“One thing that I noticed while I was at EPA is that every single one of these chemicals had their own personal lobbyist,” said UCSF professor and former EPA scientist and policy advisory Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH as she opened the first UCSF Symposium to Evaluate and Counter Harmful Industry Impacts on Health last month. … Continue reading Researching and countering an industrial disease epidemic
Research is essential. But the research we hear about does not always reveal the truth. Why? Because internal industry documents show that numerous industries knew and hid the harms of their products – from tobacco to toxic chemicals – for decades. Not only that, industry also manufactures science and sways public policy to favour their … Continue reading Safeguarding health from industry influence
UC San Francisco (UCSF) today announced that thousands of previously internal industry documents relating to talc and asbestos are now freely available for public review and research in UCSF’s Industry Documents Library (IDL). The documents were made public through litigation against Johnson & Johnson for failing to warn consumers that its talc products, particularly its … Continue reading Talc “baby powder” documents at UCSF Library
Dr. Nicholas Chartres wrote the following response to media coverage on ultra-processed foods. What if I said that if you are eating a diet of high or ultra-processed food from packets, filled with chemicals, you have a significantly higher risk of dying younger from heart disease or cancer? Pretty scary, huh? Well, in the USA, … Continue reading Highly processed foods: recipe for disease?
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