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5/7/08: An MP3 recording of the latest CHE Partnership Call Sick Plastic, Sick People? The Science and Policy of Bisphenol A is now available!


5/5/08: Breast cancer and chemical exposures: new documents from HEAL and CHEM Trust (translations in 6 languages)

4/15/08: Now available: State of the Evidence 2008: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment

2/20/08: CHE LDDI scientific consensus statement on environmental factors. 

1/25/08: New environmental health-themed issue of San Francisco Medicine, journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, is now available online. 
 

3/1/08: Two new chemicals policy reports from the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Lowell Center for Sustainable Production.

9/1/07: The BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields


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Health, Food and Farm Policy: the Farm Bill and Beyond

July 12, 2007

Background Information/Resources

A Fair Farm Bill For Public Health: A Series of Papers on the 2007 U.S. Farm Bill, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. (PDF Format)

Food Conscious: The New Food Crusade, Carol Ness, San Francisco Chronicle, July 20 2007. 

Nutrition and Food Production: A Role for Health Care Institutions, Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, San Francisco Medicine, Journal of the San Francisco Medical Society, April 2007.

Farming's Dirty Secrets: What's Gone Wrong With How We Produce Food, Steve Heilig, MPH, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, June 23 2002.

A Health Professional Sign On Letter For a Healthy Food Bill (PDF Format) 

A Food and Farm Bill for Health, Susan L. Roberts, JD, MS, RD and Fern Gale Estrow, MS, RD, CDN (PDF Format)

Make Farm Bill About Providing Healthful Food, David Wallinga and Robert Lawrence, The Des Moines Register, Opinion, July 18 2007.

  

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