Timeline: History of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals – Page 2

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2025: BPA Banned in EU

2025 The European Union bans BPA from food contact materials We could ask what took so long? Meanwhile, in the U.S., President Trump begins to dismantle the EPA, FDA, NIH, and other federal government agencies. We will see where this leads.

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Webinar: Changes at NIH: What do they mean for environmental health?
by Sarah Howard on April 3, 2025 at 3:34 pm
This May 8 webinar features Dr. Linda Birnbaum, who will discuss the implications of the Trump administration's changes for environmental health, and the effects on individual research efforts. Sponsored by the EDC Strategies Partnership.
Webinar: Childhood cancer and the environment: prevention opportunities
by Sarah Howard on March 11, 2025 at 3:35 pm
This April 24 webinar features Drs. Mark Miller and Catherine Metayer, and is sponsored by CHE Alaska.
EDCs at the European endocrinology society meeting
by Sarah Howard on March 2, 2025 at 9:03 pm
The May 10-13, 2025 Joint Congress of the European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and the European Society of Endocrinology in Copenhagen features a number of sessions on endocrine disrupting chemicals:

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Editorial: Public health protections unravel as U.S. science agencies face political cuts
by EHN Curators on May 2, 2025 at 2:17 pm
The editors in chief of several prominent European toxicology journals write that recent layoffs and restrictions at top U.S. health and environmental agencies are undermining public safety, slowing innovation, and damaging global trust. The editorial was published jointly in Regulatory Toxicology & Pharmacology, Current Opinion in Toxicology, Chemico Biological Interactions, Computational Toxicology, ALTEX – Alternatives to Animal Experimentation, Reproductive Toxicology, Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, Toxicology in Vitro, Toxicology Letters, Toxicology, NAM Journal and Food and Chemical Toxicology.
Research links plastics chemicals to hundreds of thousands of heart disease deaths, but further study is needed
by EHN Curators on May 2, 2025 at 11:00 am
New research estimates that phthalates, common chemicals in plastics, contributed to 350,000 cardiovascular deaths worldwide in 2018, though experts caution the findings require further study. Nina Agrawal reports for The New York Times.
Environmental health journal pauses new submissions amid NIH budget cuts
by EHN Curators on May 1, 2025 at 10:55 am
The journal Environmental Health Perspectives will stop accepting new scientific submissions due to budget cuts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that threaten the journal’s operations. Teddy Rosenbluth and Apoorva Mandavilli report for The New York Times.

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International scientists: Reductions to U.S. federal workforce will send public health and safety “back to the stone age”
by Katherine McMahon,Sarah Howard on May 2, 2025 at 8:21 pm
A coalition of European Editors-in-Chief to a wide array of toxicology journals published an editorial highlighting the extensive consequences of the Trump administration’s layoffs within U.S. regulatory agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In short:
New EPA policy reduces pesticide restrictions despite environmental concerns
by EHN Curators on May 2, 2025 at 11:05 am
Farm groups praised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week for easing restrictions on insecticide use, a move that critics say could harm endangered species and public health. Carey Gillam reports for The New Lede.
Florida lawmakers move to end water fluoridation statewide
by EHN Curators on May 1, 2025 at 10:51 am
Florida lawmakers passed a bill that would ban fluoride in public drinking water, setting the stage for the state to become the second in the U.S. to prohibit the widely used dental health additive. Mirna Alsharif reports for NBC News.