April 23, 2018. Many of the synthetic playground materials being used contain carcinogens, and when children are exposed to those carcinogens day after day, week after week, and year after year, they increase the chances of our children developing cancer, either now or as they get older. That should be adequate reason to not install them in Montgomery County.
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Public Meeting for Patient-Focused Drug Development on Opioid Use Disorder
April 17, 2018. Patients’ perspectives on how opioid use disorder is affecting their health, well-being, and daily lives will help the FDA and drug companies focus on studying outcomes that are most important and clinically relevant for patients.
Read More »Coalition Letter Opposing Wendy Vitter
April 16, 2018. To merit confirmation, judges must exhibit an ability to appropriately weigh and contextualize scientific evidence when matters involving science are before them. Vitter’s misrepresentations
of scientific evidence call into question her ability to do so appropriately. We therefore urge you to vote no on the confirmation of Wendy Vitter to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Letter to Montgomery County Council and Board of Education Members on Installing Artificial Turf Fields and Rubber Playgrounds
April 16, 2018. Synthetic rubber play surfaces are now being proposed for MCPS outdoor play spaces. These “poured in place” and other types of rubber playground surfaces have many of the same risks as tire crumb and other rubber infill that the County Council realized were too dangerous to use in 2015.
Read More »Comments by Diana Zuckerman, Ph.D. on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Agenda and Priorities for FY2019-20
April 11, 2018. Endocrine disruptors and chemicals in common consumer products that do not stay bound to those products get into the air and dust and thus into our bodies. These chemicals tend to pose greater risks to fetuses and children, and there are large gaps in our knowledge about the chemicals in the products on the market.
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