Basu, Niladri http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2695-1037
Lanphear, Bruce P.
Article History
Received: 18 July 2018
Accepted: 6 January 2019
First Online: 4 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Lanphear is serving as an expert witness in a case of lead poisoning in Milwaukee and Flint, Michigan, but he receives no personal compensation for these services. Over the past 5 years, Dr. Lanphear has served as an expert witness in California for the plaintiffs in a public nuisance case of childhood lead poisoning, a Proposition 65 case on behalf of the California Attorney General’s Office, a Canadian tribunal on trade dispute about using lead-free galvanized wire in stucco lathing, and cases of lead poisoning in Milwaukee, WI, and Flint, Michigan, but he receives no personal compensation for these services. Dr. Lanphear has served as a paid consultant for the California Department of Toxic Substance Control.Dr. Basu is a member of the Government of Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan (CMP) Science Committee. Dr. Basu has received research funding from diverse sources to study chemical pollution, and over the past 3 years, these have included NSERC, IDRC, US NIH (Fogarty International Center, US NIEHS), US EPA, Genome Canada, Genome Quebec, First Nations Environmental Contaminants Program, the Northern Contaminants Program, the World Health Organization, and McGill University.