摘要：Many of the > 83,000 chemicals currently used in commerce pose potential toxic hazards to human health and the environment. Numerous policies and systems are in place to try to identify harmful chemicals that are already in use, but removing these problem chemicals once they are already in the marketplace can be difficult, time-consuming, and costly. In an ideal world, chemists would be able to identify problematic chemicals early in the design process—before they are released into the marketplace. This is a central goal of “green chemistry.” An article recently published in the U.K. Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal Green Chemistry (Schug et al. 2012) represents a major step toward realizing the green chemistry ideal. The authors, an esteemed group of green chemists, biologists, and toxicologists, introduce a Tiered Protocol for Endocrine Disruption (TiPED) that chemists can use to detect potentially problematic chemicals during the design process (TiPED 2012).
