2019: Film “Dark Waters” raised public awareness of PFAS. Based on the book:
Robert Bilott, Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont. New York: Atria Books, 2019.
Report for the European Parliament
Endocrine Disruptors: from Scientific Evidence to Human Health Protection
CLARITY-BPA results published
The FDA published results without input from academics:
Camacho, L., Lewis, S. M., Vanlandingham, M. M., Olson, G. R., Davis, K. J., Patton, R. E., Twaddle, N. C., Doerge, D. R., Churchwell, M. I., Bryant, M. S., McLellen, F. M., Woodling, K. A., Felton, R. P., Maisha, M. P., Juliar, B. E., Gamboa da Costa, G., & Delclos, K. B. (2019). A two-year toxicology study of bisphenol A (BPA) in Sprague-Dawley rats: CLARITY-BPA core study results. Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association, 132, 110728.
Leading to academics publishing their own results:
Heindel, J. J., Belcher, S., Flaws, J. A., Prins, G. S., Ho, S. M., Mao, J., Patisaul, H. B., Ricke, W., Rosenfeld, C. S., Soto, A. M., Vom Saal, F. S., & Zoeller, R. T. (2020). Data integration, analysis, and interpretation of eight academic CLARITY-BPA studies. Reproductive toxicology (Elmsford, N.Y.), 98, 29–60.
Vandenberg, L. N., Hunt, P. A., & Gore, A. C. (2019). Endocrine disruptors and the future of toxicology testing – lessons from CLARITY-BPA. Nature reviews. Endocrinology, 15(6), 366–374.
Vom Saal F. S. (2019). Flaws in design, execution and interpretation limit CLARITY-BPA’s value for risk assessments of bisphenol A. Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology, 125 Suppl 3, 32–43.
Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS) founded by Jerry Heindel.