New study provides urine and serum profiles of BPA in 10 volunteers who participated in Teeguarden et al. (2015) study
Special chemical searchers in Wikipedia
Swiss researchers develop new tool allowing substructure and similarity searchers for molecules in Wikipedia
US: Bill to introduce BPA warnings on food packaging
US Senator Diane Feinstein introduces “BPA in Food Packaging Right to Know Act”
Conference on biobased packaging
“Biobased Packaging 2015” will take place in May 2015 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Toxic body burden of Americans
Bill Couzens from Next Generation Choices Foundation encourages US consumers to act on the issue of harmful chemicals
Authorship of chemicals bill questioned
Authorship of new chemical safety act introduced by U.S. Senators David Vitter and Tom Udall is being questioned
Chemical substitutions with no regrets
US scientists discuss how “regrettable substitutions” may be avoided, intentional chemical design needed
ECHA to evaluate 134 substances in years 2015-2017
ECHA adopted Community Rolling Action Plan (CoRAP), 48 substances specified for 2015
Chemical industry view of endocrine disruption
CEFIC’s video explains industry’s view of endocrine disruption, criteria to identify EDCs should include potency, severity and adversity
Teleconference to discuss costs of EDC exposure
Teleconference call featuring authors of recently published studies on costs caused by EDCs will take place on March 24, 2015