For these compounds, the most sensitive toxic endpoint is usually the destruction of red blood cells. However, Rosica's carefully limited language may have created a misimpression of its own. Most glycol ethers are excluded by this careful description. In fact, most of the ethylene glycol ether derivatives tested do share a common toxicological profile.
Clear terminology is always desirable.
However, as a practical matter, most ethylene glycol ethers are teratogens and testicular toxins. Clearly, many of them are not. Nagano K, Nakayama E, Oobayashi H, Nishizawa T, Okuda H, Yamazaki K. Experimental studies on toxicity of ethylene glycol alkyl ethers in Japan. Schuler RL, Hardin BD, Niemeier RW, Booth G, Hazelden K, Piccirillo V, Smith K. Results of testing fifteen glycol ethers in a short-term in vivo reproductive toxicity assay. Relative potency of four ethylene glycol ethers for induction of paw malformations in the CD-1 mouse.