In March 2017 the European Centre For Ecotoxicology And Toxicology Of Chemicals (ECETOC) published a technical report entitled “The ECETOC seven steps for the identification of endocrine disrupting properties (ECETOC 7SI-ED).” The report comes in response to the outline of a draft guidance for the implementation of the European Commission’s (EC) criteria to identify endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that was published by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in December 2016 (FPF reported). ECETOC “has developed science-based guidance showing how the ECHA and EFSA outline . . . may be put into practice,” the industry association stated. The report focuses on ECHA and EFSA’s ‘Hazard identification strategy for endocrine disrupting properties,’ covering human and environmental health, and focusing particularly on the use of a weight-of-evidence (WoE) approach for assessing and integrating available scientific information on a substance’s endocrine disrupting properties.
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ECETOC (March 31, 2017). “ECETOC develops seven steps for the identification of endocrine disrupting properties (ECETOC 7SI-ED).”
Reference
ECETOC (March 2017). “The ECETOC seven steps for the identification of endocrine disrupting properties (ECETOC 7SI-ED).” Technical Report No. 130 (pdf)
