The NTP Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction will look at
possible reproductive risks to plastics workers and consumers from seven
phthalates found widely in consumer products and the environment.
Check it out at http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/news/plastis.htm
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From: ted schettler
To: iatp-hcwh@igc.org
Subject: ALL: Fw: New Press Release on the Web - CERHR Panel to Look at
Phthalates
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 10:28AM
This is worth checking out. Notice how the question is framed (according to
the press release) - they will ask whether these phthalates might be
contributing to infertility and major birth defects. It will be interesting
to see how they deal with this. No one would argue that these are not
"adverse" outcomes. But there is a substantial difference between
identifying alterations in testicular or ovarian development and concluding
that those alterations are linked to infertility or "major" birth defects.
If this is not done right, there will be a real temptation to exonerate
chemicals which alter developmental endpoints if those alterations are not
then further linked to human infertility and "major" birth defects by this
panel (headed by Mike Shelby of NTP).
Ted Schettler
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>> Subject: New Press Release on the Web - CERHR Panel to Look at
>> Phthalates
>>
>> The NTP Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction will
look
>> at possible reproductive risks to plastics workers and consumers from
>> seven phthalates found widely in consumer products and the environment.
>> Check it out at http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/news/plastis.htm
>>
>> N. Louise Rozier
>> Public Affairs Specialist
>> National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
>> Office of Communications & Public Liaison
>> P. O. Box 12233 (EC-12)
>> Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
>> http://www.niehs.nih.gov
>> Phone: 919/541-1993
>> Fax: 919/541-2242
>>
>>
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