EDC Science Weekly, Dec. 11 – 17, 2019 – HEEDS

EDC Science Weekly, Dec. 11 – 17, 2019

Post author:HEEDS
Post published:December 17, 2019
Post category:EDC Science Weekly

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

Contents: Regulations/Policy, Methods/Screening, Reviews, Human Health Studies, Laboratory Studies, Exposure/Environment Studies.

Regulations/Policy

OECD approaches and considerations for regulatory evaluation of endocrine disruptors. [review]

Guidelines on the benefit-risk assessment of the presence of phthalates in certain medical devices covering phthalates which are carcinogenic, mutagenic, toxic to reproduction (CMR) or have endocrine-disrupting (ED) properties. [full text pdf version here]

Inventory and evaluation of publicly available sources of information on hazards and risks of industrial chemicals.

Methods/Screening

Embryo bioassays with aquatic animals for toxicity testing and hazard assessment of emerging pollutants: A review.

A tiered high-throughput screening approach for evaluation of estrogen and androgen receptor modulation by environmentally relevant bisphenol A substitutes.

Computational evaluation of interactions between organophosphate esters and nuclear hormone receptors. [uses Endocrine Disruptome, an online computational tool]

Concentration-response evaluation of ToxCast compounds for multivariate activity patterns of neural network function.

A novel lipidomics-based approach to evaluating the risk of clinical hepatotoxicity potential of drugs in 3D human microtissues. [for pharmaceuticals]

Reviews

Commentaries/Conference Summaries

New Toxicology Tools and the Emerging Paradigm Shift in Environmental Health Decision-Making. [Commentary re a 2018 National Academies workshop]

Pesticides

Mechanisms of action of agrochemicals acting as endocrine disrupting chemicals.

Fungicides, herbicides and bees: A systematic review of existing research and methods.

Potential Risk to Pollinators from Nanotechnology-Based Pesticides.

Potentially Toxic Elements

Trace Element Status and Hypothyroidism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

The Effects of Heavy Metals on Human Metabolism.

Textile dyeing industry: environmental impacts and remediation.

Microplastics

Potential health impact of environmental micro- and nanoplastics pollution.

Microplastics in the environment: A DPSIR analysis with focus on the responses.

Air Pollution

Effects of ambient particulate matter on fasting blood glucose: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Neurobehavioral Consequences of Traffic-Related Air Pollution.

Towards a fuller assessment of the economic benefits of reducing air pollution from fossil fuel combustion: Per-case monetary estimates for children’s health outcomes.

Exposure to outdoor air pollution and its human-related health outcomes: an evidence gap map.

Fine particulate air pollution and human mortality: 25+ years of cohort studies.

Mixtures

Chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKDu): Using a system dynamics model to conceptualize the multiple environmental causative pathways of the epidemic.

Miscellaneous

The chemical exposome of type 2 diabetes mellitus: Opportunities and challenges in the omics era. [physical and chemical environment, including POPs, phthalates, metals, air pollution, pesticides, etc.]

The metabolome: A key measure for exposome research in epidemiology.

Endocrine Disruption and Reproductive Pathology.

Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease: A Nutritional Toxicology Perspective of the Impact of Oxidative Stress, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Nutrigenomics and Environmental Chemicals.

Perinatal programming of metabolic diseases: the role of glucocorticoids.

Influence of mental stress and environmental toxins on circadian clocks – implications for redox regulation of the heart and cardioprotection.

A guide to crystal- and nano- or microparticle-related tissue responses.

Human Health Studies

Perfluoroalkyl Substances

Are perfluorooctane sulfonate alternatives safer? New insights from a birth cohort study.

Maternal serum levels of perfluoroalkyl substances in early pregnancy and offspring birth weight.

Profiles of Emerging and Legacy Per-/Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Matched Serum and Semen Samples: New Implications for Human Semen Quality.

Perfluoroalkyl substances and likelihood of stroke in persons with and without diabetes.

Flame Retardants

Association between Thyroid Function and Exposures to Brominated and Organophosphate Flame Retardants in Rural Central Appalachia.

Pesticides

Agricultural work and reduced circulating uric acid are both associated with initial hospital admission for Parkinson’s disease.

Pesticide exposure and diabetes mellitus in a semi-urban Nepali population: a cross-sectional study.

Potentially Toxic Elements

Blood screening for heavy metals and organic pollutants in cancer patients exposed to toxic waste in southern Italy: A pilot study.

Association of urinary metal concentrations with blood pressure and serum hormones in Spanish male adolescents.

Central hemodynamics in relation to low-level environmental lead exposure.

Evaluation of the effects of chronic occupational exposure to metallic mercury on the thyroid parenchyma and hormonal function.

Air Pollution

Maternal exposure to air pollution and the risk of small for gestational age in offspring: A population-based study in Taiwan.

Air quality and obesity at older ages in China: The role of duration, severity and pollutants.

Long-term ambient fine particulate matter and DNA methylation in inflammation pathways: results from the Sister Study.

Personal exposure to NO2 and benzene in the Cape Town region of South Africa is associated with shorter leukocyte telomere length in women.

Self-reported traffic-related air pollution and respiratory symptoms among adults in an area with modest levels of traffic.

Associations between air pollution and cardio-respiratory physiological measures in older adults exercising outdoors.

Geometric indexes of heart rate variability in healthy individuals exposed to long-term air pollution.

Association Between Ambient Air Pollution and Elevated Risk of Tuberculosis Development.

Maternal exposure to fine particulate matter from a large coal mine fire is associated with gestational diabetes mellitus: A prospective cohort study.

Ambient Airborne Particulates of Diameter ≤1 μm, a Leading Contributor to the Association Between Ambient Airborne Particulates of Diameter ≤2.5 μm and Children’s Blood Pressure.

Long-term fine particulate matter exposure and cardiovascular mortality in the general population: a nationwide cohort study.

Mixtures

Complex contaminant mixtures and their associations with intima-media thickness. [POPs, metals, etc.]

Miscellaneous

Early pregnancy exposure to benzotriazoles and benzothiazoles in relation to gestational diabetes mellitus: A prospective cohort study.

Public health issues from crude-oil production in the Ecuadorian Amazon territories.

Effects of Indoor Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals on Childhood Rhinitis.

Laboratory Studies

BPA/Phenols

Endocrine Disruptors Induced Distinct Expression of Thyroid and Estrogen Receptors in Rat versus Mouse Primary Cerebellar Cell Cultures. [BPA, arsenic, zearalenone]

Emergent contaminants in sediments and fishes from the Tamsui River (Taiwan): Their spatial-temporal distribution and risk to aquatic ecosystems and human health. [BPA, phthalates, PBDEs]

Bisphenols B, E, F, and S and 4-cumylphenol induce lipid accumulation in mouse adipocytes similarly to bisphenol A.

Low doses of BPA induced abnormal mitochondrial fission and hypertrophy in human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes via the calcineurin-DRP1 signaling pathway: A comparison between XX and XY cardiomyocytes.

Evaluation of the splenic injury following exposure of mice to bisphenol S: A mass spectrometry-based lipidomics and imaging analysis.

Assessment of the Effects of Bisphenol A on Dopamine Synthesis and Blood Vessels in the Goldfish Brain.

Phthalates

Environmental Chemical Diethylhexyl Phthalate Alters Intestinal Microbiota Community Structure and Metabolite Profile in Mice.

Dibutyl phthalate exposure during gestation and lactation in C57BL/6 mice: Maternal behavior and neurodevelopment in pups.

Triclosan/Antimicrobials

The toxic effect of triclosan and methyl-triclosan on biological pathways revealed by metabolomics and gene expression in zebrafish embryos.

Perinatal Triclosan exposure in the rat induces long-term disturbances in metabolism and gut microbiota in adulthood and old age.

Triclosan alters adult zebrafish behavior and targets acetylcholinesterase activity and expression.

Effects of triclosan on antioxidant- and apoptosis-related genes expression in the gill and ovary of zebrafish.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

Skeletal toxicity resulting from exposure of growing male rats to coplanar PCB 126 is associated with disruption of calcium homeostasis and the GH-IGF-1 axis and direct effects on bone formation.

Ameliorative effects of dietary Chlorella vulgaris and β-glucan against diazinon-induced toxicity in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus).

An assessment of risks of dioxins for aryl hydrocarbon receptor-mediated effects in polar bear (Ursus maritimus) by in vitro and in silico approaches.

Perfluoroalkyl Substances

Investigations on the phytotoxicity of perfluorooctanoic acid in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Perfluorooctanoic Acid Exposure Assessment on Common Carp Liver through Image and Ultrastructural Investigation.

Flame Retardants

Hepatic Transcriptomic Patterns in the Neonatal Rat After Pentabromodiphenyl Ether Exposure.

Rat liver epigenome programing by perinatal exposure to 2,2′,4’4′-tetrabromodiphenyl ether.

Assessment of the effects of early life exposure to triphenyl phosphate on fear, boldness, aggression, and activity in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) chicks.

Organotins

Relevant dose of the environmental contaminant, tributyltin, promotes histomorphological changes in the thyroid gland of male rats.

Pesticides

Interference of an atrazine commercial formulation with the endocrine control of ovarian growth exerted by the eyestalks.

Thiacloprid exposure perturbs the gut microbiota and reduces the survival status in honeybees.

Toxic Effects of Paclobutrazol on Developing Organs at Different Exposure Times in Zebrafish.

Thyroid-disrupting effects of chlorpyrifos in female Wistar rats.

The effects of glyphosate and AMPA on the mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and its microbiota.

Acute Exposure to Permethrin Modulates Behavioral Functions, Redox, and Bioenergetics Parameters and Induces DNA Damage and Cell Death in Larval Zebrafish.

Ameliorative effects of Lactobacillus plantarum L-137 on Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) exposed to deltamethrin toxicity in rearing water.

Histopatology and HSP70 analysis of the midgut of Rhinocricus padbergi (Diplopoda) in the evaluation of the toxicity of two new metallic-insecticides.

Toxicity characterization and environmental risk assessment of Mancozeb on the South American common toad Rhinella arenarum.

The effect of warming on pesticide toxicity is reversed between developmental stages in the mosquito Culex pipiens.

Assessment of the endocrine-disrupting effects of diethyl phosphate, a nonspecific metabolite of organophosphorus pesticides, by in vivo and in silico approaches.

Prenatal exposure to the pesticide metam sodium induces sensorimotor and neurobehavioral abnormalities in mice offspring.

Imidacloprid-induced liver fibrosis in quails via activation of the TGF-β1/Smad pathway.

Comprehensive fitness evaluation of common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) after twelve weeks of atrazine exposure.

Ecological risk of pesticide contamination in a Brazilian river located near a rural area: A study of biomarkers using zebrafish embryos.

Potentially Toxic Elements

Sodium nitroprusside (SNP) improves tolerance to arsenic (As) toxicity in Vicia faba through the modifications of biochemical attributes, antioxidants, ascorbate-glutathione cycle and glyoxalase cycle.

Chlorogenic acid prevents hepatotoxicity in arsenic-treated mice: role of oxidative stress and apoptosis.

Effects of chronic cadmium exposure at food limitation-relevant levels on energy metabolism in mice.

Effect of cadmium on essential metals and their impact on lipid metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Impact of cadmium toxicity on cartilage loss in a 3D in vitro model.

Ziziphus spina-christi Leaf Extract Suppressed Mercury Chloride-Induced Nephrotoxicity via Nrf2-Antioxidant Pathway Activation and Inhibition of Inflammatory and Apoptotic Signaling.

Epigenetic regulations in alternative telomere lengthening: Understanding the mechanistic insight in arsenic-induced skin cancer patients.

Effects of heavy metal mixture exposure on hematological and biomedical parameters mediated by oxidative stress.

Microplastics

Toxicity of microplastics and natural particles in the freshwater dipteran Chironomus riparius: Same same but different?

Air Pollution

Effects of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) on ovarian function and embryo quality in mice.

Pharmaceuticals

Ibuprofen and diclofenac impair the cardiovascular development of zebrafish (Danio rerio) at low concentrations.

Development and evaluation of a harmonized whole body physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model for flutamide in rats and its extrapolation to humans.

A quantitative structure-activity relationships approach to predict the toxicity of narcotic compounds to aquatic communities.

Mixtures

Activation of integrated stress response and disordered iron homeostasis upon combined exposure to cadmium and PCB77.

Corticosterone mediates telomere length in raptor chicks exposed to chemical mixture. [metals and pesticides]

Miscellaneous

Persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic properties of liquid crystal monomers and their detection in indoor residential dust.

Early Life Stage Bioactivity Assessment of Short-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins (SCCPs) at Environmentally Relevant Concentrations by Concentration-Dependent Transcriptomic Analysis of Zebrafish Embryos.

Exposure/Environment Studies

BPA/Phenols

Human exposure of bisphenol A and its analogues: understandings from human urinary excretion data and wastewater-based epidemiology.

Bisphenol-A in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort in Spain: Levels at recruitment and associated dietary factors.

Phthalates

Urinary levels of phthalates and DINCH metabolites in Korean and Thai pregnant women across three trimesters.

Phthalates levels in cold-pressed oils marketed in Turkey.

Occurrence of organic plastic additives in surface waters of the Rhône River (France). [phthaltes, bisphenols, organophosphates]

Assessment of water contamination and health risk of endocrine disrupting chemicals in outdoor and indoor swimming pools. [4 phenols, 6 estrogens, 4 progestogens, 5 androgens, and 1 pharmaceutical]

Parabens

Serum analysis in women and in vitro skin assay for the assessment of exposure to parabens in antiperspirants.

Persistent Organic Pollutants: PCBs, Dioxin, OCPs

Changes of organochlorine compound concentrations in maternal serum during pregnancy and comparison to serum cord blood composition.

Spatial distribution and sources of pesticidal persistent organic pollutants in the Hooghly riverine sediment.

Human Health Benefits from Fish Consumption vs. Risks from Inhalation Exposures Associated with Contaminated Sediment Remediation: Dredging of the Hudson River.

Polycyclic aromatic compounds in urban soils of Stockholm City: Occurrence, sources and human health risk assessment.

Determination of polychlorinated biphenyls in honeybee, pollen, and honey samples from urban and semi-urban areas in Turkey.

Legacy and emerging persistent organic pollutants in the freshwater system: Relative distribution, contamination trends, and bioaccumulation.

Perfluoroalkyl Substances

High trans-placental transfer of perfluoroalkyl substances alternatives in the matched maternal-cord blood serum: Evidence from a birth cohort study.

Longitudinal trends in perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances among multiethnic midlife women from 1999 to 2011: The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation.

Distribution characteristics of trifluoroacetic acid in the environments surrounding fluorochemical production plants in Jinan, China.

Food Safety Concerns: Crop Breeding as a Potential Strategy to Address Issues Associated with the Recently Lowered Reference Doses for Perfluorooctanoic Acid and Perfluorooctane sulfonate.

Perfluorinated compounds in the aquatic food chains of two subtropical estuaries.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and the contribution of unknown precursors and short-chain (C2-C3) perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids at solid waste disposal facilities.

Flame Retardants

Determination of 18 organophosphorus flame retardants/plasticizers in mussel samples by matrix solid-phase dispersion combined to liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

Dietary intake of legacy and emerging halogenated flame retardants using food market basket estimations in Nanjing, eastern China.

Organophosphate esters in human serum in Bohai Bay, North China.

Transfer of POP-BFRs within e-waste plastics in recycling streams in China.

The bioaccumulation, elimination, and trophic transfer of BDE-47 in the aquatic food chain of Chlorella pyrenoidosa-Daphnia magna.

Characteristics and risk assessment of organophosphorus flame retardants in urban road dust of Dalian, Northeast China.

Landfills represent significant atmospheric sources of exposure to halogenated flame retardants for urban-adapted gulls.

Pesticides

Organophosphate metabolite concentrations in maternal urine during pregnancy.

Herbicide biomonitoring in agricultural workers in Valle del Mayo, Sonora Mexico.

Soil microbial communities in diverse agroecosystems exposed to the herbicide glyphosate.

Biomarkers of occupational exposure to pesticides: Systematic review of insecticides.

Estimated exposure to glyphosate in humans via environmental, occupational, and dietary pathways: an updated review of the scientific literature.

Pesticides in cannabis: A review of analytical and toxicological considerations.

Potentially Toxic Elements

Mercury Exposure, Fish Consumption, and Perceived Risk among Pregnant Women in Coastal Florida.

Blood lead levels among Chinese children: The shifting influence of industry, traffic, and e-waste over three decades.

Investigating the contaminant transport of heavy metals in estuarine waters. [review]

Heavy metal contamination in urban surface sediments: sources, distribution, contamination control, and remediation. [review]

Methylmercury exposure in wildlife: A review of the ecological and physiological processes affecting contaminant concentrations and their interpretation.

Smart Nanotherapeutic Agent for in vitro and in vivo Reversal of Heavy Metal Induced Causality: Key Information from Optical Spectroscopy. [re chelation]

Trace metals in core sediments from a deep lake in eastern Turkey: Vertical concentration profiles, eco-environmental risks and possible sources.

The effects of climate change and groundwater exploitation on the spatial and temporal variations of heavy metal content in maize in the Luan River catchment of China.

The contents and release behavior of heavy metals in construction and demolition waste used in freeway construction.

Neuropathological changes in wild muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus) and red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) breeding in arsenic endemic areas of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (Canada): Arsenic and cadmium accumulation in the brain and biomarkers of oxidative stress.

Mercury concentrations in fish and invertebrates of the Finger Lakes in central New York, USA.

Analyzing of usability of tree-rings as biomonitors for monitoring heavy metal accumulation in the atmosphere in urban area: a case study of cedar tree (Cedrus sp.).

Mercury accumulation in soil from atmospheric deposition in temperate steppe of Inner Mongolia, China.

Mercury bioaccumulation in Tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) from offshore waters of South Carolina, USA.

Mercury exposure in sedentary and migratory Charadrius plovers distributed widely across China.

Examining maternal and environmental transfer of mercury into American alligator eggs.

Deforestation Due to Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Exacerbates Soil and Mercury Mobilization in Madre de Dios, Peru.

Mercury dynamics in macroinvertebrates in relation to environmental factors in a highly impacted tropical estuary: Buenaventura Bay, Colombian Pacific.

Identification of dissolved metal contamination of major rivers in the southeastern hilly area, China: distribution, source apportionment, and health risk assessment.

Assessment of lead and cadmium in fifty-four Indian herbal medicine: tribal and marketed varieties.

Biomonitoring by epiphytic lichen species-Pyxine cocoes (Sw.) Nyl.: understanding characteristics of trace metal in ambient air of different landuses in mid-Brahmaputra Valley.

Elemental content of brown crab (Cancer pagurus) – Is it safe for human consumption? A recent case study from Mausund, Norway.

Assessment of bioaccumulation of cu and Pb in experimentally exposed spiders, Lycosa terrestris and Pardosa birmanica, using different exposure routes.

Heavy metal speciation with prediction model for heavy metal mobility and risk assessment in mine-affected soils.

Characterization of heavy metal pollution in an anthropogenically and geologically influenced semi-arid region of east India and assessment of ecological and human health risks.

Elements in surface and well water from the central North China Plain: Enrichment patterns, origins, and health risk assessment.

Characterizing pollution indices and children health risk assessment of potentially toxic metal(oid)s in school dust of Lahore, Pakistan.

Human health risks by potentially toxic metals in drinking water along the Hattar Industrial Estate, Pakistan.

Risk Assessment and Implications of Schoolchildren Exposure to Classroom Heavy Metals Particles in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Biomonitoring of 45 inorganic elements measured in plasma from Spanish subjects: A cross-sectional study in Andalusian population.

Microplastics

Microplastics in wild fish from North East Atlantic Ocean and its potential for causing neurotoxic effects, lipid oxidative damage, and human health risks associated with ingestion exposure.

Commentary on: Abundance and distribution of microplastics within surface sediments of a key shellfish growing region of Canada.

Self-contamination from clothing in microplastics research.

The first occurrence, spatial distribution and characteristics of microplastic particles in sediments from Banten Bay, Indonesia.

Identification of microplastics in the sediments of southern coasts of the Caspian Sea, north of Iran.

Microplastic pollution in water and sediment in a textile industrial area.

Spatial-temporal distribution of microplastics in surface water and sediments of Maozhou River within Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Airborne fiber particles: Types, size and concentration observed in Beijing.

How climate change and eutrophication interact with microplastic pollution and sediment resuspension in shallow lakes: A review.

Air Pollution

Distributional Environmental Injustices for a Minority Group without Minority Status: Arab Americans and Residential Exposure to Carcinogenic Air Pollution in the US.

Estimation of human exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) based on the dietary and outdoor atmospheric monitoring in the Czech Republic.

Health risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) adsorbed in PM2.5 and PM10 in a region of Arequipa, Peru.

Pharmaceuticals

Occurrence of antibiotics residues in hospital wastewater, wastewater treatment plant, and in surface water in Nairobi County, Kenya.

Pharmaceuticals and trace metals in the surface water used for crop irrigation: Risk to health or natural attenuation?

Aquatic macroinvertebrates under stress: Bioaccumulation of emerging contaminants and metabolomics implications. [pharmaceuticals and other EDCs]

Occurrence of anticancer drugs in the aquatic environment: a systematic review.

Impact of alternative materials to plasticized PVC infusion tubings on drug sorption and plasticizer release.

Mixtures

Massive pollutants released to Galveston Bay during Hurricane Harvey: Understanding their retention and pathway using Lagrangian numerical simulations.

Miscellaneous

Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether Exposure from Gasoline in the U.S. Population, NHANES 2001-2012.

Workplace Emissions and Exposures During Semiconductor Nanowire Production, Post-production, and Maintenance Work.

Risk associated with increasing bromide in drinking water sources in Yancheng City, China.

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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.

EHN EHN

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.

EHN EHN

“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."

EHN EHN

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.