A body of the world's leading public health researchers says that the number of children dying from noncommunicable diseases over the past 50 years has gone up dramatically because of exposure to synthetic chemicals. Their paper, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is described by one author as a "call to arms," per The Guardian, demanding urgent global action and a dramatic restructuring of the law and the chemical industry. "The evidence is so overwhelming and the effects of manufactured chemicals are so disruptive for children, that inaction is no longer an option," study coauthor Daniele Mandrioli, director […]