A summary of articles on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) added to PubMed this week.
Contents: Events, Regulations/ Policy, Methods/Tools/Screening, Commentaries, Reviews/Meta-Analyses, Human Health Studies, Laboratory Studies, Exposure/Environment Studies
Highlights: MERLON: new EU project on the health effects of EDCs. [see the MERLON website]; microplastics in the human penis; a couple studies on bone mineral density in relation to BPA and cadmium; chemical mixtures and childhood obesity.
Events
June 21 webinar: Public Comments and Engagement in Science Advocacy [National Science Policy Network (NSPN)]
June 25 webinar: Micro- and Nanoplastics and Public Health: EU research findings [EDC Strategies Partnership]
July 2 webinar: Mapping Environmental Injustice: Disparities in chemical exposures and neurodevelopmental outcomes [CHE-Alaska]
July 12 and 31: Virtual symposium: Measuring Microplastics register for July 12; register for July 31 [NYU Langone Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards (CIEH)]
July 24 webinar: 3M’s decades-long cover-up of the “forever chemicals” in your blood [Beyond Plastics]
Sept. 23-24: Plastics and Human Health Symposium [NYU Center for the Investigation of Environmental Hazards (CIEH), save the date]
Oct. 14-16: 8th Annual meeting of the U.S. DOHaD Society: exploring translational DOHaD science: from cells to communities in Chapel Hill, NC [abstracts due Aug. 1]
Regulations/Policy
Methods/Tools/Screening
Commentaries
Reviews/Meta-Analyses
Numerous Chemicals/Mixtures
Parabens/Triclosan/ Antimicrobials
PFAS
Flame Retardants
Pesticides
Microplastics/Nanomaterials
Human Health Studies
Numerous Chemicals/Mixtures
BPA/Phenols
Phthalates
Parabens/Triclosan/ Antimicrobials
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
PFAS
Flame Retardants
Pesticides
Metals/Metalloids
Air Pollution
Laboratory Studies
Numerous Chemicals/Mixtures
BPA/Phenols
Phthalates
Parabens/Triclosan/ Antimicrobials
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
PFAS
Flame Retardants
Pesticides
Metals/Metalloids
Microplastics/Nanomaterials
Miscellaneous
Exposure/Environment Studies
Numerous Chemicals/Mixtures
BPA/Phenols
Conjugated Metabolites of Bisphenol A and Bisphenol S in Indoor Dust, Outdoor Dust, and Human Urine.
Phthalates
Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs
PFAS
Pesticides
Microplastics/Nanomaterials
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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 from dates added to PubMed. To see the searchable archives, please email me and ask to join the EDC Science Weekly group EDC_research@ googlegroups.com. The searchable archives are at https://groups.google.com/ d/forum/edc_research or online at https://heeds.org/category/ edc-science-weekly/. Compiled by Sarah Howard of Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS), a program of Environmental Health Sciences.