The European Commission would like to avoid any further objections from the European Parliament over criteria for endocrine disruptors and in Parliament’s environment committee on 11 October, the Commission made it clear, as a way of putting pressure, that its decision on pesticides and the future general strategy would depend on how Parliament behaved over the biocides question.
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interfere with the hormonal system and can cause negative side effects...