To successfully curb the threat of endocrine disrupting chemicals, an independent and global effort is needed and is expected to be initiated early next year, according to award-winning scientist Theo Colborn.
Colborn first became aware of the developmental effects of synthetic chemicals on wildlife and people in the late 1980s and introduced the idea to the world in the jointly authored 1996 book "Our Stolen Future."
The work spurred a fundamental rethinking of synthetic chemicals and their threat to wildlife and mankind. The book's waves continue to ripple through governments, industries and societies as they strive to come to grips with so-called environmental hormones.