{"id":387,"date":"2010-01-21T11:29:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T16:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/nanotechnology\/?p=387"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:00:51","slug":"connecting-the-dots-new-report-makes-the-health-case-for-tsca-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2010\/01\/21\/connecting-the-dots-new-report-makes-the-health-case-for-tsca-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the dots: New report makes the health case for TSCA reform"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Safer Chemicals Healthy Families<\/a><\/em> campaign, of which EDF is a founding member, is releasing an important report today:\u00a0 “The Health Case for Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act<\/a>.”\u00a0 This report connects the growing number of dots linking chemical exposures to a number of serious chronic diseases that are rising in incidence.\u00a0 These include certain types of cancer, including childhood cancers; learning and developmental disabilities; Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease; reproductive health and fertility problems\u00a0in both women and men; and asthma.<\/p>\n

The report provides a succinct review of\u00a0the state of the science in each of these areas, and argues that the U.S. has an opportunity to help ameliorate both the rise in these chronic diseases and their associated health care costs — by enacting comprehensive reform of our nation’s policies addressing the safety of chemicals.<\/p>\n

Check out the report<\/a> and news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. The Safer Chemicals Healthy Families campaign, of which EDF is a founding member, is releasing an important report today:\u00a0 “The Health Case for Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act.”\u00a0 This report connects the growing number of dots linking chemical exposures to a number of serious chronic diseases that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,114108],"tags":[8008,39148,5020],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-tsca","tag-asthma","tag-carcinogens","tag-safer-chemicals-healthy-families"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t