The faroes statement: human health effects of developmental exposure to chemicals in our environment.

Philippe Grandjean 1,2 , David Bellinger 2 , Åke Bergman 3 , Sylvaine Cordier 4 , George Davey-Smith 5 , Brenda Eskenazi 6 , David Gee 7 , Kimberly Gray 8 , Mark Hanson 9 , Peter van den Hazel 10 , Jerrold J. Heindel 8 , Birger Heinzow 11 , Irva Hertz-Picciotto 12 , Howard Hu 13 , Terry T-K Huang 14 , Tina Kold Jensen 1 , Philip J. Landrigan 15 , I. Caroline McMillen 16 , Katsuyuki Murata 17 , Beate Ritz 18 , Greet Schoeters 19 , Niels Erik Skakkebæk 20 , Staffan Skerfving 21 and Pal Weihe 22 1 Department of Environmental Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; 2 Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; 3 Department of Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; 4 Inserm U625, Campus de Beaulieu, Université de Rennes I, Rennes, France; 5 University of Bristol, Department of Social Medicine, Bristol, UK; 6 School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; 7 European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark; 8 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health/ Department of Health and Human Services, Durham, NC, USA; 9 University of Southampton, Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton, UK; 10 Public Health Services Gelderland Midden, Arnhem, the Netherlands; 11 State Agency for Health and Occupational Safety of Land Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany; 12 Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA; 13 Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 14 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health/Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA; 15 Department of Community & Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; 16 Sansom Research Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; 17 Division of Environmental Health Sciences, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan; 18 Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 19 Flemish Institute of Technological Research, Mol, Belgium; 20 Department of Growth and Reproduction, National University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; 21 Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; and 22 Department of Occupational Medicine and Public Health, The Faroese Hospital System, Tórshavn, The Faroe Islands