Colbom, Theo

Colbom, Theo, Diane Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers (1996) Our Stolen Future Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival — A Scientific Detective Story, New York, Penguin Books. 

In 2009 a fmther 89 substances were added to the SIN List (Version 1.1), before in 2011 another 22 chemicals were added (Version 2.0) for fulfilling the REACH 57(f) criterion of equivalent concern as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The 2011 EDC additions were made in consultation with TEDX, the US endocrine-disruption research NGO founded by Professor Theo Colbom, and coincided with EU plans over 2011-2012 to develop accepted criteria for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals. 

A book titled Our Stolen Future appeared in 1996. The authors Theo Colbom, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers argued that some chemical substances dispersed into the environment have gotten into human bodies and disrupted the endocrine (hormonal) system of the humans (and other animals). They built their thesis based on a number of scattered data. 

Though EDCs can effect immunological responses, the most studied effects of EDCs are the reproductive and developmental ones. These, which include male and female reproductive disorders, trans-generational and developmental effects on the fetus in utero, and the developing child will be addressed further in the infertility and development chapters. The reader is referred to the epic work of Theo Colbom, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers, Our Stolen Future [15], to the aforanentioned WHO report [13] and to the literature [16,17] for review discussions of the subject. 

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