HEEDS News, April 2023

The perils of PVC plastic pipes
Apr. 27 (tonight!)
Info about a new report explaining why we shouldn't replace lead pipes with PVC pipes. Featuring Judith Enck, Mike Schade, and Dr. Shanna Swan.

Will the Global Plastics Treaty address toxic chemicals?

Webinar May 4.
Featuring Dr. Philip Landrigan and Vito Buonsante. Sponsored by the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE).

Reducing breast cancer risk by eliminating parabens and phthalates

Webinar May 17.
Featuring Dr. William Goodson. Sponsored by the EDC Strategies Partnership.

Superfund Research Program (SRP) progress in research webinar series
Apr. 28 - May 19
A series of four webinars covering emergencies, heavy metals, environmental justice, and lifelong exposures.

Environmental chemicals and children's health
May 6
CME course sponsored by NYU Langone Health. In person and livestreamed.

Environmental Health Sciences Early Investigator 2023 Career Development Workshop: Topics on Building and Maintaining Collaborative Networks, Difficult Conversations and Conflict Resolution
May 9
In person and livestreamed.
Sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Public Health Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center (M-LEEaD).

Strategies for responsibly reporting back environmental health and non-genomic research results
Webinar May 10
Learn about a new funding opportunity on this topic from NIH.

Plastic health summit 2023
May 11
Brussels, Belgium

Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM)
Public forum May 18-19
In person and remote. ICCVAM member agencies will describe their activities to advance new approaches to safety testing of chemicals and to reduce the amount of testing required.

2023 Nursing summit on environmental health
May 22-23
Preconference event before CleanMed 2023. Sponsored by the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments.

Chemistry and food: Safety, authenticity, and other challenges
June 2
Meeting hosted by the National Academies Chemical Sciences Roundtable.

Endo 2023
June 15-18
Chicago, Illinois
The Endocrine Society's annual meeting.

Endocrine disrupting chemicals and women's health virtual symposium
July 18-19
Sponsored by the Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health. Abstracts due May 19.

International Society of Exposure Science Annual meeting
Aug 27-31
Chicago, IL

Fluoros 2023
Aug. 31- Sept. 1
Idstein, Germany
An international symposium on PFAS. There is also a workshop on Aug. 30.

Report: The Perils of PVC Plastic Pipes
Replacing lead drinking water pipes with PVC pipes may not be such a good idea. Using a safe replacement material is recommended by this report from Beyond Plastics, Environmental Health Sciences, and the Plastic Pollution Coalition.

Report: PVC Poison Plastic

An investigation in the largest vinyl chloride polluters in the U.S. by Toxic-Free Future. See related article, Beyond East Palestine, report finds widespread toxic vinyl chloride pollution, by Dana Drugmand in The New Lede.

EPA's Chemical Data Reporting National Review
The first-ever web-based interactive report of chemicals manufactured in the U.S. or imported in 2020.

Pacific Northwest Center for Translational Environmental Health Research (PNW-CTEHR) Discovery Index
A searchable database to facilitate connections between researchers and others on environmental health topics.

Research with Activities Related to Diversity (ReWARD) Program
Provides support for the health-related research of scientists who are making a significant contribution to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) and who have no current NIH research project grant funding.

Congratulations to Dr. Almudena Veiga-Lopez
For being awarded the 2023 Stephen B. Harris Mid-Career Scientist Award from the Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology!

Texas to New Jersey: Tracking the toxic chemicals in the Ohio train inferno
By Hiroko Tabuchi, in the New York Times.

Our way of life is poisoning us
By Mark O'Connell, in the New York Times.

Opinion: Two flaws in how the U.S. EPA wants to assess hazardous chemical groups
By Patrick Masseo, in Environmental Health News.

Facing new attempts to regulate toxic substances, the chemical industry’s lobbying expenses skyrocketed in 2022
in Open Secrets.

Cumulative risk evaluation of phthalates under TSCA

Payne-Sturges D, De Saram S, Cory-Slechta DA. Environ Sci Technol. 2023 Apr 25;57(16):6403-6414.

Weight loss relapse associated with exposure to perfluoroalkylate substances
Grandjean P, Meddis A, Nielsen F, Sjödin A, Hjorth MF, Astrup A, Budtz-Jørgensen E. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2023 Apr 17.
Also see related article in Environmental Health News, PFAS has more effect than type of diet on weight gain: Study.

70 analyte PFAS test method highlights need for expanded testing of PFAS in drinking water
Pelch KE, McKnight T, Reade A. Sci Total Environ. 2023 Mar 22:162978.

Evaluating adverse effects of environmental agents in food: a brief critique of the US FDA's criteria.
Vandenberg LN, Zoeller RT, Prins GS, Trasande L. Environ Health. 2023 Apr 21;22(1):38.

ReadEDTest: A tool to assess the readiness of in vitro test methods under development for identifying endocrine disruptors
Crouzet T, Grignard E, Brion F, Blanc EB, Podechard N, Langouet S, Alonso-Magdalena P, Hubert P, Kim MJ, Audouze K. Environ Int. 2023 Mar 31;174:107910.

Use of chemical hair straighteners and fecundability in a North American preconception cohort.
Wise LA, Wang TR, Ncube CN, Lovett SM, Abrams J, Boynton-Jarrett R, Koenig MR, Geller RJ, Wesselink AK, Coleman CM, Hatch EE, James-Todd T. Am J Epidemiol. 2023 Mar 31:kwad079.

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