Learning from Sisyphus: Time to Rethink Our Current, Ineffective Strategy on Neurodevelopmental Environmental Toxicants

Overview

Journal Environ Health

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 2020 Mar 13

PMID 32160895

Citations 1

Authors

Larissa Takser

Darel John Hunting

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Abstract

Background: The overwhelming number of potentially toxic chemicals in consumer products and in our daily environment makes it unrealistic to carry out in-depth analyses of each product with the objective of banning and eliminating toxic chemicals from our environment.

Objectives: To present the challenges that environmental toxicology and epidemiology are currently facing in the context of ubiquitous chemical pollution.

Discussion: We propose a realistic and pragmatic approach to this Herculean problem.

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