Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia (Dr vom Saal); Environmental Health Sciences, Charlottesville, Virginia (Dr Myers).
Corresponding Author: Frederick S. vom Saal, PhD, Division of Biological Sciences, 105 Lefevre Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 ([email protected]).
Published Online: September 16, 2008 (doi:10.1001/jama.300.11.1353).
Financial Disclosures: Dr vom Saal reported serving on the organizing committee of a National Institutes of Health (NIH)–sponsored conference on bisphenol A (BPA) held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2006; serving as an expert witness for the defendant in a trial in 2004 regarding the health effects of bisphenol; serving as a consultant for in-preparation litigation regarding BPA; serving as chief executive officer of XenoAnalytical LLC, which uses a variety of analytical techniques to measure estrogenic activity and BPA in tissues and leachates from products; and maintaining a Web site (http://endocrinedisruptors.missouri.edu/vomsaal/vomsaal.html) that contains a document with references and abstracts for published articles on BPA. Dr Myers reported serving on the organizing committee of the NIH-sponsored conference on BPA held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2006; serving as chief executive officer/chief scientist of a nonprofit organization, Environmental Health Sciences, which aggregates and redistributes news about the environment and health from media sources around the world (EnvironmentalHealthNews.org; BPA coverage is included when it occurs, and no fees are charged for this service because it is supported by private foundations); publishing (with 2 coauthors) Our Stolen Future, a book that briefly mentions BPA (Dr Myers has received less than $10 000 in royalties for this book since publication); and publishing a companion non–revenue-generating Web site (OurStolenFuture.org) that summarizes emerging science about endocrine disruption, including findings on BPA.
