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Open letter to the European commission: scientifically unfounded precaution drives European commission’s recommendations on EDC regulation, while defying common sense, well-established science, and risk assessment principles

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  1. This letter was provided by Prof. Daniel R. Dietrich. A similar text has been published in ALTEX. 30, 3/13, 381–385 and in Chemico Biological Interactions.

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  1. EDTA-VMG Non-Animal of the OECD, Faculty of Biology, University of Konstanz, Constance, Germany

    Daniel Dietrich

  2. ALTEX, Kuesnacht, Switzerland

    Sonja von Aulock

  3. Toxicology, Department of Toxicology, Hamburg University Medical School, Kortenredder 3, 22397, Hamburg, Germany

    H. W. J. Marquardt

  4. Division of Toxicology, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Bas J. Blaauboer

  5. Department of Toxicology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Wolfgang Dekant

  6. Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Katz Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    James Kehrer

  7. Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, IfADo, Dortmund, Germany

    Jan G. Hengstler

  8. John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Mãnoa, BioSciences 320-3, 651 Ilalo Street, Honolulu, HI, 96813, USA

    Abby C. Collier

  9. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, The Health Policy Center, 6704 Barr Road, Bethesda, MD, 20816, USA

    Gio Batta Gori

  10. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Olavi Pelkonen

  11. Toxins, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Florian Lang

  12. European Journal of Pharmacology, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Frans P. Nijkamp

  13. Toxicology in Vitro, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany

    Kerstin Stemmer

  14. Chemico Biological Interactions, In Vitro ADMET Laboratories LLC, Advanced Pharmaceutical Sciences, Inc., 15235 Shady Grove Road, Suite 303, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA

    Albert Li

  15. Human and Experimental Toxicology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland

    Kai Savolainen

  16. Human and Experimental Toxicology, Food and Chemical Toxicology, Vision and Strategy, Spherix Consulting and Harvard University, 298 South Main Street, Andover, MA, 01810, USA

    A. Wallace Hayes

  17. Toxicology Research, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Nigel Gooderham

  18. Toxicon, Strathclyde Institute for Drug Research (SIDR), Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS), University of Strathclyde, The John Arbuthnott Building, 27 Taylor Street, Glasgow, G4 0NR, UK

    Alan Harvey

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Dietrich, D., von Aulock, S., Marquardt, H.W.J. et al. Open letter to the European commission: scientifically unfounded precaution drives European commission’s recommendations on EDC regulation, while defying common sense, well-established science, and risk assessment principles. Arch Toxicol 87, 1739–1741 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-013-1117-2

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