The Undersigned SCIENTISTS FOR SCIENTIFIC EC REGULATION are in full agreement and support of the editorial entitled: “An Appeal to the European Commission on Endocrine Disruptor Criteria: Science is More Potent than Politics” and the appeal to The European Commission regarding its proposed regulation to establish criteria for identifying so-called “endocrine-disrupting chemicals,” which was submitted by C.J. Borgert on behalf the undersigned to the European Commission pursuant to its request for comments regarding the EU’s Plant Protection Products Regulation and Biocidal Products Regulation.


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Distinguished Research Fellow
ScitoVation
Research Triangle Park, N.C., USA
Herman Autrup, Ph.D., A.T.S.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Public Health
Institute of Environmental and Occupational Medicine
University of Aarhus
Aarhus, Denmark
Michael Aschner, Ph.D.
Endowed Chair in Neuroscience
Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, N.Y., USA
Stephen P. Baker, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology and Chair (retired)
College of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
University of Florida
Gainesville, Fla., USA
Sir Colin Berry, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.
Emeritus Professor of Pathology
Queen Mary University of London
London, UK
Ole J. Bjerrum, D.M.Sc.
Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology
Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Bas J. Blaauboer, Ph.D., E.R.T.
Professor Emeritus
Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences – Toxicology
Utrecht University
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Hermann M. Bolt, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Toxicology and Occupational Medicine
Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors
Technical University of Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany
Christopher J. Borgert, Ph.D.
President and Principal Scientist
Applied Pharmacology & Toxicology, Inc.
Research Assistant Scientist
Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Florida
Gainesville, Fla., USA
Jonathan W. Boyd, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
West Virginia University
Morgantown, W. Va., USA
João Lauro V. de Camargo, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology (retired)
State University of São Paulo (UNESP)
Botucatu Medical School
Botucatu SP, Brazil
Samuel M. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
College of Medicine
Department of Pathology and Microbiology
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Neb., USA
Edmond E. Creppy, Pharm.D., Ph.D., E.R.T.
Professor of Toxicology and Head
Department of Toxicology
University of Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
Gisela H. Degen, Ph.D.
Professor
Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors
Technical University of Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany
Wolfgang Dekant, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Toxicology
University of Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
Daniel R. Dietrich, Ph.D., A.T.S., E.R.T.
Professor of Toxicology
Head of Environmental Toxicology Research Group
University of Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany
Jay Goodman, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Mich., USA
Robert Golden, Ph.D.
President
ToxLogic LLC
Gaithersburg, Md., USA
Gio Batta Gori, D.Sc., M.P.H., A.T.S.
Editor-in-Chief
Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
Bethesda, Md., USA
Helmut Greim, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Toxicology
Technical University of Munich
Munich, Germany
Patrick D. Guiney, Ph.D., SETAC Fellow
President, World Council
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
Retired Toxicologist and Adjunct Professor
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisc., USA
Mark Hanson, Ph.D.
Associate Department Head and Associate Professor
Department of Environment and Geography
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Man., Canada
Jan G. Hengstler, Ph.D., M.D.
Head of Department of Toxicology/Systems Toxicology
Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors
Technical University of Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany
Michael E. Honeycutt, Ph.D.
Director, Toxicology Division
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Austin, Texas, USA
Magnus Ingelman-Sundberg, Ph.D., B.Sc.Med.
Professor of Molecular Toxicology
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden
Sam Kacew, Ph.D., A.T.S.
Associate Director of Toxicology
R. Samuel McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Norbert E. Kaminski, Ph.D.
Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Director of Center for Integrative Toxicology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Mich., USA
Curtis D. Klaassen, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S.
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Washington
Leawood, Kansas, USA
James E. Klaunig, Ph.D., A.T.S., I.A.T.P.
Professor of Environmental Health
Indiana University
Bloomington, Ind., USA
Corrado Lodovico Galli, Ph.D., E.R.T.
Expert, Italian Ministry of Health
Professor of Toxicology and Risk Assessment
Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences
University of Milan
Milan, Italy
Hans Marquardt, M.D.
Emeritus Professor of Clinical and Experimental Toxicology
University of Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
John C. Matthews, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology
University of Mississippi
University, Miss., USA
Lynn Scott McCarty, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
L.S. McCarty Scientific Research and Consulting
Newmarket, Ont., Canada
Angelo Moretto M.D., Ph.D., E.R.T., A.T.S.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
University of Milan
Milan, Italy
Gerhard Nohynek, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S., E.R.T.
Preclinical Consultant
Corvol-l'Orgueilleux, France
Thomas G. Osimitz, Ph.D., D.A.B.T.
European Registered Toxicologist
President and Principal Toxicologist
Science Strategies, LLC
Charlottesville, Va., USA
Olavi Pelkonen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Oulu
Oulu, Finland
Terry F. Quill, J.D., M.S.
Partner
Quill Law Group
Washington, D.C., USA
Tiina Santonen, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Expert
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Helsinki, Finland
Kai Savolainen, M.D., Ph.D.
Research Professor and Director
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Helsinki, Finland
Josef Schlatter, D.Sc.
Retired Toxicologist
Zürich, Switzerland
Dieter Schrenk, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Food Chemistry and Toxicology
Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern, Germany
Thomas Schupp, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Muenster University of Applied Science
Steinfurt, Germany
Ted W. Simon, Ph.D., D.A.B.T.
Ted Simon LLC
Toxicologist
United States Environmental Protection Agency-Retired
Winston, Ga., USA
Keith R. Solomon, Ph.D., A.T.S., SETAC Fellow
Professor Emeritus
Centre for Toxicology, School of Environmental Sciences
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ont., Canada
Jouko Tuomisto, M.D., Ph.D.
Science Author
National Institute for Health and Welfare
Helsinki, Finland
Glen Van Der Kraak, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Research
College of Biological Science
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ont., Canada
Marco Vighi, M.S.
Researcher of Aquatic Ecotoxicology and Ecological Risk Assessment
IMDEA Water Institute
Alcalá de Henares
Madrid, Spain
J. Chris Vos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Amsterdam Institute of Molecules, Medicines and Systems
Vrije University Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kendall B. Wallace, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., A.T.S.
Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Minnesota
Duluth, Minn., USA
Raphael J. Witorsch, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Biophysics
School of Medicine
Medical College of Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Va., USA
Hiroshi Yamazaki, Ph.D.
Professor and Dean of Graduate School
Showa Pharmaceutical University
Tokyo, Japan