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Article: Disrupting a delicate balance: environmental effects on the thyroid.(Focus)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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Public and scientific unease about possible disruption of hormones by man-made substances in the environment has gathered steam steadily over the last decade, propelled significantly by two events of 1996: the publication of Our Stolen Future, by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers, and the passage by Congress of the Food Quality Protection Act and amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act, directing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine whether and to what extent industrial chemicals disrupt reproductive and thyroid hormones.
In response to its congressional mandate, the EPA formed the Endocrine Disruptor Screening and ...