poses a risk of acute toxicity to small farmland birds: A weight-of-evidence analysis using data from the grayish baywing Agelaioides badius.

Evidence of Chlordecone Resurrection by Glyphosate in French West Indies.

Measuring urinary concentrations of neonicotinoid insecticides by modified solid-phase extraction-ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry: Application to human exposure and risk assessment.

Pesticides driven pollution in Kuwait: The first evidence of environmental exposure to pesticides in soils and human health risk assessment.

Potentially Toxic Elements

Investigation of toxic heavy metals content and estimation of potential health risks in Chinese herbal medicine.

Air Pollution

Air quality around schools: Part I – A comprehensive literature review across high-income countries.

Particulate matter (PM_2.5) as a potential SARS-CoV-2 carrier.

Abrupt but smaller than expected changes in surface air quality attributable to COVID-19 lockdowns.

COVID-19 driven changes in the air quality; a study of major cities in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Effect of nation-wide lock-down due to Covid-19 over industrial pollution in Delhi, India.

Environmental impacts of pre/during and post-lockdown periods on prominent air pollutants in France.

Pharmaceuticals/Personal Care Products

Emission and ecological risk of pharmaceuticals and personal care products affected by tourism in Sanya City, China.

A review of pharmaceutical occurrence and pathways in the aquatic environment in the context of a changing climate and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Firefighter exposures to organic and inorganic gas emissions in emergency residential and industrial fires.

Miscellaneous

The self-reported behaviour of Iiyiyiu Aschii Cree and the worry about pollution from industrial and hydroelectric development in northern Quebec, Canada.

Inhalation of two Prop 65-listed chemicals within vehicles may be associated with increased cancer risk. [benzene, formaldehyde, DEHP, DBP, and TDCIPP]

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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 Sa…@healthandenvironment.org and ask to join the group EDC_re…@googlegroups.com. Archives are at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/edc_research. Compiled by Sarah Howard, Diabetes and Environment Program and HEEDS at Commonweal.

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Webinar: Fluoride, neurodevelopment, and cognition: a National Toxicology Program monograph
by Sarah Howard on November 19, 2024 at 5:00 pm
This Dec. 3 webinar features Dr. Kyla Taylor of NIEHS who will discuss the results of a National Toxicology Program monograph review that concluded there is "moderate confidence" in the scientific evidence that showed an association between higher levels of fluoride exposure and lower IQ in children.
Webinar: Behind the scenes at EPA: What's gone wrong and what does it mean for our work?
by Sarah Howard on November 19, 2024 at 3:56 pm
This Dec. 9 webinar, Behind the scenes at EPA: what's gone wrong and what does it mean for our work? is part 2 of a series on the future of EPA decision-making. Sponsored by the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE), Earthjustice, and UCSF's Earth Center.
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals: hazards and opportunities (ECHO) course
by Sarah Howard on October 31, 2024 at 2:50 pm
This course focuses on the chemical, biological, and societal challenges of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and new opportunities for moving forward. ECHO is a two-week intensive bootcamp-style career development course for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professionals in the field. It is held at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

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“We have enough evidence” to act on toxic plastic exposure now
by Katherine McMahon,Sarah Howard on November 22, 2024 at 3:31 pm
In a recent commentary published in The Lancet, Dr. Leonardo Trasande of NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine emphasizes the need to address the well-established health harms from exposure to chemical additives used in plastics. “Only through a serious and concerted effort to turn off the plastic tap will we apply the lessons learned from plastic use… and avoid the invisible chemicals used in plastic materials from becoming visible in the form of a larger global pandemic of chronic disease.”
Kids who adopt a gluten-free diet have increased arsenic levels
by Katherine McMahon,Sarah Howard on November 20, 2024 at 1:32 pm
A recent study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology found that children who adopted a gluten-free (GF) diet after being diagnosed with celiac disease had significantly increased arsenic exposure after only six months. “More research needs to be done to determine whether there are long-term effects of this bump, but overall, I think it speaks to the importance of diversifying the grains in the gluten-free diet.”
NIEHS publishes new strategic plan
by Sarah Howard on November 19, 2024 at 6:03 pm
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) published a 2025-2029 strategic plan, "Health at the Intersection of People and Their Environments."

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Trump’s second term could mean fewer protections for drinking water
by EHN Curators on November 21, 2024 at 12:30 pm
Donald Trump’s plans for the Environmental Protection Agency may include rolling back protections against PFAS and other drinking water threats, worrying public health advocates. Hiroko Tabuchi reports for The New York Times.
Kennedy’s fluoride policy faces obstacles
by EHN Curators on November 19, 2024 at 8:28 pm
President-elect Trump’s selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services won’t give him direct control over water fluoridation policies, though his influence could sway public and local debates. Miranda Willson reports for E&E News.
Scientists' Declaration for the Global Plastics Treaty
by Sarah Howard on November 19, 2024 at 5:54 pm
The signatories of this declaration are independent scientists with expertise on plastics, and who are free of conflicts of interest associated with the life cycle of plastics. Read it here and sign it here. Due Nov. 22, 2024.