Please send a copy to Minister Burke, to let him know that this must also happen in Australia.
Dr Alison Bleaney
Representative Jim Moran and Senator John Kerry need your support!
On December 3, 2009, Representative Jim Moran and Senator John Kerry introduced The Endocrine Disruption Prevention Act of 2009 to authorize an ambitious research program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). But keep in mind that the bill is not passed yet and they need many more cosponsors in order to get the bill passed.
According to Senator Kerry, “We need facts driven by science, not politics, ideology, or powerful interests, when it comes to understanding the risks associated with chemicals – especially where there’s real concern about harmful developmental disorders in children. The better we understand these chemicals, the better equipped we’ll be to protect kids and the public.”
This research program will build upon the results of pioneering extra-mural and intramural research that NIEHS has already been carrying out for decades about endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on campuses across the country.
The goal of the program is to develop reliable and reproducible methods to identify chemicals that can disrupt the human endocrine system. This bill will facilitate the development of comprehensive multi-system assays to identify EDCs. It will take a disease based perspective, for example, and look at the relationship between EDCs and diabetes, obesity, behavioral and reproductive disorders, and some cancers, to mention a few.
This program will draw on the breadth and depth of scientific expertise at NIEHS to:
enhance the EPA’s Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program,
contribute to efforts to reform and strengthen the Toxic Substances Control Act, and
provide the evidence needed for regulatory agencies to accomplish their mission of protecting public health.
You can help Representative Moran and Senator Kerry get the bill passed by going to www.endocrinedisruption.com/endocrine.edlaw.php for a copy of the bill and a fact sheet. Tell your members of Congress to cosponsor the bill, or add your organization’s name to the growing list of NGOs, scientists, and medical and public health professionals who support this effort (just click on ‘How you can help’ on the website).
Thank you,
TEDX, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange
Theo Colborn, President
Carol Kwiatkowski, Executive Director
Dr Alison Bleaney
