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CREDO European Union website on Endocrine Disruption in Europe
Summary of info on the Endocrine Disruption Problem
A Special Report on Environmental Endocrine Disruption: An Effects Assessment and Analysis was prepared under the auspices of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Assessment Forum, which brings together scientists from around the Agency to promote scientific consensus on risk assessment issues. The report can be found at
USEPA Endocrine Disruption Programme More Info from USEPA Background info on Endocrine Disruption (on USEPA site)Recent Important Publications relevant to aspects of Endocrine Disruption
Statement about Endocrine Disruption ERICE 1995
UK Research on Endocrine Disruption in the Marine Environment : EDMAR which includes some done in the University of Liverpool
Photo of Intersex Flounder Gonad -- Please click
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This book by Theo Colborn was very influential and was hailed by many as the equivalent to Rachel Carsons' Book 'Silent Spring' although many of its conclusions were very controversial. There is a website maintained with info relevant to the topic of ED: Our Stolen Future
Not everything that was in the book was totally accurate and various authors object violently to the case put forwards eg Junk Science
"Acceptance Speech", Dr. Theo Colborn, delivered June 19, 1997, upon receipt of the Rachel Carson Leadership Award from Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The establishment of the Rachel Carson-Theo Colborn Scholarship was also announced at the event. The annual scholarship will support field ecolgical research by a promising woman scientist. State of the World Forum Speech, Dr. Theo Colborn, October 3, 1996, San Francisco CA. State of the World Forum Dr. Theo Colborn, November 6, 1997, San Francisco CAe.hormone at Tulane Univ, USA
Greenpeace Publications: EndoDirupt & PVC
'The book' on Endocrine Disruption in Fish is Kime (1998) (although unfortunately it is not in Liverpool Univ Library). A short description is in Chapter 8 of Principles of Ecotoxicology by Walker et al., 2000 of which there are a numberof copies in the Harold Cohen
Kime, D. E. (1998). Endocrine Disruption in Fish, Kluwer, Boston.
Walker, C. H., S. P. Hopkin, et al. (2000). Principles of ecotoxicology. Taylor & Francis, London ; New York.