{"id":4598,"date":"2019-11-12T18:14:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T05:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2019-11-12T18:14:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T05:14:23","slug":"pete-myers-visting-scholar-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/pete-myers-visting-scholar-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Myers: Visting Scholar 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PERC was honoured to have hosted Dr. Pete Myers as a visiting scholar in early November 2019. Dr. Myers gave three presentations: Palmerston North City Library; Massey University, Wellington; and the Ministry for the Environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video footage from the Wellington can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/ https:\/\/webcast.massey.ac.nz\/Mediasite\/Play\/88cd5b76c9274e54ba63f5121fdc81d61d\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The key ideas that emerged across Pete&#8217;s talks were that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) is ubiquitous<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211; these compounds are pretty much everywhere and in most plastics: Bisphenols (e.g. BPA monomer in polycarbonate), glyphosate (Roundup), atrazine (a common herbicide), phthalates (plasticizer used in PVC plastics including children\u2019s toys and water pipes), PFAS (perfluorinated compound found in non-stick frying pans, pizza boxes and microwavable popcorn bags, mass amounts in artificial turf, firefighting foams, flame retardant coatings on furniture).<\/li><li><strong>Extremely low doses matter a lot:<\/strong>\u00a0just 1 part per billion can cause obesity, diabetes, ADHD, infertility, breast and other hormone-related cancers, asthma and many other diseases.<\/li><li><strong>Current testing methods for the safe limits of EDCs are deeply flawed<\/strong>: The\u00a0FDA approved \u201csafe dose\u201d of EDCS is at least 20,000x higher than modern endocrinology recommends.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>EDCs were found in all PLA<\/strong>\u00a0(the most common bioplastic on the market) in a recent highly-regarded and peer reviewed study.<\/li><li><strong>When all plastics are produced (including PLA) and recycled (including PLA) \u00a0Non-Intentionally Added Substances (NIAS) can be introduced. \u00a0<\/strong>NIAS can disrupt gene expression and endocrine systems\u00a0(This is also the case with cardboard and is why recycled cardboard should not be used for food contact materials).\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>The impacts are trans and intergenerational:<\/strong>\u00a0The Impacts of hormones on gene expression in the womb through exposure have impacts not only on the first generation but on subsequent generations.\u00a0 It can also skip generations.<\/li><li><em>Genuine<\/em>\u00a0<strong>green chemistry<\/strong> may provide a safe pathway forward.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a lot of green washed green chemistry out there so beware.<\/li><li><strong>The safety of EDCs is shrouded in blatant \u201cmanufacturing of doubt\u201d by the petrochemical industry.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PERC was honoured to have hosted Dr. Pete Myers as a visiting scholar in early November 2019. Dr. Myers gave three presentations: Palmerston North City Library; Massey University, Wellington; and the Ministry for the Environment. Video footage from the Wellington can be found here. The key ideas that emerged across Pete&#8217;s talks were that: Exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/pete-myers-visting-scholar-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQ2HH-1ca","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perc.ac.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}