Here is a collection of news stories about Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC's) that I (Nora Egan Demers) have collected for teaching classes at Florida Gulf Coast University.

(NOTE: news stories are written for the general public and don’t usually provide the scientific information you will find on the scientific paper page). Consider news stories a “gateway” to scientific inquiry.

• Findings show endocrine-Disrupting Glyphosate Weed Killer Threatens Women’s Reproductive Health (Beyond Pesticides Apr 17, 2025)
• EU to ban dozens of toxic substances in children’s toys (Euractiv, Apr 11, 2025)
• Unsafe sleeping? Mattresses may expose children to toxins as they sleep, studies find (the New Lede Apr 15, 2025)
• Exposure to phthalates during pregnancy can affect a newborn’s brain development, study finds (CNN Apr 2, 2025)
• Before the Baby’s Born: What Junk Food Is Doing to the Next Generation of Black Families (Black Women health Mar 30, 3035)
• The challenge of determining the health risks of low-dose chemical exposures (Open Access Apply
• https://www.thenewlede.Government March 25, 2025)
• Glyphosate poses widespread risks to female fertility and reproductive health: new research (US Right to Know March 15, 2025)
• Foods we eat are covered in plastics that may be causing a rise in premature births, study says (CNN Feb 6, 2025)
• Are air fresheners toxic? Toxicologists warns it's a home fragrance item to get rid of right now – plus, safer alternatives to try (Home and Gardens, March 1, 2025)
• Common Plastic Ingredient May Cause DNA Damage, Harvard Study Finds (Havard Crimsom Nov 7, 2024)
• Banned toxic chemicals discovered in hundreds of cosmetic products (MSN Oct 2024)
• A toxic relationship: ultra-processed foods & plastics (commentary Globalization and health Oct 24, 2024)
• Lawsuit Settlement Tackles EPA’s Dramatic Failure to Regulate Endocrine Disruptors, Despite Fed Mandate (Beyond Pesticides, Oct 29, 2024)
• Two major studies reveal devastating effect of PFAS and food additives on male and female sexual health: From sperm damage to smaller testicles, early menopause and ovary cysts (Daily Mail Oct 22, 2023) it has some really good visuals.
• Frightening effects consuming just one can of soup has on your body (daily Mail Oct 24, 2024)
• California’s ban on toxic IV bags marks a shift for health care plastics (Trellis Oct 4, 2024)
• California bans toxic chemicals in IV bags as healthcare shifts away from harmful plastics (EHN Oct 11, 2024)
• Black Plastic Items Can Have Cancer-Causing BFRs, New Study Warns (Forbes, Oct 5, 2024)
• Phthalate Exposure During Second and Third Trimester of Pregnancy May Impact Fetal Growth and Development: Study (Medical Dialogues, Oct 4, 2024)
• Body organs where microplastics accumulate and what they can do to health (Times of India, Oct 2024)
• Junk food can lead to fertility issues in women, says expert (Times of India, Sept 30, 2024)
• Probiotics may help pregnant women fight the effects of endocrine disruptors (EHN Sept 27, 2024)
• Bottled water has a huge and growing toll on human and planetary health, experts warn (Physics Org, Sept 24, 2024)
• Commentary: Rethinking bottled water in public health discourse (BMJ Global Health, 2024)
• Certain chemicals may trigger early puberty in girls (NIH Sept 24, 2024)
• Exposure to microplastics may contribute to liver disease and other metabolic disorders (EHN Sept 20, 2024)
• Nearly 200 compounds linked to breast cancer found in food packaging, tableware: Study (EHN Sept 24, 2024)
• Non-food items in your home could be keeping you fat, doctor says (MSN, Sept 2024)
• EU impacts of cosmetics regulations: Key mid-year regulatory updates (Enhesa, Sept 18, 2024)
• Exposure to microplastics may contribute to liver disease and other metabolic disorders (EHN Sept 20, 2024)
• Scientists Just Discovered How Many Chemicals In Food Packaging Can Leach Into Humans (Women’s Health, Sept 27, 2024)
• New study shows the hidden health risks of food packaging chemicals (EHN, Sept 17, 2024)
• Burgers and fries with a side of PFAS (EHN Sept 22, 2023)
• Kids using lotions have higher levels of hormone-disrupting toxins – study (Guardian Sept 14, 2024)
• Artificial turf displays endocrine disrupting properties, new study confirms (EHN Sept 10, 2024)
• The Alarming Impact of Plastic Pollution on All Planetary Boundaries (The University Network (TUN), Nov 12, 2024)
• Washington state eliminates harmful chemicals from thermal receipts (Washington State Department of Commerce, Nov 12, 2024)

I’ve been hoping for years that there would be some leadership to eliminate harmful chemicals from receipt paper. I cringe everytime I see a young women handling receipts at retail outlets. Hopefully this solution will be implemented in other states soon.

• Scientists Just Discovered How Many Chemicals In Food Packaging Can Leach Into Humans “Exposure to these materials can cause issues for human health.” (Women’s Health Sept 18, 2024)
• New Study Finds ‘Forever Chemicals’ From Food Packaging in Humans. How Concerned Should We Be? (Well and Good Sept 18, 2024)
• The story of plastic (2021 Animated Short 4:05)
• Plastic People The hidden crisis of microplastics (film). Take Action Page
• Residents say Pennsylvania has failed communities after state studies linked fracking to child cancer (EHN, Sept 19, 2024)
• See reports and related information at Oil and Natural Gas Production Health (ONGP) Concerns (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)
• EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against. (ProPublica, Sept. 18, 2024) (policy aspect of EDC issue)
• Hair and skin care products expose kids to hormone disrupting chemicals, study finds (NPR Sept 9 2024)
• Exposure to ‘forever chemicals’ during early pregnancy may be linked to future obesity, heart issues: Study (The Hill Sept 9, 2024)
• Chemical Free Living 8 Things to Know About Toxic Fragrances
• Common chemical affects gut microbiome and contributes to diabetes and obesity (EHN Aug 30, 2014)

The good news is restoring your microbiota may help reduce the impact. See the scientific manuscript here:

• Effects of Early Life Exposures to the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligand TCDF on Gut Microbiota and Host Metabolic Homeostasis in C57BL/6J Mice (Environ Health Perspect. 2024 Aug; 132(8): 087005). Published online 2024 Aug 14. doi: 10.1289/EHP13356
• Phthalate chemicals found in popular coconut oils
• New testing finds traces of the toxics in all seven coconut oils tested. (EHN June 13, 2024)
• Common insecticide may be toxic to mammals’ ovaries (EHS May 31, 2024)

(Neonicotinoids have become the most popular class of pesticides in the world, largely because they are considered insect selective)

• Scientists Discover Microplastics Abound in Human Testicles (US News and World Report May 22, 2024)
• How fungi could help clean up or biggest toxic messes (EHN May 13, 2024)
• Pesticide Data Program Annual Summary Calendar Year 2022 (USDA)
• Is your favourite activewear making you sick? We’ve taken the sleuthing out of TikTok to find out what’s what about toxic gym clothes (Cosmopolitan, Apr 11, 2024)
• Mapping disruption (U of Redlands, Apr 9, 2024)
• As Many Black Women in U.S. Abandon Hair Relaxers Linked to Cancer, Sales Climb in African Countries. The companies at the center of thousands of U.S. lawsuits produce some of Africa’s most popular chemical straighteners, like Dark & Lovely and TCB Naturals. (The Examination, Apr 10, 2024)
• Lunchables contain relatively high levels of lead, report says (WLTB Apr 11, 2024)
• Consumer Reports urges USDA to remove Lunchables from National School Lunch Program (Consumer Report Press Release, apr 9, 2024) I had no idea they were in schools! I wonder how that happened? How much profit? How much harm?
• Chemical exposure may reduce the success of weight loss surgery (EHN, Mar 30, 2024)
• EWG’s 2024 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™: The Dirty Dozen™ is packed with fungicides that can disrupt human hormones (EWG, Mar 20, 2024) This story also provides the “clean 15” foods.
• Concerns raised over health effects of chemicals leaching from food packaging (Chemistry World, Mar 14, 2024)
• Rethinking "BPA-free": Are alternatives any safer? (EHN Mar 7, 2024)
• New study links microplastics to a higher risk of heart attack, stroke, and death (EHN Mar 8, 2024)
• ‘Explosive growth’ in petrochemical production poses risks to human health (The Guardian Mar 6, 2024)
  
• How Environmental Toxins Impact Male Fertility and Future Generations
  JOHNS HOPKINS RESEARCHERS FIND THOUSANDS OF UNKNOWN CHEMICALS IN ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES Study identifies compounds undisclosed by popular brands including industrial chemicals, caffeine (Johns Hopkins, Oct 7, 2021)
• Vaping Isn’t Just A Turnoff, It’s Hurting Your Hormones And Ruining Your SkinDoes puffing on that vape really make you look adventurous and sexy or is it just smoke and mirrors? (Evie Feb 7 2024)
  
• Foods we eat are covered in plastics that may be causing a rise in premature births, study says (CNN Feb 6, 2024)
  
• Other outlets of same story:Chemicals Common in Food Packaging Linked to Preterm Birth WebMD, Feb 8 2024)
• Foods we eat may be wrapped in harmful plastics linked to premature births (EHN Curators, Feb 8, 2024 CNN)
• The Link Between Ovarian Cancer and Pesticides Increases Among Female Farmers (Beyond Pesticides, Feb 6, 2024)
• One In 10 Premature Births Linked To Plastic Chemicals Study (Barrons Feb 6, 2024)
• Ultra-processed foods: increased risk of cancer (US Right to Know Feb 1 2024)
• Ultra-processed foods: obesity and weight gain (US Right to Know Feb 1 2024)
• PFAS kill, the AIRC says. Greenpeace calls on the government to ban them (Breaking Latest News Jan 21, 2024)
• New Study Makes Unsettling Discovery About Supposedly Harmless Household Products: ‘there’s Very Little That People Can Do’ It’s in our clothing, everyday household products, and even in our water. (The Cool Down (TCD), Jan 22, 2024)
• More concerning than the nanoplastics in water bottles are the chemicals on them (Jan 18, 2024 Los Angeles Times)
• Laundry is a top source of microplastic pollution. Here’s how to clean your clothes more sustainably (Jan 13, 2024 PBS)
• Op-ed: What we know about toxic chemicals and children’s mental healthEvidence suggests chemical exposures are altering children’s brains. We need to tackle this interconnected crisis. (Jan 16, 2024 EHN)
• Could washing your hair promote weight gain? The role of substances in plastic bottles (Jan , 2022 The Times Hub)and link below for the scientific paperhttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2021/08/24/2021.07.29.454199.full.pdf
  
• How BPA and its evil cousins dodge meaningful regulation: The EU’s attempt to rein in BPA use has blind spots — and the US remains a distant laggard. (Jan 8, 2024 EHN)
  
• Forever Chemicals Found in Popular Supermarket Foods — Including Brands Like Annie's Organic and Del Monte (Jan 8, 2024 People)
  
• Burn After Wearing: A mountain of used clothes appeared in Chile’s desert. Then it went up in flames. (Jan 4, 2024 Grist)
• Could your diet impact endometriosis? Research points to dietary insights for treatment (Jan 4, 2024 News Medical/Life Sciences)
• The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food (Jan 4, 2024 Consumer Reports)
  
• LISTEN: Marissa Chan on dangerous hair care products in Boston stores: New research finds stores in Black, low-income Boston neighborhoods are more likely to sell potentially toxic hair care products. Here’s how we can change that. (Jan 3, 2024 Agents of Change in Environmental Justice)
  
• Testosterone & Sperm Counts in Freefall: Dr. Thinks Key Culprit Is Phthalates (Dec 7, 2023 The Good Men Project)

This summarizes an interview with Dr Shawna Swan who has been studying declining male sperm count for many years.

• Cells of people living in greener areas age more slowly, research finds Greener neighborhoods can slow ageing process of human cells but effects of environmental racism can erase any benefits (Dec 2, 2023 The Guardian)

Many people ask what we can do to offset the negative effects of endocrine disruptors. In addition to removing them from our environment and stop using them there is this good news story

• A greener clean: three ways to eco-proof your cleaning routine
• Conventional products can be bad for your health and for the environment. There are low-waste, biodegradable alternatives (Nov 30, 2023 The Guardian)
• ‘Tsunami’ of plastic damaging health must be stopped, scientists warn UN (Nov 12, 2023, The Telegraph)
• Pollutants found in breast milk, doctors’ advice to mothers (Nov 9, 2023, Ruetir)
• The chemical industry may have killed a landmark EU chemical policy. Here’s what that means for the US.: Upcoming elections, a right-wing resurgence, and political pressure from corporations and trade groups may mean hopes of improvements to once-lauded chemical regulation are dead. (Nov 9, 2023, Environmental Health News)
• US chemical industry likely spent $110m trying to thwart PFAS legislation, study finds: Analysis of federal lobbying documents by Food and Water Watch finds industry targeted dozens of pieces of legislation (Nov 7, 2023, The Guardian)
• Court Tosses EPA Chlorpyrifos Action: Appeals Court Sides With Ag, Vacates EPA Actions on Insecticide Chlorpyrifos (Nov 2, 2023) Progressive Farmer)
• Prenatal Exposure to Hormone Disrupting Chemicals Linked to Weight Gain Later in Life, Study Warns (Oct 27. 2023, Aboutlawsuits.com)
• Those scented candles you love are not healthy (Oct 24, 2023 Canadian National Observer- opinion)
• What Black women should know about hair relaxers and their health (Oct 18, 2023 NBC News)
• Doctors explain why relaxers can be so harmful, and what can people do if they think their hair straightening regimen has contributed to poor health.
• Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Science and Policy (2023: Policy insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences)
• Potentially harmful chemicals used in many cosmetic products banned by California governor (CNN Oct 11, 2023)}
• This story provides a link to “the 2022 Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act, or MoCRA, established new requirements for manufacturers and enforcement authorities for the FDA.

These conditions include requirements to report serious adverse events within 15 days, to register facilities with the FDA and renew registrations every two years, and to list each marketed cosmetic product and its ingredients with the agency and provide annual updates. Cosmetic companies also have a legal responsibility to ensure their products and ingredients are safe, as “neither the law nor FDA regulations require specific tests to demonstrate the safety of individual products or ingredients,” according to the FDA.”

• Preventable yet everywhere: harmful chemicals found in all kinds of consumer products underline need for stricter EU regulation (EUBusiness Oct 10, 2023)

This story references a number of proposals to phase out chemicals in toys and consumer products. (including test results and discussion of the Precautionary Principle)

• Study finds significant chemical exposures in women with cancer (Sept. 18, 2023, Science News)
• Clear link between PFAS, BPA exposures and a prior cancer diagnosis found in large national study (Science Daily Sept 18, 2023)
• Why 2% Is the Most Dangerous Number No One Is Talking About. The sheer quantity of chemicals being dumped into the environment is quickly growing—and we may only be seeing the beginning of the harm they are doing to us. (Opinion Common Dreams Sept 10, 2023)
• Syngenta v. scientist Chemical giant demands private files of neurology expert over journal article about link between paraquat and Parkinson's disease. (unSpun, Sept 5, 2023)
• California Legislature sends bill to Gov. Newsom that would ban cosmetics with chemicals linked to cancer, reproductive harm (Environmental Working Group, Sept, 2023)
• Opinion: What TEDx talk censorship reveals about the US chemical regulatory atmosphere (EHN Aug 24, 2023)
• Banned Ted Talk–Five Habits for Immune Health –Zandra Palma (TedTalk Mar 2023)
• Don't do harm in beauty! This chemical is dangerous for the skin (NewsTrack, Aug 23, 2023)
• Organic diets reduce glyphosate exposure for pregnant people: Study But only if they live far from agricultural fields) . (EHN, Aug 22, 2023)
• Pioneering study links testicular cancer among military personnel to ‘forever chemicals’ (KFFHealthNews, Aug 9, 2023)
• Back-to-school: Avoid PFAS in your kids’ backpack: New testing finds evidence of “forever chemicals” in 13 backpacks, including from popular brands like Nike, REI and L.L. Bean. (Environmental Health News, August 9, 2023)
• Obesogens: How They Sabotage Weight Loss and How to Reduce Exposure (healthnews August 8, 2023)
• Yes, Endocrine Disruptors can mess with your hormones- but there are ways to reduce your exposure (Well + Good, July 26, 2023)
• What are endocrine disrupting chemicals? (Environmental Health News July 25, 2023)
• The ugly side of beauty: Chemicals in cosmetics threaten college-age women’s reproductive health (Philly VOICE, June 2023)
• The Link Between Highly Processed Foods and Brain Health (NY Times, May 2023)
• Study: PFAS chemicals found in salad bowls and burger wrappers less safe than previously thought – STAT News article and study in Environmental Science & Technology Letters (May 2023)
• Toxic exposures accumulate in more than 100 categories of consumer products: Study (Environmental Health News, May 2023)
• Are everyday chemicals contributing to global obesity? (Royal Society of Chemistry, Dec, 2022)
• More chemicals, fewer words: Exposure to chemical mixtures during pregnancy alters brain development (Science Daily Feb,2022)
• Talking Women’s Hormonal Health with Michelle Sands, ND A naturopathic doctor shares the personal experiences that led her to a career helping women to optimize their physical and emotional health. (Feb 12, 2022)
• The Everyday Chemicals That Could Be Harming Your Hormone Health Women and children in particular are at risk from exposure to phthalates. (Feb 17, 2022)
• Pharmaceutical-contaminants-discovered-in-south-Florida-bonefish (Bonefish Tarpon Trust Feb, 2022)
• Estrogen-Mediated Cancers in Humans Has Links to Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides (Beyond Pesticides, Dec 13, 2022)
• Uterine Fibroids Linked To Chemicals Found In Common Products (Huffington Post Nov 18, 2022)
• For the first time, natural gas production linked to lower birth weights in a national study: The impacts were most significant among Black and Asian women (EHN Oct 21, 2022)
• Hair straightening chemicals associated with higher uterine cancer risk (Oct 18, 2022 National Institution of Health (NIH) news release)
• NIH study finds Black women may be more affected due to higher use.
• A stream of medicines and pharma ingredients is seeping into the environment with deadly effects: Many pharmaceutical compounds pass through the human body without losing their potency and end up in the Earth’s water bodies. (scroll in Oct 11, 2022)
• Epigenetic Memories Are Passed Down 14 Successive Generations, Game-Changing Research Reveals (Epoch Times, Aug 24, 2022)
• Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Contribute to Liver Injury, including Toxic PFA's and Pesticides (Beyond Pesticides, Aug 12, 2022)
• Study finds harmful chemicals present in large samples of pregnant women (John's Hopkins University, Aug 11, 2022)
• “Inert” Pesticide Ingredients and Failure to Regulate Raise Dangers for All U.S. Residents (Beyond Pesticides, August 9, 2022)
• Probing Personal Care Products: Look Out for Harmful Ingredients (NIH in The Epoch Times, August 2, 2022) The end of the story has links to many very recent research papers that you may want to select for closer reading in the class.
• Pesticide Exposure Driving Liver Disease through Hormone Disrupting Mechanisms (Beyond Pesticides, July 21, 2022)
• Op-ed: Are we getting dumber? Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are an assault on children’s developing brains. (Environmental Health News, July 21, 2022)
• Take Action: Male Fertility Harmed by Pesticides and EPA Dysfunction (Beyond Pesticides, July 18, 2022)
• Study Proves That Prenatal Exposure to Chemicals Can Cause Liver Disease in Children (July 11, 2022)
• Rare genital defects seen in sons of men taking major diabetes drug: Large study hints that taking metformin before conception could raise risk of birth defects (March 22, 2022)
• "It is important to note that "this paper is the first word, not the last word" quoted by Russell Kirby, a birth defect epidemiologist at University of South Florida."
• Chemicals in Hair, Beauty Products May Interfere With Hormones During Pregnancy (Dec 16, 2021)
• Here is a link to the research paper: Personal care products: Demographic characteristics and maternal hormones in pregnant women from Puerto Rico (Nov 2021)
• Plastic additive increases breast cancer relapse, mortality: New science (Dec 2, 2021)
• Pollutants Tied to Changes in Ratio of Boys to Girls Born (Dec 9, 2021)
• Podcasts about plastics
• Environmental Endocrine-Disrupting Chemical Exposure: Role in Non-Communicable Diseases (Sept 24, 2021)
• Six tips to avoid phthalates after study highlights health harms, billion-dollar costs (Oct 19, 2021)
• How to purge risky chemicals from your beauty products (Vox, Dec 30 2021)
• Plastics pose threat to human health: Authoritative report shows plastic, microplastics are pervasive sources of exposure to dangerous endocrine-disrupting chemicals (Dec 2020; The Endocrine Society and IPEN)
• The Jan 29, 2022 New Scientist has a story about the "exposome". How our environment is making us sick – and what we can do about it
• They reference another NIEH group and resource called Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource
• Here is the agenda for the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Endocrine Disruptors

https://www.grc.org/environmental-endocrine-disruptors-conference/2022/

Also, this news story about relationships between phthalates and childhood cancer is probably of interest to you as well.

• Exposure to phthalates -- the 'everywhere chemical' -- may increase children's cancer risk
• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220316145830.htm
• Plastics pose threat to human health: Authoritative report shows plastic, microplastics are pervasive sources of exposure to dangerous endocrine-disrupting chemicals (Dec 2020; The Endocrine Society and IPEN)
• Impact of prenatal phthalate exposure on newborn metabolome and infant neurodevelopment (Nature Comm 2025)
• Impact of the environmental endocrine disruptor 4-octylphenol on reproductive function in pubertal male mice (Env Res, 2025)
• Associations between urinary phthalate metabolites and reproductive, adrenal, and gonadotropic hormones in peripubertal children: the Hokkaido study (Env Res 2025)
• Prenatal residential proximity to endocrine disrupting agricultural pesticides and menstrual cycle characteristics among Latina adolescents in California (Am J Epidemiol 2025)
• Transgenerational Thyroid Hormone Disruption in Zebrafish Induced by Environmentally Relevant Concentrations of Triclosan (Env Poll, 2025)
• Endocrine-disrupting pesticide exposure relevant to reproductive health: a case study from Costa Rica (Env Mon and Assess 2025)
• Personal care products exposure patterns and prostate cancer: evidence from a case-control study in Mexico City (J of Exposure Sci and Env Epid 2025)
• Romance in peril: A common pesticide impairs mating behaviours and male fertility of solitary bees (Osmia bicornis) (Chemosphere 2025)
• Young Children’s Exposure to Chemicals of Concern in Their Sleeping Environment: An In-Home Study (EcoTox and Pub Health, 2025)
• Global Research Trends in Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals—A Two-Decade (2003–2023) Bibliometric Perspective (Bio Bull Rev 2024)
• Reducing Exposures to Endocrine Disruptors (REED) study, a personalized at-home intervention program to reduce exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals among a child-bearing age cohort: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (Trials 2024)
• Urinary Glyphosate, 2,4-D and DEET Biomarkers in Relation to Neurobehavioral Performance in Ecuadorian Adolescents in the ESPINA Cohort (EHP 2023)
• Effects of perinatal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals on the reproductive system of F3 generation male rodents: a meta-analysis (Env Sci and Poll Res 2022)
• Influence of bisphenol A and its analogues on human gut microbiota composition and metabolic activity: Insights from an in vitro model (Sci Tot Env 2024)
• Additives in Processed Foods as a Potential Source of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: A Review (J Xenogiot 2024)
• Prenatal phthalate exposure and adverse birth outcomes in the USA: A prospective analysis of births and estimates of attributable burdens and costs (The Lancet Planetary Health, 2024)
• Phthalates and reproductive toxicity: Hypothalmic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis aspects (J Haz Mat, 2023)
• Endocrine disruption potential of dust in children's indoor environments: Associations with multiple chemicals from various compound classes across exposure matrices used for health risk assessment (Env Res 2025)
• Dietary bisphenols exposure as an influencing factor of body mass index (Env Hlth 2024)
• Nuclear receptors: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutics (Essays in Biochem Nov 2021)- really great images of nuclear receptors.
• Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds in Urban Soils of Malaysia: Occurrence, Contamination, and Impacts on Health and the Environment (Trop Aqu and Soil Poll 2024)
• The mixture of non-persistent endocrine-disrupting chemicals in relation to endometriosis (EcoTox and Env Sfty 2024)
• From e-waste to living space: Flame retardants contaminating household items add to concern about plastic recycling (Chemosphere, 2024)
• Phthalate exposure during pregnancy and its association with thyroid hormones: A prospective cohort study (Int J. Hyg and Env Hlth 2024)
• Prenatal and childhood exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and early thelarche in 8-year-old girls: A prospective study using Bayesian kernel regression (Env. Res 2024)
• Should Pregnant Women Consume Probiotics to Combat Endocrine-Disrupting Chemical-Induced Health Risks to Their Unborn Offspring? (Biomeds 2024)
• Exposure and potential risks of thirteen endocrine- disrupting chemicals in pharmaceuticals and personal care products for breastfed infants in China (Env Int 2024)
• Identification of Environmental Compounds That May Trigger Early Female Puberty by Activating Human GnRHR and KISS1R (Endocrinol. 2024)
• Potential mammary carcinogens used in food contact articles: implications for policy, enforcement, and prevention (Front. Toxicol 2024)
• Links between fecal microplastics and parameters related to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in humans: An exploratory study (Sci Tot Env, 2024)
• Evidence for widespread human exposure to food contact chemicals (J. Exp Sci and Env Epid, 2024)
• Impact of Skin Care Products on Phthalates and Phthalate Replacements in Children: the ECHO-FGS (Env. Health. Persp. 2024)
• In vitro endocrine and cardiometabolic toxicity associated with artificial turf materials (Env. Tox and Pharm, 2024)
• Which is the current knowledge on man-made endocrine- disrupting chemicals in follicular fluid? An overview of effects on ovarian function and reproductive health (Front. Endocrinol 2024)
• Exposure to Multiple Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Associations with Female Infertility: A Case-Control Study (Env and Health, 2024)
• Occurrence, distribution, and fate evaluation of endocrine disrupting compounds in three wastewater treatment plants with different treatment technologies in Türkiye (Sci Total Env, 2024)
• Tiny pills, big impacts: A systematic review on the endocrine disrupting effects of paediatric pharmaceuticals (Env. Tox and Pharm 2024)
• Current Knowledge on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) from Animal Biology to Humans, from Pregnancy to Adulthood: Highlights from a National Italian Meeting (Int J Mol. Sci 2018)
• A comprehensive review of biochar in removal of organic pollutants from wastewater: Characterization, toxicity, activation/functionalization and influencing treatment factors (J of Water Process Engineering, 2022)
• Plastics pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries (One Earth, preprint, 2024)
• Prenatal exposure to synthetic chemicals in relation to HPA axis activity: A systematic review of the epidemiological literature (Science of the Total Environment, Dec 2024)
• Residents say Pennsylvania has failed communities after state studies linked fracking to child cancer (EHN Sept 19, 2024)
• Oil and Natural Gas Production Health (ONGP) Concerns 
• Evidence for widespread human exposure to food contact chemicals (Review Geueke, B., Parkinson, L.V., Groh, K.J. et al. Evidence for widespread human exposure to food contact chemicals. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-024-00718-2
• Unravelling the Influence of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals on Obesity Pathophysiology Pathways (ReviewAdv Exp Med Biol. 2024:1460:883-918. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-63657-8_30
• Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and the Development of Diabetes Mellitus Type 1: A 5-Year Systematic Review (Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2024, 25(18), 10111; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms251810111 (registering DOI)
• Unraveling the Impact of Plasticizers on Human Health: Insights from Gut Microbiota and Toxicological Perspectives Frontiers book being made expected completion Dec, 2024)
• Impact of Skin Care Products on Phthalates and Phthalate Replacements in Children: the ECHO-FGS (Bloom et al, 2024) Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 132, Issue 9 CID: 097001 https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP13937
• Early Pregnancy Plasma Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Maternal Midlife Adiposity The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, dgae542, https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgae542
• Exposure to Multiple Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals and Associations with Female Infertility: A Case-Control Study 2024 Environ. Health 2024, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX Wei et al

https://doi.org/10.1021/envhealth.4c00040

• Effects of Early Life Exposures to the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Ligand TCDF on Gut Microbiota and Host Metabolic Homeostasis in C57BL/6J Mice (Environ Health Perspect. 2024 Aug; 132(8): 087005). Published online 2024 Aug 14. doi: 10.1289/EHP13356
• Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) and Male Infertility ((review) Rocco et al 2024)
• Neonicotinoids differentially modulate nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in immature and antral follicles in the mouse ovary (Mourikes et al, 2024)
• Dirty Minds: How Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) and Other Pollutants Affect the Neuroendocrinology of Behavior and Emotions Patisaul, H.B. (2024). Dirty Minds: How Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) and Other Pollutants Affect the Neuroendocrinology of Behavior and Emotions. In: Caldwell, H.K., Albers, H.E. (eds) Neuroendocrinology of Behavior and Emotions. Masterclass in Neuroendocrinology, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51112-7_9
• Paternal exposures to endocrine-disrupting chemicals induce intergenerational epigenetic influences on offspring: A review (Zhang et al, 2024)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2024.108689

• Ongoing exposure to endocrine disrupting phthalates and alternative plasticizers in neonatal intensive care unit patients (Panneel et al, 2024, Environment International)
• Empowering Student Pharmacists to Counsel Patients on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals through Interactive Role-Play (Cernasev et al, 2024, Pharmacy)
• A review of endocrine disrupting chemicals migration from food contact materials into beverages (Abassi et al, 2024, Chemosphere)
• Endocrine disrupting chemicals and their harmful effects in fish: A comprehensive review
• Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Atheromas and Cardiovascular Events (New England Journal of Medicine; Mar 7, 2024) N Engl J Med 2024; 390:900-910 DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa2309822
• In vitro assessment of potential endocrine disrupting activities of chlorinated paraffins of various chain lengths (Toxicology and applied pharmacology, March 2024)
• Independent and synergistic effects of microplastics and endocrine-disrupting chemicals on the reproductive social behavior of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) (Ecology and Evolution, 2024)
• The Association between Long-Term DDT or DDE Exposures and an Altered Sperm Epigenome—a Cross-Sectional Study of Greenlandic Inuit and South African VhaVenda Men (EHP publishing, Jan 31, 2024) https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP12013
• The Effects of E-Cigarette Vapor Components on the Morphology and Function of the Male and Female Reproductive Systems: A Systematic Review (secondary literatureInt J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Sep; 17(17): 6152) doi: 10.3390/ijerph17176152
• Prenatal phthalate exposure and adverse birth outcomes in the USA: a prospective analysis of births and estimates of attributable burden and costs (the Lancet Feb 2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(23)00270-X
• National, regional, and global estimates of preterm birth in 2020, with trends from 2010: a systematic analysis https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00878-4 (The Lancet, 2023)
• Agricultural exposure and risk of ovarian cancer in the AGRIculture and CANcer (AGRICAN) cohort (BMJ Journal https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2023-109089 2024- would need to request article by interlibrary loan)
• Coastal wastewater treatment plants as a source of endocrine disrupting micropollutants: a case study of Lithuania in the Baltic Sea (Marine Pollution Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116084 March 2024)
• Food processing and cancer risk in Europe: results from the prospective EPIC cohort study (The Lancet March 2023)
• The regulation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals to minimize their impact on health (Review article from Nature Review endocrinology, 19, pages 600–614 (2023)
• Maternal Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: Analysis of their Impact on Infant Gut Microbiota Composition (Biomedicines 2024, 12,https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines12010234)
• A vision for safer food contact materials: Public health concerns as drivers for improved testing. (Muncke, J et al. 2023 Environment International 180: 108161).
• Impacts of food contact chemicals on human health: a consensus statement. (Muncke, J et al. 2020 Environmental Health 3:19(1):25.) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32122363/
• https://keycharacteristics.org/
• Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: Science and Policy (2023) Policy Insight from the behavioral and Brain sciences 10(2) 142-150
• Priority list of potential endocrine-disrupting chemicals in food chemical contaminants: a docking study and in vitro/epidemiological evidence integration (SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research Nov 2023 https://doi.org/10.1080/1062936X.2023.2269855)
• Toxic Effects of Glyphosate on the Nervous System: A Systematic Review (Int J Mol Sci. 2022 May; 23(9): 4605. Published online 2022 Apr 21. doi: 10.3390/ijms23094605)
• Endocrine disrupting chemicals and male fertility: from physiological to molecular effects (2023: Frontiers in Public Health)
• Exploratory profiles of phenols, parabens, and per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances among NHANES study participants in association with previous cancer diagnoses (J. of Exposure Science and Env Epidemiology (Sept 18, 2023)
• Revisiting the “forever chemicals”, PFOA and PFOS exposure in drinking water (Nature, 2023)
• Endocrine‐disrupting compounds and metabolomic reprogramming in breast cancer (Winz et al 2023)
• Effect of endocrine disrupting compounds present in food on the enzymatic activity of methionine synthase in neuronal cells G García-Cerón, AF Solano-González… - 2023
• Prenatal exposures to endocrine disrupting chemicals: The role of multi-omics in understanding toxicity Molecular and Cellular …, 2023
• Do macrophages play a role in the adverse effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on testicular functions? Front. Toxicol. Sec. Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology Volume 5 - 2023 | doi: 10.3389/ftox.2023.1242634
• The regulation of endocrine disrupting chemicals to minimize their impact on health (2023, Nature Reviews endocrinology)
• Identifying Toxic Consumer Products: A Novel Data Set Reveals Air Emissions of Potent Carcinogens, Reproductive Toxicants, and Developmental Toxicants (2023, Env Sci & tech)
• Xeno-Estrogenic Pesticides and the Risk of Related Human Cancers (2022, J of Xenobiotics)
• Effects of consumer products chemicals ingredients and their mixtures on the estrogen receptor/androgen receptor transcriptional activation (2022 Chemosphere)
• Association between chemical mixtures and female fertility in women undergoing assisted reproduction in Sweden and Estonia (2023 Environmental Research)
• The effects of endocrine‐disrupting chemicals on ovarian‐ and ovulation‐related fertility outcomes (Review Molecular Reproduction and Development 2022).
• Mono-(2-ethyl-5-hydroxyhexyl) phthalate promotes uterineleiomyoma cell survival through tryptophan-kynurenine-AHRpathway activation (PNAS 2022) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208886119
• Associations between proximity to gas production activity in counties and birth outcomes across the US (Preventative Medicine Reports Dec 2022)
• Exposure to Contemporary and Emerging Chemicals in Commerce among Pregnant Women in the United States: The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcome (ECHO) Program (2022)
• Preconception Antidiabetic Drugs in Men and Birth Defects in Offspring. (Mar 2022)
• Innovation in regulatory approaches for endocrine disrupting chemicals: The journey to risk assessment modernization in Canada (March 2022)
• Chapter 14 - Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and PCOS: A novel contributor in the etiology of the syndrome (2022)
• In utero exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, maternal factors and alterations in the epigenetic landscape underlying later-life health effects (Review Jan 2022)
• Proximity to endocrine-disrupting pesticides and risk of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) among adolescents: A population-based case-control study in California (Jan 2022)
• Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Aquatic Ecosystem: An Emerging Threat to Wildlife and Human Health (Review, Nov 2021)
• Effects of common environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals on zebrafish behavior (Jan 2022)
• Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Reproductive Health in Boys and Men (2021)
• Maternal dietary patterns during pregnancy and exposure to persistent endocrine disrupting chemicals in two European birth cohorts (Dec 2021)
• Systematic review of prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals and autism spectrum disorder in offspring (Aug, 2021)
• Regulation of endocrine systems by the microbiome: Perspectives from comparative animal models A scientific paper than joins EDC's research with microbiota! (Feb 2020)
• New insights on the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on children (Review: Dec 2021)
• Effect of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Exposure on Reproduction and Endocrine Functions Using the Zebrafish Model (Nov. 2021)
• Epigenetic Mechanisms of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Obesity (Review, Nov 2021)
• Associated Effects of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) on Neuroendocrine Axes and Neurotransmitter Profile in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Condition (Review, 2021)
• Hair dye and chemical straightener use and breast cancer risk in a large US population of black nd white women (International Journal of Cancer July 2020)