US EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
The final list of chemicals for initial Tier 1 Screening under the Endocrine Distruptor Screening Program includes chemicals that the Agency, in its discretion, has decided should be tested first, based upon exposure potential. The first group of 67 chemicals identified for testing includes pesticide active ingredients and High Production Volume (HPV) chemicals used as pesticide inert ingredients (also known as other ingredients). This list should not be construed as a list of known or likely endocrine disruptors. The list is at:
http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/oscpendo/pubs/prioritysetting/finallist.html.
http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/oscpendo/pubs/prioritysetting/finallist.html.
Nothing in the approach for generating the initial list provides a basis to infer that by simply being on this list these chemicals are suspected to interfere with the endocrine systems of humans or other species, and it would be inappropriate to do so.
The final list was published in a Federal Register Notice in April 2009. Because this list of chemicals was selected on the basis of exposure potential only, it should not be construed or characterized as a list of known or likely endocrine disruptors. Read more about this list.
