The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines an environmental endocrine disruptor—the term the Agency uses for environmental estrogens—as "an exogenous agent that interferes with the synthesis, secretion, transport, binding, action, or elimination of natural hormones in the body that are responsible for the maintenance of homeostasis, reproduction, development, and/or behavior." Dr. Theo Colborn, a zoologist and senior scientist with the World Wildlife Fund, and the person most credited with raising national awareness of the issue, describes these chemicals as "hand-me-down poisons" that are passed from mothers to offspring and may be linked to a wide range of adverse effects, including low sperm counts, infertility, genital deformities, breast and prostate cancer, neurological disorders in children such as hyperactivity and attention deficits, and developmental and reproductive disorders in wildlife. Colborn discusses these effects in her 1996 book, Our Stolen Future—co-authored with Dianne Dumanoski and...