The Environment Agency will request roughly 3.13 billion yen in outlays in the fiscal 2000 budget to fight endocrine disrupters — nearly double its allowances for the current fiscal year, agency officials said Wednesday.
The money will help fund such projects as studies to find the amount of endocrine disrupters in chemical substances to decide whether they should be put on the government’s list of regulated substances.
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