Agencies Grapple With Tox21 Questions In Framing Obesity Research Plan

Correction Appended Federal agencies, including EPA, are struggling with how and whether to use new cellular-based, predictive toxicology methods in their efforts to design a research program intended to explore the impacts of environmental contaminants on the country's increasing population of those that are obese, have diabetes, or related metabolic disorders. During a Jan. 11-13 workshop held in Raleigh, NC, to launch a push by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to further research on the effects of...