Guest guest Posted August 16, 2010 Report Share Posted August 16, 2010 Autism Hearing On August 3, the Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Children’s Health held a hearing entitled, "State of Research on Potential Environmental Health Factors with Autism and Related Neurodevelopment Disorders." Scientists and researchers from the Environmental Protection Agency, National Institutes of Health, the MIND Institute at U.C. , and Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati, were among those to testify. During the hearing, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) announced that she is introducing legislation to ensure that federal agencies are coordinating their efforts on disease clusters as effectively as possible, and that the resources are there to help the people in areas that need them. This will include making sure communities that suspect they have a cluster of disease can call on the government to investigate and address their concerns. The bill will also require EPA to upgrade their data tracking systems to strengthen the federal government’s ability to investigate disease clusters. Earlier this year, Sen. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010, which would take an important step toward testing and identifying chemicals that could harm children before they come to market. The bill would reform and strengthen the way the federal government regulates toxic chemicals, by requiring the chemical industry to prove that their chemicals are safe to use. More information and the archived hearing are available http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing & Hearing_id=1ab3cf42-802a-23ad-4a3a-686da83bf6d0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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