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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11366
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) endocrine disruptors

Identification criteria still not in sight

Brussels, 24/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - The EU needs to establish identification criteria for endocrine disruptors according to 27,000 people who responded to the public consultation held by the European Commission on this subject, whose results were published on Friday 24 July.

The results indicate, however, that there are differing viewpoints when it comes to how identification is done and how these chemical substances should be regulated. At low doses, they can disrupt hormone balance in...