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WHAT'S NEW
Recently Released: Proceedings from the 2007 UCSF-CHE Fertility Summit (published in the journal of Fertility and Sterility) Join CHE Alaska on May 28 for a teleconference on "The Global Transport of Persistent Chemicals to the Arctic" 5/9/08: CHE featured in AARP: "The Body Toxic" 5/9/08: CHE Partner Dr. Philip Landrigan interview in Discover: "How Much Do Chemicals Affect Our Health?"
4/15/08: Now available: State of the Evidence 2008: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment 2/20/08: CHE LDDI scientific consensus statement on environmental factors. 1/25/08: New environmental health-themed issue of San Francisco Medicine, journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, is now available online. 3/1/08: Two new chemicals policy reports from the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. 9/1/07: The BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields
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Health, Food and Farm Policy: The Farm Bill and BeyondJuly 12, 2007On this CHE Policy Education Call, we focused on the evidence linking federal farm and food policies with chronic disease, especially including childhood obesity and other diet-related disease, but also environmentally-related disease to which agricultural practices contribute. The 2007 reauthorization of the omnibus Farm Bill has made these links salient. Other factors, however, also contribute: ongoing budget cuts in federal food safety inspection and other programs; recent Institute of Medicine reports on school lunch programs, and media reports on the use of melamine and arsenic in the food supply. Speakers highlighted the scientific evidence on these links, as well as the relevance of the precautionary principle in issues involving the food system and children's diets. This teleconference was recorded for documentation purposes. Call Moderator: Steve Heilig, MPH, Director of Public Health and Education for CHE and the San Francisco Medical Society Science Update: Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, Science Director, Science and Environmental Health Network Featured Presentations:
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