A large coalition of prominent U.S. scientists, children’s health advocates, physicians and other health professionals has issued an urgent “call to action” to protect children from the damaging neurological and other effects of toxic chemicals.
The group specifically calls on government agencies and businesses to take immediate steps to reassess the risks to human health from chemical exposures.
“The current system in the United States for evaluating scientific evidence and making health-based decisions about environmental chemicals is fundamentally broken,” the experts write in a consensus statement published last week in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
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