A number of pesticides are suspected or proved to act as endocrine disruptor compounds (EDCs). In the present survey of the literature, we try to define the main issues to be considered to classify individual pesticides as EDC or not.
Keywords: Endocrine Disruptor; Hazard; Mechanism; Nuclear receptor; Pesticide; Risk.
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