Revisions and Corrections

On September 24, 2002, the Washington Post published a correction related to Lois Swirsky Gold, an appointee to a CDC advisory panel on environmental health, who is mentioned in the Politics and Science report. The Washington Post correction reads:

A Sept. 17 front-page article about advisory committees in the Department of Health and Human Services said a University of California scientist, Lois Swirsky Gold, was known for her "connections" to the chemical industry and that she had "made a career of countering environmentalists' claims of links between pollutants and cancer." The article should have made it clear that the chemical industry had connected itself to Gold, not the reverse. Gold has made a career of developing risk analysis models. The chemical industry had favored those models, which generally support the conclusion that the human health risks posed by many chemicals in the environment are relatively small. Gold has received compensation for her work on a committee funded largely by chemical companies.

On November 7, 2003, the discussion of the National Advisory Committee for Microbiological Criteria for Foods was taken off of the website while the issue is under further investigation.