Philip J. Landrigan

Well, this is the, the most pressing question at all.

If you talk with the major expert in the field, like, for example, with, uh, Professor Philip Landrigan, which was, uh, also one of the authors of our publication, that, uh, is, is, uh, the head of a specific program dedicated to the effect of plastics in, uh, at the Boston College, he says that, uh, the response of policy mas- makers should be plastic zero.

Plastic zero, but n- not only because of the effect, uh, possible effect on human health.

Uh, we already have data on planet health and the effect of plastics on planet health, and this should be sufficient to, to promote, to sustain a plastic zero program to be developed, try to ban completely the use of plastics in our life.

That was really the breakthrough.

Phil Landrigan, the great public health leader, Dick Jackson, his colleague on the National Academy, when they released their report that made that case, we released our report, Pesticides and Children's Food.

That was our first report.

And it was on the front page of papers all over the country.

Yeah, they knew.

At the time, Dr. Philip Landrigan was a professor of preventative medicine at Mount Sinai in Manhattan, which had a large program in occupational and environmental health.

He noted that although city and federal officials set thresholds for asbestos concentrations in dust and air samples to deem which areas and buildings could be reoccupied, there was no such thing as a safe asbestos risk from a medical perspective.

Asbestos exposure, he said, causes damage slowly over time.