Acknowledgments

This report is the result of a collaborative effort by members of the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition, a new nationwide effort to adopt smart federal policies that protect us from toxic chemicals. (www.saferchemicals.org).

The Health Case for Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act relies primarily on five peer-reviewed studies and reviews of the scientific literature that collectively reference more than 1,200 published papers and reports. We thank the authors of these papers for their seminal work:

  • R.W. Clapp, M.M. Jacobs, and E.L. Loechler “Environmental and Occupational Causes Of Cancer: New Evidence 2005–2007,” Reviews on Environmental Health, 23, no.1 (2008): 1–47.
  • Jill Stein, et al., Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging: With a Closer Look At Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease, ed. Nancy Myers (Boston: Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Science and Environmental Health Network, 2008).
  • Philippe Grandjean and Philip J. Landrigan, “Developmental Neurotoxicity of Industrial Chemicals,” Lancet, 368, no. 9553 (December 2006): 2167–78.
  • D. Andrew Crain, et al.,“Female Reproductive Disorders: the Roles of Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds and Developmental Timing,” Fertility and Sterility, 90, no. 4 (2008): 911–40.
  • Mark J. Mendell, “Indoor Residential Chemical Emissions as Risk Factors for Respiratory and Allergic Effects in Children: A Review,” Indoor Air, 17, no. 4 (2007): 259–77.

NOTE: When this report includes a statement that is not based on one of these review articles, the statement is separately cited.

Our sincere thanks to the following contributors and reviewers:

  • Caroline Baier-Anderson, PhD, Environmental Defense Fund
  • Charlotte Brody, RN, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Coalition
  • Richard Denison, PhD, Environmental Defense Fund
  • Susanne Frank, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Coalition
  • Ruth Hennig, John Merck Fund
  • Elizabeth Hitchcock, U.S. Public Interest Research Group
  • Molly Jacobs, MPH, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Christine James, MA, John Merck Fund
  • Sarah Janssen, MD, PhD, MPH, Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Margie Kelly, Safer States Coalition, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Coalition
  • Joyce Martin, JD, American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
  • Elise Miller, MEd, Collaborative on Health and the Environment
  • Daniel Rosenberg, JD, Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Kathleen Schuler, MPH, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  • Gina Solomon, MD, MPH, Natural Resources Defense Council
  • Maureen Swanson, MPA, Learning Disabilities Association of America
  • Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, Program on Reproductive Health and Environment, University of California, San Francisco