<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">An important article, IMO.</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Is it reasonable to feel cautiously hopeful?</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Racheli.</font><br><div><div><br></div><div><div style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); line-height: 25px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); line-height: 25px; "><a href="http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.119-a484">http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.119-a484</a></div><h1 xpathlocation="noSelect" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.1em; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia" size="5">Are We on the Same Page? Action Agenda of the National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures</font></h1><form action="http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.119-a484" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); line-height: 25px; "></form><div class="horizontalTabs" xpathlocation="noSelect" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 15px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: 642px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); line-height: 25px; "><ul id="tabsContainer" style="padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 10px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px !important; float: left; clear: none; line-height: normal; background-image: url(http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/images/tab_bg.gif); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: 636px; position: static; z-index: auto; background-position: 50% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; "><li id="comments" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; list-style-type: none; background-image: url(http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/images/tab_left.gif); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; cursor: pointer; float: left; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "></li></ul></div><div id="articleMenu" xpathlocation="noSelect" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; float: right; width: 200px; margin-top: 18px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; padding-bottom: 15px; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(210, 247, 255); zoom: 1; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); line-height: 25px; background-position: 0% 100%; "></div><p xmlns:d="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:aml="http://topazproject.org/aml/" class="authors" xpathlocation="noSelect" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); line-height: 25px; ">Valerie J. Brown</p><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); ">Valerie J. Brown, based in Oregon, has written for <i>EHP</i> since 1996. In 2009 she won a Society of Environmental Journalists’ Outstanding Explanatory Reporting award for her writing on epigenetics.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); "><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; ">"The first principle of public health is primary prevention—that is, avoiding a harmful exposure or injury altogether rather than treating resulting problems afterward. This is a variant of the precautionary principle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; "><a href="http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1289%2Fehp.119-a484#r7" style="color: rgb(54, 96, 138); text-decoration: underline; "><sup>7</sup></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; "> and dovetails with green chemistry and the substitution of alternative chemicals in manufacturing and consumer goods, both of which the Action Agenda endorses."</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25px; ">"Whether or not laws change in the short term, the intent of the National Conversation is resonating throughout the community of interests engaged with chemicals and health and is neatly summarized in the Action Agenda as follows: “Embedded in each recommendation is the fundamental call to make primary prevention the cornerstone of every decision relevant to chemicals and public health so that we can all share in a just and healthy future.”</span></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>