{"id":11012,"date":"2013-06-28T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=11012"},"modified":"2013-07-01T14:17:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:17:12","slug":"epa-acknowledges-low-dose-effects-defends-its-current-testing-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2013\/06\/epa-acknowledges-low-dose-effects-defends-its-current-testing-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Acknowledges Low Dose Effects, Defends Its Current Testing Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<i>Beyond Pesticides<\/i>, June 28, 2013) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/epa.gov\/ncct\/download_files\/edr\/NMDR.pdf\">State of the Science<\/a>\u201d report last week acknowledging that low dose responses \u201cdo occur in biological systems\u201d while defending its current risk assessment procedures as adequate for evaluating low dose effects. This report comes after EPA\u2019s long running failure to fully implement a 1996 Congressionally mandated program to evaluate endocrine disruptors, and heavy criticism last year from prominent scientists who said EPA\u2019s testing procedures are outdated.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999 the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed a lawsuit against the EPA for failing to meet a statutory deadline for implementation of the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP) required under the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act, forcing the EPA to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/endo\/pubs\/settlement.pdf\">settlement agreement<\/a>. As a result of \u00a0<em>NRDC et al. v. EPA (<\/em>No. C-99-03701 CAL) filed in the Northern District of California, EPA agreed to start requiring screening and testing of certain chemicals varying by date, using a tiered system.<\/p>\n<p>EPA\u2019s two-tiered screening and testing system, requires that EPA will identify which chemicals are able to interact with the endocrine system in Tier 1. Tier 2 screening process was designed to go one step further, requiring EPA to determine endocrine effects at various doses. EPA is currently developing Tier 2 tests as well as selecting chemicals for screening. Despite the statutory mandate to screen chemicals for potential endocrine disrupting effects, EPA has yet to regulate endocrine disruptors through a finalized Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP) and testing procedures.<\/p>\n<p>In its draft report, EPA acknowledges for the first time that low dose responses to hormone altering chemicals \u201cdo occur in biological system but are generally not common.\u201d The report states that low dose responses observed in endocrine endpoints may be biologically relevant and should be evaluated in contest with the totality of the available scientific data, including epidemiologic and human studies. While this is a great step forward for advancing science at the agency, especially when it comes to evaluating endocrine disrupting effects, the agency <a href=\"http:\/\/epa.gov\/ncct\/download_files\/edr\/NMDR.pdf\">defended<\/a> its current risk assessment procedures saying: \u201cThere currently is no reproducible evidence [that low dose responses] are predictive of outcomes that may be seen in humans or wildlife populations for estrogen, androgen or thyroid endpoints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report is written by EPA, with input from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as input from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the National Institute of Child Health and Development, both of which review the science on endocrine-disruptors. The report will also be peer reviewed by the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a team of 12 scientists who study hormone-altering chemicals, led by Laura Vandenberg, PhD, \u00a0 Tufts University\u2019s Levin Lab Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, criticized EPA \u201d\u02dcs outdated testing methodologies . The scientists focused on the importance of \u201cnon-monotonic dose response\u201d which demonstrates that some chemicals can act irregularly with greater health impacts at low doses. Generally, EPA tests the impact of high doses on humans and the environment and then extrapolates the results for exposure at lower doses. Currently, EPA uses high dose testing to predict low dose safety despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=7087\">research<\/a> that shows many hormone altering chemicals do not act according to normal dose curves.<\/p>\n<p>EPA\u2019s report was praised by the American Chemistry Council, an industry-led group representing 135 chemical companies that has periodically launched campaigns to delay the release of EPA&#8217;s chemical risk assessment.Meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=7087\">many scientists<\/a> have given EPA faint praise and much criticism. Dr. Vandenberg acknowledged that EPA\u2019s admission that non-monotonic responses exist was a step in the right direction. However, the conclusion that high dose responses can predict for safety standards at low doses, \u201cflies in the face of our knowledge of how hormones work,\u201d said Dr. Vandenberg to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalhealthnews.org\/ehs\/news\/2013\/epa-low-dose\"><i>Environmental Health News<\/i><\/a>. Endocrine disruptors \u201care overtly toxic but act like hormones with completely different actions at low doses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Vandenburg also criticized EPA for using outdated science on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/gateway\/index.php?pname=atrazine.htm\">atrazine<\/a>, rather than using the multitude of current and new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0960076011000665\">publications<\/a> that show the, \u201cconsistent, low-dose effects of this chemical on amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds and mammals.\u201d Similarly, the reports\u2019 discussion of low-dose effects of bisphenol A\u201d\u201da common additive to plastic containers, toys, and receipts\u201d\u201don prostate, \u201care also about a decade out of date, and give credence to industry funded studies that had flawed experimental designs and failed positive controls,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Putting these chemicals through more rigorous testing that include low dose responses is in the interest of protecting human health and the environment.  \u00a0\u201cAccepting these phenomena should lead to paradigm shifts in toxicological studies, and will likely also have lasting effects on regulatory science,\u201d wrote Dr. Vandenberg\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>On June 14, 2013, EPA made available the list of commercial chemicals identified for endocrine screening, which include 109 chemicals, 41 of which are pesticide active ingredients. \u00a0 However, it remains unclear whether low dose effects of hormone altering drugs has been or will be integrated into the screening process. On June 25, 2013 they made that list open to a 30 day public comment period after which the OMB will initiate a review. \u00a0 The review is the final step before EPA can actually begin issuing orders to chemical and pesticide manufacturers. See EPA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/endo\/\">EDSP webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The annoucnment follows a May 2011 Inspector General report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/oig\/reports\/2011\/20110503-11-P-0215.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">EPA\u2019s Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program Should Establish Management Controls to Ensure More Timely Results<\/a>, that found that EPA had missed all its deadlines to implement the law. The report found that, \u201cFourteen years after passage of the FQPA [Food Quality Protection Act] and Safe Drinking Water Act amendments, EPA\u2019s EDSP has not determined whether any chemical is a potential endocrine disruptor.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the effects of pesticides on human health, including endocrine disruption, see Beyond Pesticides\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/health\/index.htm\">Pesticide Induced Diseases Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Source: <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalhealthnews.org\/ehs\/news\/2013\/epa-low-dose\"><i>Environmental Health News<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, June 28, 2013) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft \u201cState of the Science\u201d report last week acknowledging that low dose responses \u201cdo occur in biological systems\u201d while defending its current risk assessment procedures as adequate for evaluating low dose effects. 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