Teratology public affairs committee position paper: Iodine deficiency in pregnancy

Teratology public affairs committee position paper: iodine deficiency in pregnancy.

Iodine deficiency is an important nutritional deficiency, with more than 2 billion people worldwide estimated to be at risk. The developing fetus and young children are particularly at risk. During pregnancy and lactation, iodine requirements increase, whether in iodine-poor or iodine-sufficient countries, making the mother and the developing fetus vulnerable. The American Thyroid Association (...

Teratology public affairs committee position paper: Pregnancy labeling for prescription drugs: Ten years later.

September 12, 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of a public hearing that was hoped to be the death knell of the pregnancy labeling categories for pharmaceuticals, the A, B, C, D, X system of designations that was put in place by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1979 (US FDA, 1979). The replacement of the pregnancy labeling categories had been sought by the Public Affairs Committee of...

Teratology Society Public Affairs Committee position paper: developmental toxicity of endocrine disruptors to humans.

SUSAN BARLOW,1 ROBERT J. KAVLOCK,2 JOHN A. MOORE,3 SUSAN L. SCHANTZ,4 DANIEL M. SHEEHAN,5 DANA L. SHUEY,6 AND JOSEPH M. LARY7* 1Consultant Toxicologist, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 6RE United Kingdom 2Reproductive Toxicology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711 3Institute for Evaluating Health Risks, Washington, DC 20006 4Department of Vete...

Statement of the Public Affairs Committee of the Teratology Society on the importance of smoking cessation during pregnancy.

Statement of the Public Affairs Committee of the Teratology Society on the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Since the initial observations over 25 years ago that alcohol (ethanol) is a human teratogen (Jones et al., ’73; Jones and Smith, ’73), concerns regarding the prenatal effects of alcohol as a significant public health problem have been raised throughout the world. Much effort has gone into the delineation of a physical and neurobehavioral phenotype, numerous studies have focused on the birth pr...