Were exposures directly measured or inferred from environmental contamination levels?
Often, researchers observing some abnormal feature among individuals in a population will also measure environmental contaminants in the habitat or occasionally in sampled tissues from a limited number of individuals. However, endocrine disruption leading to altered sexual development is likely to have taken place during embryonic development (13). Thus, environmental residues and tissue concentrations in juveniles and adults are likely poor predictors of the effects of hormone mimics. Return to Table of Contents for the April 2001 issue Return to Agrichemical and Environmental News Index Return to PICOL (Pesticide Information Center On-Line) Home Page First Annual Precision Forestry Symposium The First International Precision Forestry Symposium will be held on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle June 17 through 19, 2001. The University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources, in collaboration with the College of Engineering, created the Precision Forestry Coopera
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