The Faroes Statement: Human Health Effects of Developmental Exposure to Chemicals in Our Environment

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Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology

Volume 102 Issue 2, Pages 73 - 75

Published Online: 30 Jul 2007

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The Faroes Statement: Human Health Effects of Developmental Exposure to Chemicals in Our Environment

Philippe Grandjean ^1,2 , David Bellinger ² , Åke Bergman ³ , Sylvaine Cordier ⁴ , George Davey-Smith ⁵ , Brenda Eskenazi ⁶ , David Gee ⁷ , Kimberly Gray ⁸ , Mark Hanson ⁹ , Peter van den Hazel ¹⁰ , Jerrold J. Heindel ⁸ , Birger Heinzow ¹¹ , Irva Hertz-Picciotto ¹² , Howard Hu ¹³ , Terry T-K Huang ¹⁴ , Tina Kold Jensen ¹ , Philip J. Landrigan ¹⁵ , I. Caroline McMillen ¹⁶ , Katsuyuki Murata ¹⁷ , Beate Ritz ¹⁸ , Greet Schoeters ¹⁹ , Niels Erik Skakkebæk ²⁰ , Staffan Skerfving ²¹ and Pal Weihe ²²

¹ Department of Environmental Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; ² Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; ³ Department of Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; ⁴ Inserm U625, Campus de Beaulieu, Université de Rennes I, Rennes, France; ⁵ University of Bristol, Department of Social Medicine, Bristol, UK; ⁶ School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; ⁷ European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark; ⁸ National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health/Department of Health and Human Services, Durham, NC, USA; ⁹ University of Southampton, Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton, UK; ¹⁰ Public Health Services Gelderland Midden, Arnhem, the Netherlands; ¹¹ State Agency for Health and Occupational Safety of Land Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany; ¹² Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA; ¹³ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; ¹⁴ National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health/Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA; ¹⁵ Department of Community & Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; ¹⁶ Sansom Research Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; ¹⁷ Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan; ¹⁸ Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA; ¹⁹ Flemish Institute of Technological Research, Mol, Belgium; ²⁰ Department of Growth and Reproduction, National University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; ²¹ Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; and ²² Department of Occupational Medicine and Public Health, The Faroese Hospital System, Tórshavn, The Faroe Islands

Author for correspondence: Philippe Grandjean, Department of Environmental Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Winsloewsparken 17, 5000 Odense C, Denmark; Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Landmark 3E-110, 401 Park Drive, Boston, MA 02115, USA (fax +1 617 384-8994, e-mail pgrand@hsph.harvard.edu).