EDEN: Endocrine disrupters: exploring novel endpoints, exposure, low-dose- and mixture-effects in humans, aquatic wildlife and laboratory animals

• Unité de recherche: PCRD EU
• Numéro de projet: 01.0376-2
• Titre du projet anglais: EDEN: Endocrine disrupters: exploring novel endpoints, exposure, low-dose- and mixture-effects in humans, aquatic wildlife and laboratory animals

Mots-clé (Anglais)

Environmental Protection; Life Sciences; Medicine; Health; Safety

Autre Numéro de projet (Anglais)

EU project number: 01QLK4-CT-2002-00603

Programme de recherche (Anglais)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.1.4 Environment and health

Description succincte (Anglais)

See abstract

Autres indications (Anglais)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Universität Bern
Institut fur Tierpathologie
Zentrum für Fisch und Wildtiermedizin

Résumé des résultats (Abstract) (Anglais)

In the EU, there are significant human and wildlife health problems that stem from 'endocrine disruption'. What is unresolved is whether human/wildlife exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) from the environment plays any causal role in these developmental disorders. The motivation of EDEN is to meet this challenge by addressing common problems in wildlife and human hazard assessment in one coherent approach. It will produce data about the occurrence of mixed exposures to EDC in humans and fish and develop new experimental models that allow more meaningful extrapolations from animals to humans. It will produce data about low-dose- and mixture effects of EDC that are directly relevant to hazard and risk assessment. It will provide new insights into indicators of reproductive health of European citizens and will help to produce the scientific basis for a coherent strategy for dealing with EDC in the EU.

Références bases de données (Anglais)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 01.0376-2