Revising the EU strategy on endocrine disruptors: nearing a decisive moment.

In December 1999, when the EU Commission issued the Strategy on Endocrine Disruptors 1 , researchers had already recorded impacts on wildlife in polluted areas throughout the world (e.g. reproductive and immune problems in Baltic seals). Links were being drawn to human diseases and disorders, such as testicular, breast and prostate cancers, decline in sperm counts, reproductive organ deformities, thyroid dysfunction, intelligence and neurological problems. 1