Numerous organizations work on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Here is a selection of these organizations and the resources they provide, organized alphabetically.
Medical and Scientific Societies
Non-Profits and Other Resources
For information on governmental organizations, see the Policy Background page.
Medical and Scientific Societies
Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments
Promoting healthy people and healthy environments.
American Academy of Pediatrics
Dedicated to the health of all children. See their work on pediatric environmental health.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
See their Committee Opinion, Reducing Prenatal Exposure to Toxic Environmental Agents, 2021.
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
Children’s Environmental Health Center
A research program of Mount Sinai.
Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
Housed at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, provides resources and educational materials.
Developmental Neurotoxicology Society
Promotes research on the developmental origins of nervous system disorders.
The Endocrine Society
The Endocrine Society is the de facto home for EDC research. It works to improve funding and regulations of EDCs. It also has information on EDCs on its website, including Let’s Talk EDCs: Resources for Clinicians and Patients. The annual meeting has sessions on EDCs. They published a Second Scientific Statement on Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (2015), and have a Special Interest Group on EDCs.
International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)
Promotes research into the fetal and developmental origins of disease in relation to a variety of environmental factors, including EDCs. It supports trainees and early career investigators in their scientific and professional development. There are local affiliate DOHaD societies as well, such as the U.S. DOHaD Society.
International Society of Exposure Science
To better our world, its ecosystems, and inhabitants, by creating an international community that advances and integrates exposure science into research and action.
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
A scientific association in environmental epidemiology that impacts research, training and policy worldwide.
Intersectoral Centre for Endocrine Disruptor Analysis (ICEDA)
A research network of scientists to identify, recognize, quantify and manage endocrine disruptors. ICEDA also promotes intersectoral collaborations and encourages the sharing and exchange of data and methodologies.
Key Characteristics
A collaborative approach to identify the key characteristics of hazardous chemicals, including endocrine disruptors.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) Environmental Health Matters Initiative (EHMI)
EHMI engages experts from across sectors and disciplines in exploring the complexity of environmental health challenges and the actions needed to address them.
Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU)
An system of specialists throughout North America who respond to questions from public health professionals, clinicians, policy makers, and the public about the impacts of environmental factors on the health of children and reproductive-age adults. Their website contains numerous educational resources on EDCs.
Project TENDR
Project TENDR stands for “Targeting Environmental Neuro-Development Risks.” It is a unique collaboration of leading scientists, health professionals and children’s health advocates who came together over concern over the evidence linking toxic environmental chemicals to neurodevelopmental disorders. It has published a consensus statement endorsed by numerous scientific organizations.
Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE)
PRHE is based at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), and its mission is to create a healthier environment for human reproduction and development through advancing scientific inquiry, clinical care and health policies that prevent exposures to harmful chemicals in the environment. PHRE works at the intersection of science, medicine, policy and community. It conducts targeted research and translates scientific findings in order to expand clinical practice and advance science-based policy solutions. It has created many brochures that focus on a variety of health and environmental issues.
Society of Toxicology (SOT)
A professional and scholarly organization of scientists from academic institutions, government, and industry. The Society’s mission is to create a safer and healthier world by advancing the science and increasing the impact of toxicology. The annual meetings have sessions on EDCs.
Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR)
The SSR focuses on the science behind reproduction and fertility in animals and humans. Its annual meeting has sessions on EDCs and reproduction.
Non-Profits and Other Resources
Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP) Wiki
A website hosted by the hosted by the Society for the Advancement of Adverse Outcome Pathways (SAAOP) that serves as one component of a larger OECD-sponsored AOP Knowledgebase (AOP-KB) effort. The AOP-KB represents the central repository for all AOPs developed as part of the OECD AOP Development Effort by the Extended Advisory Group on Molecular Screening and Toxicogenomics.
Agents of Change in Environmental Justice
Agents of Change is an ongoing series featuring the stories, analyses, and perspectives of next generation environmental health leaders who come from historically under-represented backgrounds in science and academia. They sponsor an annual Fellowship program.
Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT)
ACAT is a statewide environmental health and justice organization that believes everyone has the right to clean air, water, and toxic-free food.
Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry
Beyond Benign
Green chemistry education.
Beyond Pesticides
Beyond Pesticides seeks to protect healthy air, water, land and food for ourselves and future generations.
Beyond Plastics
Working to end plastic pollution.
Birth Defect Research for Children
Shares information on the health effects of EDCs, and runs a National Birth Defect Registry.
Blood Exposome Database
A collection of chemical compounds and associated information that were automatically extracted by text mining the content of PubMed and PubChem databases.
Break the Cycle of Health Disparities, Inc
Addresses the social, economic and environmental determinants of health for children living under circumstances of social and economic disadvantage in communities of color disproportionately burdened by racial and environmental injustice.
Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
Unlike most breast cancer organizations, BCPP focuses on prevention and reducing risks relating to environmental chemicals.
Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
An effort to make beauty and personal care products safer for all.
Center for Biological Diversity
This Center focuses on threats to biodiversity in the U.S. and worldwide. It also works to reduce toxic contamination of our environment including EDCs, via its campaign on EDCs.
Center for Environmental Health (CEH)
CEH works to protect families and communities against toxic chemicals. One of their main campaigns is on endocrine disrupting chemicals.
Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
Founded by Lois Gibbs of Love Canal, CHEJ provides resources and networking for local and regional groups working on chemicals and more.
Chemicals Health Monitor
This is a European project to inform the European public about the dangers of environmental chemicals. It has lots of good information on EDCs, including where they come from and their link to disease.
ChemSec, the International Chemical Secretariat
Works to develop sustainable, non-toxic chemicals. Their SIN (Substitute it Now) List provides a list of 919 hazardous chemicals of high concern that should be banned or restricted, based on criteria established by the EU’s REACH regulation.
CHEMTrust
CHEM Trust is a UK registered charity that works to prevent man-made chemicals from causing long term damage to wildlife or humans. It is a good source of information on EDCs including an extensive FAQ sheet on EDCs.
Children’s Environmental Health Network
A U.S. national multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the developing child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthier environment. Sponsors the annual Children’s Environmental Health Day in October.
Clean and Healthy New York
Promotes safer chemicals, a sustainable economy, and a healthier world. Works for better environmental chemical regulations in New York State.
Clean Water Action
Clean Water Action works to win strong health and environmental protections, focusing on issues related to clean water, oil and gas drilling, climate change and clean energy, toxic chemicals, and waste from single use plastics.
Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE)
CHE hosts regular webinars on EDCs.
Coming Clean
A nonprofit environmental health collaborative working to transform the chemical industry so it is no longer a source of harm.
Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD)
CTD is a robust, publicly available database that aims to advance understanding about how environmental exposures affect human health. It provides manually curated information about chemical–gene/protein interactions, chemical–disease and gene–disease relationships. These data are integrated with functional and pathway data to aid in development of hypotheses about the mechanisms underlying environmentally influenced diseases.
Concerned Health Professionals of New York
Focus on the health effects of fracking.
DEDuCT: Database of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and their Toxicity Profiles
Researchers identified many hundreds of potential EDCs with supporting evidence in published literature.
DES Action
Diethylstilbestrol (DES) was the first synthetic estrogen to be created. DES was prescribed to millions of pregnant women in the mistaken belief that it could prevent miscarriage. It did not work, but instead, DES harmed the mothers, the children born of those pregnancies and possibly the grandchildren and beyond.
DES Info
DES Info was created by several DES Daughters as a way to proactively share information about DES.
Diabetes and the Environment
A website on the role of EDCs in type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. The site not only lists references but discusses the data, links to other related studies, and summarizes the current state of the science for individual chemicals.
EaRTH Center
The UCSF Environmental Research and Translation for Health (EaRTH) Center aims to accelerate both the pace of discovery and prevention of environmental exposures that affect reproduction and development to improve human health across the lifespan.
EASIS: Endocrine Active Substances Information System
A web accessible database that provides information on endocrine active properties of chemical substances. EASIS contains information on endocrine activity of chemicals as well as adverse effects that may be linked to an endocrine activity. A project of the European Commission.
Ecology Center of Ann Arbor
Coordinates Healthy Stuff, an effort to research toxic chemicals in everyday products.
ECOTOXicology Knowledgebase
The ECOTOXicology Knowledgebase (ECOTOX), hosted by EPA, is a comprehensive, publicly available Knowledgebase providing single chemical environmental toxicity data on aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife.
EDC Free Europe
EDC-Free Europe is a coalition of public interest groups representing more than 70 environmental, health, women’s and consumer groups across Europe who share a concern about EDCs and their impact on our health and wildlife. Its website contains a wealth of information about EDCs, including a video and media library.
The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX)
While TEDX has ceased operations, its website is still available, and contains a fracking database, a list of potential endocrine disruptors, a timeline of critical windows of development, recordings of webinars, as well as valuable information about hormones and endocrine disruption.
Endocrine Disruptome
An online computational tool for predicting endocrine action of substances.
Endocrine Disruptor Lists
This website makes public the current status of substances identified as endocrine disruptors, or under evaluation for endocrine disrupting properties within the EU.
Environmental Defense Fund’s Health Program
Includes work on toxic chemicals.
Environmental Health Matters Initiative
A project of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Environmental Health News (EHN)
EHN produces the daily newsletter, Above the Fold, as well as additional weekly new summaries. It covers a wide variety of environmental topics, focusing on environmental justice, toxic chemicals, climate change, clean water, clean energy, and safe food.
Environmental Health Sciences
The umbrella organization for Environmental Health News, HEEDS, and more.
Environmental Protection Network
Launched in January 2017 to harness the expertise of former EPA career staff and confirmation-level appointees from multiple administrations to provide an informed and rigorous defense against efforts to undermine the protection of public health and the environment.
Environmental Working Group (EWG)
EWG is educating and empowering consumers to make safer and more informed decisions about the products they buy and the companies they support. EWG offers popular, easy-to-use guides to help you choose products and foods that are free of toxic ingredients, safe for your children and environmentally friendly.
Food Packaging Forum
The Food Packaging Forum communicates high-quality scientific information, is balanced and independent, and enables consumer self-determination by providing the facts on aspects pertaining to food packaging and health, with a focus on chemical composition of food contact materials, migration and chronic exposure to mixtures of food contact substances at low levels. It provides an online database of food contact chemicals that can migrate from food packaging into food.
Greenpeace’s Toxics Campaign
Longstanding work for a toxic-free world.
Green Science Policy Institute
Facilitates the responsible use of chemicals to protect human and ecological health. See their PFAS Central website for information about those chemicals.
GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals
Certifies products by screening them for hazards.
Habitable
Formerly the Healthy Building Network, Habitable works to reduce toxic chemicals and promote the development of affordable green chemistry solutions that support a health circular economy. It promotes health building practices via reducing exposure to hazardous chemicals.
Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)
HEAL is a European non-profit organization that addresses how the environment affects health in the European Union. It helps shape laws on chemicals, air quality, climate change, and energy with the goal of reducing disease.
Health Care Without Harm
Health Care Without Harm works to transform health care worldwide to reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability, and a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice.
Industry Documents Library
Hosted by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) brings together materials created by the tobacco, drug, food, and chemical industries.
Institute for Green Science
At Carnegie Mellon University.
International Panel on Chemical Pollution
The International Panel on Chemical Pollution (IPCP) was established in 2008 due to an increasing awareness of the chemical cocktail humans and the environment are exposed to, and due to the identification of a critical gap in the communication between science, policy and the public.
International Persistent Organic Pollutant Elimination Network (IPEN)
IPEN brings together leading public interest groups working on environmental and public health issues in over 100 countries to take action internationally to minimize and, whenever possible, eliminate hazardous, toxic chemicals. The Introduction to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs), by IPEN and the Endocrine Society, is a useful resource.
Made Safe
MADE SAFE® is America’s first nontoxic seal for consumer products we use every day, from baby to personal care to household and beyond.
My Green Lab
Resources on greening scientific laboratories.
National Black Environmental Justice Network
The NBEJN is dedicated to improving the lives of Black people and addressing the systemic racism that harms and denies Black People equal access to environmental, climate, racial and economic justice, health equity, political power, civil rights and human rights.
National PFAS Contamination Coalition
A coalition of community groups fighting drinking water contamination.
National Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
NRDC works to protect the air, land, and water from pollution to improve the health of people across the globe. It works in areas of climate change, energy, food, oceans, toxic chemicals, and water health.
Non Toxic Communities
Supports citizens to advocate for public health measures in their communities.
Non Toxic Neighborhoods
Supports community efforts to reduce children’s exposure to pesticides.
PEPPER: Public-private platform for the pre-validation of methods for the characterization of endocrine disruptors
A European project to validate methods to identify EDCs.
Pesticide Action and Agroecology Network (PAN)
PAN works to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.
PFAS Exchange
Resources on per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) provided by the Silent Spring Institute.
PFAS Project
News and resources on PFAS.
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Works on a variety of issues related to health, including toxic chemicals and climate change.
Plastic Pollution Coalition (PPC)
PPC is a growing global alliance of more than 700 organizations, businesses, and thought leaders in 60 countries working toward a world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impact on humans, animals, waterways, and oceans, and the environment. See their Healthy Pregnancy Guide.
PROTECTED
An EU project for protection against endocrine disruptors.
Rachel Talks Tox Blog
By Rachel Shaffer on the intersection of science and policy in environmental public health.
Research Support Consortium
Resources for scientists under attack by industry.
Safer Made
Invests in technologies that address safer chemistry needs.
Safer States
A network of organizations tracking state-level U.S. regulations on chemicals.
SafetyNEST
Resources for pregnant women and new mothers for a healthy and toxic-free baby.
Science Action Network for Health and the Environment
The UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) has launched the Science Action Network, to help scientists and clinicians become more involved in chemical policy and decision making. We highly recommend joining!
Science Communication Network (SCN)
SCN is dedicated to supporting environmental health scientists in their efforts to work with the media. It provides media training specific to environmental health research and reaches out to science, health and other journalists to inform them of important science.
Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN)
Since 1998, SEHN has been the leading proponent in the United States of the Precautionary Principle as a new basis for environmental and public health policy.
SciLine
SciLine connects journalists with scientists and is sponsored by the AAAS. Scientists can sign up to be a resource for journalists when needed.
SHARP Training: Skills for Health And Research Professionals
The SHARP (Skills for Health And Research Professionals) Training Program at Columbia University offers short, intensive boot camps and workshops led by experts to teach in-demand skills on various topics in research and education. Programs are offered in New York City and in Portland, Oregon. Many topics relate to EDCs.
Sierra Club’s Toxics Program
Works to address chemical pollution.
The Smart Human
Provides environmental health and prevention information to the public.
Theo Colborn
A history project on Theo and EDCs.
ToxicDocs
Sponsored by Columbia University and the City University of New York, this online collection brings together millions of pages of previously classified documents on industrial poisons, free for the public.
Toxic-Free Food Packaging
A website for policymakers, advocates, and consumers to understand how chemicals in food contact materials can put our health and the environment at risk.
Toxic-Free Future
As a national leader in environmental health research and advocacy, Toxic-Free Future uses the power of science, education, and activism, to drive strong laws and corporate responsibility that protect the health of all people and the planet. Their Mind the Store campaign works with retailers to phase out hazardous chemicals and educate the public about ways to protect our families from toxic chemicals.
The Toxic Exposome Database (T3DB)
This is a unique bioinformatics source that combines toxin data with target information thus providing mechanisms of toxicity and target proteins for each toxin.
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
UCS works on a variety of issues related to EDCs.
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Empowers and organizes low-income and people of color to build healthy communities for all.
Women’s Voices for the Earth
Aims to amplify women’s voices to eliminate toxic chemicals.
Working Women at Risk
This online tool is intended to help researchers and advocates to visualize the exposures to chemicals that might be putting California’s working women at risk for breast cancer.