Sylvaine Cordier

TL;DR: Metal workers, machinists, transport equipment operators and miners are among the major occupations contributing to occupational bladder cancer in men in Western Europe, with an increased risk for exposure to PAHs.

TL;DR: The conference goal was to highlight new insights into the effects of prenatal and early postnatal exposure to chemical agents, and their sustained effects on the individual throughout the lifespan.

TL;DR: Future research should develop methods to evaluate the effects of the DBP mixture and the interaction with personal characteristics, clarify the association between swimming pools and respiratory health, evaluate the occurrence of DBPs in low- and middle-income countries, and evaluate outcomes suggested by animal studies that have not been considered in epidemiological investigations.

TL;DR: The HIWATE project was a systematic analysis that combined the epidemiology on adverse pregnancy outcomes and other health effects with long-term exposure to low levels of drinking water disinfection byproducts in the European Union, and this study is the first to integrate quantitative in vitro toxicological data with analytical chemistry and human epidemiologic outcomes for drinking water DBPs.

TL;DR: Low-level childhood exposures to deltamethrin, in particular, and to pyrethroid insecticides, in general, may negatively affect neurocognitive development by 6years of age, and these cognitive deficits may be of importance educationally, because cognitive impairments in children interfere with learning and social development.