Product Biomonitoring and Responsible Reporting

Product Biomonitoring and Responsible Reporting

In this issue of Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), Schecter et al. (2011) report levels of poly brominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants in butter purchased from retail stores. Although the investigators found prevalent levels of PBDEs in butter, they report that one sample had inordinately high levels of octa-, nona-, and deca-BDE con-geners, likely from its highly contaminated...

Environmentally Responsible Product Development

Environmentally responsible product development (ERPD), also known as environmentally benign manufacturing, considers both environmental impacts and economic objectives during the numerous and diverse activities of product development and manufacturing. There are many ways to minimize environmental impacts. Clearly, however, the greatest opportunity for ERPD occurs during the product design pha...

Responsible Reporting: Neuroimaging News in the Age of Responsible Research and Innovation

Besides offering opportunities in both clinical and non-clinical domains, the application of novel neuroimaging technologies raises pressing dilemmas. 'Responsible Research and Innovation' (RRI) aims to stimulate research and innovation activities that take ethical and social considerations into account from the outset. We previously identified that Dutch neuroscientists interpret "responsible ...

Constructionist Learning for Environmentally Responsible Product Design

Wayne State University, Penn State University, and Oregon State University are developing a distributed cyberlearning environment to facilitate the consideration of different human controlled/initiated impacts on the natural environment through team-based and personalized design activities. This interactive learning environment, Constructionism in Learning: Sustainable Life Cycle Engineering (C...

Responsible and deglamourized media reporting [2015] SCOPING QUESTION: Is responsible and deglamourized media reporting effective in reducing deaths from suicide, suicide attempts and acts of self-harm?