IEER | Healthy from the Start: Campaign to Include Women, Children, and Future Generations in Environmental Health Standards

The immediate goal of the Healthy from the Start campaign is to shift the focus of radiation exposure standards from "Reference Man" to those most at risk. The longer term goal is to get all exposure standards (for both radiation and non-radioative toxic chemicals) to protect the most vulnerable among us. The campaign steering committee consists of representatives from the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, BE SAFE, Citizen's Information Network, Faithful Security, Making Our Milk Safe, Mike Thorne and Associates (scientific consulting), People for Children's Health & Environmental Justice, and Physicians for Social Responsibility. For more information about the campaign see the materials below or contact Lisa Ledwidge, campaign coordinator, at ieer[at]ieer.org.

Special Newsletter Issue Healthy from the Start: Building a Better Basis for Environmental Health Standards--Starting with Radiation, in Science for Democratic Action, February 2007 [PDF 700kB]

Report Science for the Vulnerable: Setting Radiation and Multiple Exposure Environmental Health Standards to Protect Those Most at Risk, October 19, 2006 [PDF 750kB, 107 pages]

Comments to the Science Advisory Board of the EPA on "Reference Man" and Radiation Protection, August 30, 2007 [PDF 175 kB, 12 pages]

Press release October 19, 2006
Press release February 20, 2008