May 30 sees this year’s Annual Meeting of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center – a chance to hear about some of the activities of the center and (more importantly) provide us with your thoughts and insights into where we should be going in the future. The meeting is free and open to anyone, [...]
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I am very pleased to announce that the University of Michigan Risk Science Center has just been joined by Tracy Swinburn as its new Managing Director. Tracy has a background as an economic analyst, and will be working closely on building up the center’s strategic partnerships with stakeholders, as well as developing and contributing directly [...]
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Cross posted from 2020 Science Robin Erb has a good piece on cosmetics and safe ingredients in the Detroit Free Press this week – it tackles the very limited regulation over what goes into cosmetics, but balances this with a useful perspective on consumer choice and how this in turn can drive business decisions on [...]
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You’ll have realized from Rick Neitzel’s post earlier this week that he has abandoned the delights of Ann Arbor this summer for those of Sweden (we’re just hoping we get him back before he gets a taste for the good life over there!). Totally coincidentally as it turns out, he was the vanguard of a [...]
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I‘ve been following the Lean Finely Textured Beef (aka Pink Slime) story with interest for a few days now, and have been struck by how tough it is to dig up hard facts on what the basis of the concerns are here – beyond an instinctive distaste over finding out what goes into today’s processed [...]
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Cross posted from 2020 Science The US National Academy of Science today published its long-awaited Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials. I won’t comment extensively on the report as I was a member of the committee that wrote it. But I did want to highlight a number of aspects of [...]
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Cross-posted from the Scientific American Incubator blog: Studying for a Masters degree in Public Health prepares you for many things. But it doesn’t necessarily give you hands-on experience of how to take complex information and translate it into something others can understand and use. Yet as an increasing array of public health issues hit the [...]
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On December 28, the US Food and Drug Administration learned that a juice company had detected very low levels of the pesticide carbendazim in some of its products – specifically orange juice concentrate – and those of its competitors. While both FDA and the US Environmental Protection Agency have stressed that the reported levels do [...]
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The World Economic Forum Global Risks Report is one of the most authoritative annual assessments of emerging issues surrounding risk currently produced. Now in its seventh edition, the 2012 report launched today draws on over 460 experts* from industry, government, academia and civil society to provide insight into 50 global risks across five categories, within [...]
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Each year the University of Michigan Risk Science Center awards a small number of fellowships to support research students in their research over the summer. This year the standard of the applications was exceptionally high – the highest I’ve seen. It was exciting to see such a high caliber of risk-related research amongst School of [...]
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In a little over a week, ten of my University of Michigan Masters of Public Health students will embark on an intensive science blogging course – and they need your help! Every week for ten weeks, each student will take a recent scientific publication or emerging area of scientific interest, and write a public blog [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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Flame retardants in furniture foam – weighing the evidence
by Andrew Maynard on May 10, 2012
The Chicago Tribune launched a hard hitting investigative series this week on the downsides of flame retardant chemicals. Opening with the line “The average American baby is born with 10 fingers, 10 toes and the highest recorded levels of flame retardants among infants in the world”, the series paints a picture of corporate greed, misinformation [...]
Tagged as: Babrauskas, Chicago Tribune, Flame Retardant, pentabromodiphenyl ether, pentaDBE
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