{"id":18315,"date":"2016-06-21T01:17:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T05:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=18315"},"modified":"2016-06-21T10:44:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T14:44:51","slug":"europe-releases-weakened-criteria-regulating-endocrine-disruptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2016\/06\/europe-releases-weakened-criteria-regulating-endocrine-disruptors\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Releases Weakened Criteria for Regulating Endocrine Disruptors"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Beyond Pesticides, June 21, 2016) New regulations issued by the European Commission (EU) last week to regulate endocrine disruptors in pesticide products are being criticized by public interest groups and scientists as undermining the precautionary legal standard governing pesticide use in Europe. Previous \u00a0investigations<\/a> and reports<\/a> \u00a0have uncovered \u00a0industry\u2019s attempt to quash efforts to enact robust protections from these harmful chemicals, despite their likely contribution to billions of dollars in lost revenue<\/a> due to health effects.<\/p>\n

\"European_Commission.svg\"EC\u2019s new rules endorse the World Health Organization\u2019s definition of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC). The WHO defines an endocrine disruptor as “an exogenous substance or mixture that alters function(s) of the endocrine system and consequently causes adverse health effects in an intact organism, or its progeny, or (sub)populations,” However, the proposed regulations go little beyond defining the term. \u201cThe WHO definition is not a criteria, it is just a definition,\u201d said Andreas Kortenkamp, PhD to The Guardian<\/a><\/em>. \u201cIn effect, the commission has decided to place the burden of deciding how to regulate endocrine-disrupting chemicals onto the assessors on a case-by-case basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of concern is the level to which the rules reflect a hazard or risk-based criteria. While EC asserts that its rules will follow the law\u2019s charge to implement hazard-based criteria, which addresses the inherent risk associated with exposure to a chemical, the new proposal will permit exemptions when risk of exposure is negligible. This would appear to provide a major loophole to the original intent of the law, as it is suggested that the exemption be evaluated in the form of a risk assessment. \u201cIt is a total reversal of the intention of the regulation,\u201d Dr. Kortenberg said to The Guardian<\/a><\/em>, \u201cthe worst of all the possible outcomes. Risk assessments are precisely what industry has lobbied for, and the commission has given it to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Per Pesticide Action Network Europe\u2019s report, Impact Assessment of the Criteria for Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides<\/a>, the EC proposal follows what is known as option 2, which would lead to banning only a few pesticides. However, PAN-Europe notes<\/a> that because of the potential for derogations (exemptions) based on risk of exposure, the proposal \u201cwill effectively result in no single endocrine disrupting chemical being banned.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere cannot be any other conclusion but that Commission lets the interests of trade and industry prevail over the interests of the public and fails to reduce the millions of health costs and the suffering of people in Europe due to endocrine related diseases,\u201d said PAN-Europe in a press release<\/a>. Studies prepared for the EC by international teams of scientists and researchers determined that the health care costs imposed by public exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals resulted in over \u00e2\u201a\u00ac 150 billion ($162 billion) in health care costs<\/a> to the European Union each year. The most significant economic drain was attributed to loss of brain function for the next generation, with an estimated 13 million IQ points lost due to prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides. A subsequent study<\/a> focused on the health care costs of female reproductive disorders in the EU also found costs to be substantial. Attributable cases of DDE-induced fibroids were estimated to be 56,700 and phthalate-induced endometriosis at 145,000. \u00a0This was calculated to result in \u00e2\u201a\u00ac163 million ($183 million) and \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1.25 billion ($1.4 billion) in health care costs, respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, today\u2019s package seems to confirm our concerns that the commission has lowered its ambition concerning strong EDC criteria so as not to jeopardise the TTIP [Transatlantic Trade and investment Partnership] talks with the U.S.,\u201d said Sylbia Maurer of the Europe-based consumer group BEUC to The Guardian.<\/a><\/em> Last year, several reports of US-based intervention on behalf of the international agrichemical industry<\/a> surfaced as negotiations on TTIP wore on. Despite TTIP effectively stalled in the US without support from either major party Presidential candidate, European environmental and consumer groups charge that industry has won the concessions it sought.<\/p>\n

If no derogations apply, the pesticides mancozeb<\/a>, maneb<\/a>, metconazole<\/a>, propyzamide<\/a>, thiophanate-methyl<\/a>, and tralkoxydim are likely to be banned. In late April, the EU banned its first pesticides<\/a> as a result of their endocrine disrupting properties.<\/p>\n

While the EC \u00a0begins a process to regulate endocrine disruptors, the U.S. has taken little action despite a mandate from the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) that requires EPA to screen pesticides for their endocrine disrupting potential. Thus far, the agency has only partially screened some chemicals.<\/p>\n

Under EPA\u2019s endocrine disruption screening protocol (EDSP), the agency uses a two-tiered approach \u00a0to screen pesticide chemicals and environmental contaminants for their potential effect on estrogen, androgen and thyroid hormone systems. EPA\u2019s last publicly released report for tier 1 screening<\/a> of only 52 chemicals found \u00a0no evidence of endocrine pathways for 20 chemicals. For 14 chemicals that the agency said did show potential interaction, EPA stated that it \u201calready has enough information to conclude that they do not pose risks.\u201d Of the remaining 18 chemicals, EPA found that all showed potential interaction with the thyroid pathway, 17 of them with the androgen (male hormones) pathway, and 14 also potentially interacted with the estrogen (female hormones) pathway.<\/p>\n

It will take several more years for EPA to completely screen any endocrine disrupting chemicals. Not surprisingly, \u00a0EPA\u2019s EDSP has been heavily criticized<\/a> for decades-long delays and not putting the chemicals through more rigorous testing that includes low dose responses in the interest of protecting human health and the environment. The agency does not evaluate the potential for chemicals to exhibit non-monotonic dose response curves, where a material shows the potential for a harmful response at low, even minute levels of exposure. This effect, confirmed through independent research<\/a>, challenges the traditional toxicological maxim that “the dose makes the poison.” \u00a0 The failure to incorporate modern toxicological science has led researchers to criticize EPA\u2019s testing protocol as \u00a0outdated<\/strong><\/a>, and not keeping pace with advancing science.<\/p>\n

Beyond Pesticides supports strong protections from pesticides and endocrine disruptors by pushing for regulatory action that supports and encourages alternative products and practices that do not require these chemicals. Through the \u00a0Eating with a Conscience<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0tool, those concerned about pesticides on their produce and can find out the chemicals that are allowed in their production. Beyond Pesticides\u2019 \u00a0Lawn and Landscapes<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0webpage helps property owners manage healthy, weed-free lawns without the use of pesticides linked to endocrine disruption and other ill health effects. The \u00a0ManageSafe<\/strong><\/a> \u00a0database helps homeowners and renters control household pests without toxic pesticides. Ultimately, by supporting \u00a0organic agriculture<\/strong><\/a>, which \u00a0disallows the use of harmful synthetic pesticides, the health and economic burden endocrine disruptors and other pesticides put on our society can be drastically reduced.<\/p>\n

See Tyrone Hayes, Ph.D., professor at the University of California Berkeley deliver his talk, Learning from an Environmental Tragedy<\/a>, at Beyond Pesticides’ 33rd National Pesticides Forum.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: European Commission Press Release<\/a>, PAN-Europe Press Release<\/a>, The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The WHO defines an endocrine disruptor as “an exogenous substance or mixture that alters function(s) of the endocrine system and consequently causes adverse health effects in an intact organism, or its progeny, or (sub)populations,” However, the proposed regulations go little beyond defining the term. \u201cThe WHO definition is not a criteria, it is just a definition,\u201d said Andreas Kortenkamp, PhD to The Guardian. \u201cIn effect, the commission has decided to place the burden of deciding how to regulate endocrine-disrupting chemicals onto the assessors on a case-by-case basis.\u201d Of concern is the level to which the rules reflect a hazard or risk-based criteria. 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