Enhancing Credibility of Chemical Safety Studies: No Consensus
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Environmental Health Perspectives • volume 119 | number 12 | December 2011 A 507 of the evidence, and unceasing regulatory and public vigilance about the influence of funding source on the science that informs environmental health policy. Subsequent to submitting this letter, the University of California, San Francisco, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (T.W. and P.S.) received a grant from the Johnson Family Foundation (S.V.) in support of a meeting to advance work on developing systema tic and transparent methods to vet the science linking the environment and health. The other author declares she has no actual or potential competing financial interests.
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