Image courtesy of Philippe Grandjean.
2007 First Prenatal Programming and Toxicity (PPTox) conference in the Faroe Islands, organized by Dr. Philippe Grandjean. There were six PPTox meetings, with the final one in 2018.
Grandjean, P., Bellinger, D., Bergman, A., Cordier, S., Davey-Smith, G., Eskenazi, B., Gee, D., Gray, K., Hanson, M., van den Hazel, P., Heindel, J. J., Heinzow, B., Hertz-Picciotto, I., Hu, H., Huang, T. T., Jensen, T. K., Landrigan, P. J., McMillen, I. C., Murata, K., Ritz, B., … Weihe, P. (2008). The Faroes statement: human health effects of developmental exposure to chemicals in our environment. Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology, 102(2), 73–75.
Europe’s REACH law (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) went into effect. Under REACH, endocrine disruptors can be identified as substances of very high concern alongside chemicals known to cause cancer, mutations, and toxicity to reproduction.
Environmental Challenges to Reproductive Health and Fertility Summit organized by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) and UCSF. Over 400 leading scientists, physicians, nurses, patient, and community group representatives, government agency officials, and others came together for three intensive days. Led to the creation of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) at UCSF.