Question of the Day #1213

What’s More Hazardous – Endocrine Disruptors or the EU’s Proposed Criteria?

From the headline of this article at the Center for International Environmental Law.

  上記の文で、endocrine disruptorの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "endocrine disruptor" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

《an ～》内分泌かく乱物質◆ホルモンの働きを妨げたり、ホルモンのバランスを崩したりする化学物質。◆【略】ED

とありますが、もっと簡単にいうと「環境ホルモン」です。
実際、英辞郎に環境ホルモンを入力するとendocrine disruptorの正式名称てあるendocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC)が掲載されています。

 

Answer

According to The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences:

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are natural or human-made chemicals that may mimic, block, or interfere with the body’s hormones, which are part of the endocrine system. These chemicals are associated with a wide array of health issues.

 

Examples

1. The term ‘endocrine disruptor’ first appeared in scientific literature in 1992.
2. In 1996, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) convened a panel called the Endocrine Disruptors Screening and Testing Advisory Committee (EDSTAC) to make recommendations to EPA concerning endocrine disruptors, with focuses on estrogenic, androgenic, and thyroid hormone systems.
3. “A potential endocrine disrupter is a substance that possesses properties that might be expected to lead to endocrine disruption in an intact organism.”
4. Previously, the study of endocrine disruptors was primarily focused on disruptions by environmental contaminants.
5. As the term endocrine disruptor is used now, potential endocrine disruptors are substances that affect the synthesis, secretion, transport, binding, action, inactivation, metabolism, or elimination of natural hormones in the body.

   

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