December 7, 2012

International Collaboration of Green Scientists, Proposes Safety Testing System for Development of New Chemicals




International Collaboration of Green Scientists, Including Carnegie Mellon’s Terry Collins, Proposes Safety Testing System for Development of New Chemicals

Process Can Help To Ensure That Consumer Products Are Free of Harmful Endocrine Disruptors

A group of scientists from North America and Europe, including Carnegie Mellon University’s Terry Collins, has developed a five-tiered testing system that manufacturers can use to ensure that the chemicals and consumer products they produce are free of harmful endocrine disrupting chemicals like BPA or DDT. Their study, “Designing Endocrine Disruption Out of the Next Generation of Chemicals,” will be published in the January 2013 issue of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Green Chemistry, and is currently available online.