Birnbaum Urges Strict Limits On Plastic Chemicals Over Developmental Risks

Former National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) director Linda Birnbaum used a recent webinar to call for EPA and other authorities to ban “intentionally added” micro- and nanoplastics in many consumer products and broadly phase out many chemicals used to make plastics that she said are known to affect brain development in children. Birnbaum was one of three speakers on an Aug. 6 webinar hosted by the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE) titled “Protecting Children’s Developing Brains: Hazards...