Nick Chartres, PhD

Senior Research Fellow, The University of Sydney, Collaborator UCSF PRHE | Industry Influence on Science | Environmental Health | Tweets are my own

[Nick Chartres, PhD @NickZChartres]

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[Safer States @saferstates]

Check out @UCSF Magazine's great piece on microplastics. These tiny plastics are inside us and are linked to serious health risks.

We need state leaders to:
⬇️ Reduce plastic use
🍽️ Promote non-toxic reuse
🙅‍♂️ Phase out harmful chemicals
https://t.co/QXPXUgZDl9

[Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @UCSF_PRHE]

There is no safe way to recycle plastics that contain thousands of toxic chemicals. Negotiators of the new plastics treaty need to push back on industry's false narrative that we can "recycle" our way out of the plastics crisis.

https://t.co/1Bo4ucmYGp

[Nick Chartres, PhD @NickZChartres]

Want to learn how we can hold health harming corporations to account? Join us 12pm PT, Thursday May 29 to hear about the work of the UCSF Center to End Corporate Harm

[Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @UCSF_PRHE]

SAVE THE DATE: 2 weeks from today - learn how to find corporate internal documents and what they tell us about industry strategies to promote health-harming products and delay regulations. With @TraceyJWoodruff and @NickZChartres @industrydocs

https://t.co/EJLAA47ub0

[Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @UCSF_PRHE]

Veterans are speaking out about their exposure to the highly toxic TCE. A ban on TCE was scheduled for January 2025, but the new administration has failed to implement it. Our troops and their families need protection from TCE and other dangerous chemicals.

[Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @UCSF_PRHE]

U.S. military #veterans are raising the alarm about TCE, a highly toxic chemical that EPA found poses "unreasonable health risks." Under the current administration, EPA delayed a scheduled ban and phase out. It's time to protect our troops and their families from #TCE.

[Nick Chartres, PhD @NickZChartres]

With clever messaging around MAHA & daily 'shocks', many people are too distracted to understand the #environmental rollbacks taking place. Read 👇why rates of children's #cancer, #parkinsonsdisease & #infertility will skyrocket. https://t.co/Fqojb7sB5x

[NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia) @neuraustralia]

#Antidepressants are widely prescribed for low back #pain and #sciatica, but new research led by @mcferraro_, Doctoral candidate at NeuRA's @PainIMPACTNeuRA and @UNSWMedicine, found they provide little benefit – and may even be harmful.

Read more: https://t.co/V82U4jKebQ

[Nick Chartres, PhD @NickZChartres]

#1: Put chemical industry lobbyists in charge at EPA, including one who worked for Dupont, a leading manufacturer of #PFAS & number two in charge at the Agency fought against banning #asbestos https://t.co/3EIipg0mWA

[Nick Chartres, PhD @NickZChartres]

As explained by Sharon Lerner, ProPublica IRIS assessments have been the cornerstone for setting standards for some of the most lethal #cancer causing #chemcials including #formaldehyde, #chloroprene & #ethyleneoxide.

[Nick Chartres, PhD @NickZChartres]

Removal of the most critical independent program at the USEPA because of industry pressure and corporate capture is a clear contradiction to the directives of Executive Order 14212 "Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission"

https://t.co/6oQuVVnU6T

[Nick Chartres, PhD @NickZChartres]

Cutting this program will lead to sub-standard scientific evaluations, higher levels of #chemical exposures and thus greater rates of disease including #infertility, #cancer and developmental disorder like #Autisim & #ADHD.

[Nick Chartres, PhD @NickZChartres]

👇👇👇Join us to hear the findings of our world first rapid systematic review on the health effects of #microplastics. We will discuss what action #governments globally must take now to protect this and future generations from their harms.

[ACAT @ak_action]

🖥️ Next week on Tuesday, March 11, CHE-Alaska will host a webinar with Abena BakenRa and Dr. Nicholas Chartres exploring the latest findings on microplastics and human health. @CHE_healthenv @UCSF_PRHE

➡️ Register here! https://t.co/wRsjSlHalQ

[Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @UCSF_PRHE]

Curious about microplastics? What does the science say? Find out from two of the best studying this problem.

https://t.co/UNhZcXilCP

[Nick Chartres, PhD @NickZChartres]

@EPA fails to quantify how many people are harmed at different levels of #chemical exposure for any health effects that are not #Cancer, thus, significantly underestimating the true risk of chemicals & the benefits of regulating them. Deeply flawed and dangerous to our #Health

[Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @UCSF_PRHE]

Want to "make America healthy again"? Then EPA needs to use and follow the best available science rather than give the chemical industry free rein to poison our air, food, and water.

https://t.co/cxEyzITkWz

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

🇦🇺 has a state capture problem.

Our weak lobbying laws fuel it: no transparency, no accountability & a revolving door between politics and industry.

The major parties keep teaming up to block the release of ministerial diaries. What are they hiding?

https://t.co/FKxvXJW20a

[Nick Chartres, PhD @NickZChartres]

Universal principles that should be implemented at all regulatory agencies, globally to protect #publichealth and not #corporate interests and profits.

[Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @UCSF_PRHE]

NEW: A team of experts, led by PRHE, has developed recommendations for the new administration to prioritize science and health. They include to safeguard scientific integrity and stop corporate interference in regulatory decision-making.

https://t.co/tFf3GJtGN3

[Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @UCSF_PRHE]

Our new evidence-to-decision framework for environmental health puts people first so that we can better mitigate harms.

https://t.co/aUP9QXugbf

https://t.co/jMqTZYKbOo

[Nick Chartres, PhD @NickZChartres]

Once established that a #chemical harms human #Health the 1st step in using our framework deigned for regulatory agencies, like @EPA is to determine if it's 'essential' - if not, then prohibit its use immediately

[Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @UCSF_PRHE]

NEW: Our new Evidence-to-Decision Framework for Environmental Health is out! This tool is designed to help govt make better decisions to protect people's health, especially for communities highly impacted by toxics and pollutants.
https://t.co/jMqTZYKbOo

https://t.co/aUP9QXugbf

[Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH @TraceyJWoodruff]

See excellent article by @lizabio on our new Center to address the leading global disease risk factor

corporations and the products they produce
Drawing on research using the amazing @UCSF @industrydocs