Dr Samuel Epstein, MD, D.Path., D.T.M&H, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois Medical Center Chicago is an internationally recognised authority on the causes and prevention of cancer, and on carcinogenic exposures in air water, the work place and consumer products-food, household products and cosmetics and toiletries.

Dr Epstein has published 260 peer reviewed scientific articles and has authored 4 books

• "The politics of Cancer" 1978

• "The Politics of Cancer Revisited" (1998)

• "GOT (Genetically Engineered Milk) Milk!" The Monsanto Milk Wars Handbook

• "Unreasonable Risk" an expose of the cosmetics and personal care industry

Dr Epstein has also co-authored seven books, including

• "The Mutagenicity of Pesticides" (1971)
• "Drugs Of Abuse" (1971) Genetic and Other Chronic Non-Psychiatric Hazards
• "The Legislation of Product Safety" (1974) Consumer Health and Product Hazards
• "Hazardous Wastes in America" (1982)
• "Cancer In Britain" (1983) The Politics of Prevention
• "The Safe Shoppers Bible" (1995)
• "The Breast Cancer Prevention Program" (1998).

Dr Epstein has contributed numerous articles and editorials and letters to leading national newspapers

Dr Epstein's past committee and society involvements include: chairman of the Air Pollution Control Association Committee on Biological Effects of Air Pollutants; President of the Society of Occupational and Environmental health; Founder and Secretary of the Environmental Mutagen Society; Advisor to a wide range of public interest, environmental, citizen activist and organised labour groups; Co-Chairman of the Commission for the Advancement of Public Interest Organisations (CAPIO); and President of the Rachel Carson Council, Inc.

Dr Epstein is currently Chairman of the nation-wide Cancer Prevention Coalition.

His activities in the interface between science and public policy include:

• Consultant to the US Senate Committee on Public Works;
• Drafting Congressional legislation; frequent invited Congressional testimony;
• Membership of key federal agency advisory committees including the Health Effects Advisory Committee of EPA, and the 1973 Department of Labour Advisory Committee on the Regulation of Occupational Carcinogens.
• He was the key expert involved in the banning of hazardous products and pesticides, including DDT, Aldrin and Chlordane.
• Dr Epstein is the leading international expert on the public health hazards of the biosynthetic bovine growth hormone (rBGH) used for increasing milk production, and of sex hormones used for fattening cattle in feedlots on which he consulted for the E.C., testified on their behalf at the January 1997 World Trade Organisation hearings and presented testimony to the EU Parliament in May 1997.

More recently Dr Epstein presented draft "Legislative Proposals for Reversing the Cancer Epidemic" to the Swedish Parliament in December 1998 and to the UK All Parliamentary Cancer Group in June 1999.

Dr Epstein's numerous honours include:

• Medals and prizes in the UK Royal Army Corp.;
• The British Empire Cancer Campaign (now the CRC) Fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street and the Chester Beatty cancer Research Institute, London;
• The 1969 Society of Toxicology Achievement Award; the 1997 National Conservancy Award of the National Wildlife Federation; the 1981 Yale University Henry Kaiser Family Foundation Award;
• The 1989 Environmental Justice Award;
• The 1990 Rachel Carson Legacy Award, for "Significantly Advancing medical Research Into Effective Toxic Chemicals and Bringing His Knowledge Forcefully to World Attention"
• The 1998 Right Livelihood Award (The Alternative Nobel Prize) for International Contributions To Cancer Prevention
• The 1999 Bioneers Award
• The 1999 Project Censored Award (The Alternative Pulitzer prize for Investigative Journalism) for an article exposing the American Cancer Society

Dr Epstein is also a member of the National Writers Union, AFL-CIO and the National Association of Science Writers

Dr Epstein has extensive media experience involving numerous invited appearances on major TV networks including

• Sixty Minutes,
• Face The Nation,
• Meet The Press,
• McNeil/Lehrer,
• Donahue,
• Good Morning America,
• The Today Show.

He has also made frequent appearances on Canadian, European, Australian and Japanese TV.

The Health-Report website staff and management applaud the sterling work Dr Samuel Epstein is doing in bringing public awareness to the insidious permeation of toxic chemicals into our everyday lives. 

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