caa a22 4500 378861409 CHVBK 20180305123347.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20030101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1351/pac200375112593 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1351/pac200375112593 Lyons G. World Wildlife Fund European Program, 17 The Avenues, Norwich NR2 3PH, UK Endocrine active substances and the need to improve environmental protection: An environmentalist's perspective [Elektronische Daten] [G. Lyons] This paper reviews the existing concerns and presents conclusions and recommendations for action. The first section outlines an environmentalist's perspective and predicts that endocrine active substances (EASs) pose a high risk for wildlife populations. The second section explains that risk assessment, as currently practiced for individual chemicals, does not adequately protect the environment, and suggests several improvements that should be made. However, it is argued that the properties of endocrine disruption lead to increased uncertainty in the risk assessment, such that countries wishing to achieve a high level of protection would be justified in implementing precautionary controls. The third section outlines some conclusions and additionally provides an appraisal of the responses of governments and industry. Furthermore, several recommendations are made, particularly the imperative for research funding to be substantially increased and guaranteed for many years to come. Also highlighted is the need to hasten the development of screens and tests for ecotoxicity, and for governments to commit to a comprehensive sorting, screening, and toxicity testing program for all chemicals to which significant exposure occurs. © 2013 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Pure and Applied Chemistry De Gruyter 75/11-12(2003-01-01), 2593-2604 0033-4545 75:11-12<2593 2003 75 pac https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200375112593 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200375112593 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lyons G. World Wildlife Fund European Program, 17 The Avenues, Norwich NR2 3PH, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Pure and Applied Chemistry De Gruyter 75/11-12(2003-01-01), 2593-2604 0033-4545 75:11-12<2593 2003 75 pac CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter