抄録
This review deals with the problem on “Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals”, which has recently been argued as one of serious matters on the effect to human being as well as to environment. Dr. Theo Colborn and other co-authors discussed extensively on these substances as endocrine disruptors or endocrine disrupting chemicals by their monograph “Our Stolen Future”. In Japan, however, these terms are erroneously translated as “(So-called) Environmental Hormones” in the author's opinion. Thus, the author discusses the terminology in science first, and then, to manufacture useful materials and products tolerant to environment. As a typical example, the manufacture and the use of pesticides and the effect to agricultural production and environment are described perspectively.
