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Nick Chartres, PhD

@nickchartres.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, The University of Sydney | Center to End Corporate Harm | Industry Influence on Science | Environmental Health | | Plastics | Ultra-processed foods | Tweets are my own

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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
For an overview of the health impacts of #microplastics, the #chemicals used in their production including #PFAS & #bisphenols, & what we can do to protect ourselves from them, have a listen to the below 15-minute podcast. Thanks to The Daily Aus for the invitation. shorturl.at/Z4nzP
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Join us as the American Journal of Public Health & leading scientists present groundbreaking research on the health impacts of ultra-processed foods. The launch of this July issue will be held in Washington, D.C. & virtually June 3 at 11 a.m. ET -sign up for a ticket now shorturl.at/B9gsk
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Big Food’s Tobacco Moment: Evidence on the Harms of Ultra-Processed Food
Leading scientists unveil new evidence on ultra-processed foods' harms and solutions at the launch of the AJPH July issue in Washington, DC
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Sydney Morning Herlad covers our study in New England Journal of Medicine establishing the corporations that make 5 health harming products (#fossilfuels, #chemicals, #ultraprocessedfoods, #tobacco & #alcohol) as the leading risk factors for death globally. www.smh.com.au/national/the...
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Very excited to announce our paper on corporate vectors of chronic disease - and what can be done about it - published in NEJM! Congrats to all our authors including @nickchartres.bsky.social @feralyogi.bsky.social @drlauraschmidt.bsky.social @traceywoodruff.bsky.social DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms2507028
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
👇 Our study published New England Journal of Medicine establishes the corporations that make 5 health harming products (#fossilfuels, #chemicals, #ultraprocessedfoods, #tobacco & #alcohol) are the leading risk factors for death globally. @c2ech.bsky.social www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
👇3-minute overview of key limitations of the MAHA Commision Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy. Of greatest concern - no effort to address corporate capture of regulatory agencies by the #chemical industry. prheucsf.blog/2025/09/09/m...
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MAHA plan fails to recommend real solutions to rising chronic disease
The new MAHA action plan provides evidence that industry stepped in and said, ‘not while we are in charge.’ What’s telling is not only what’s in the report, but what has been removed from the report, ...
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
American Journal of Public Health Call for Papers: “How can we address the influence of the ultra-processed food (UPF) industry in shaping our food systems and overreliance on UPFs and what types of science-based policies are required to reduce UPF consumption?" Details bit.ly/3IegzY3
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Final round global Plastics Treaty negotiations begin today in Switzerland. These talks will shape how much #plastic the world will produce for generations to come. Here is a 5-minute overview of the key decisions that must be made to protect human #health. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Nations gather in push to finalise UN Plastics Treaty - ABC listen
Representatives from 170 countries are gathering in Geneva, Switzerland, today in the hopes of finalising a global treaty limiting plastic pollution. December talks in South Korea collapsed after a s...
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Liza Gross @lizagross.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
“The world is facing a plastic pollution crisis that is getting worse every year.” U.N. negotiators will soon hash out the terms of a global plastics treaty. Experts say they must focus on capping plastics production instead of false solutions like recycling. insideclimatenews.org/news/0907202...
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Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say - Inside Climate News
Plastics and their toxic chemicals endanger people, wildlife and the environment throughout their life cycle, they warn, calling for production caps in the U.N. treaty.
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The world is about to finalize the most consequential legally binding instrument on plastics. It will decide how much #plastic the world will produce for generations. Please read our Editorial in @who.int Bulletin to understand key flaws in the Treaty. It will take 5 minutes.
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
@ucsf-prhe.bsky.social will be hosting an in-person workshop, How to Conduct Gold-Star Systematic Reviews, this August. I will be joined by @traceywoodruff.bsky.social It will be held on Sunday, August 17th, from 1-5pm, at the Hotel Indigo in Atlanta. Registration can be found at: bit.ly/sr-aug25
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The administration is gutting the most important office at #USEPA, responsible for identifying harms of hazardous chemicals like Gen X, #PFAS. It is critical in preventing chronic diseases like #cancer. Watch @traceywoodruff.bsky.social @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social giving testimony today bit.ly/43kXbiF
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Want to learn how we can hold health harming corporations to account? Join us 12pm PT, Thursday May 29 to hear about the work of the @UCSF Center to End Corporate Harm
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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"If we are not evaluating emerging chemicals, if we are pretending they don't exist, we are going to see the health consequences, maybe 10 or 20 years from now," another scientist told NPR. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Trump cuts demolish agency focused on toxic chemicals and workplace hazards
The Trump administration has decimated an agency responsible for carrying out much of the research and prevention efforts to curb exposure to dangerous substances and situations in the workplace.
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The American Chemistry Council along with dozens of trade organizations propose gutting major #environmental #regulations in U.S, including on #PFAS. These rollbacks will ^ chronic disease & not make America healthy. Only industries bottom-line. Great blog by @slamont.bsky.social bit.ly/4khAsL9
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Industry sent their wish list to the new administration. What’s in it will make people sick.
The following is a guest post by the Center to End Corporate Harm. The National Association of Manufacturers and the American Chemistry Council – the chemical industry’s trade group – sent a 21-page l...
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
@traceywoodruff.bsky.social & I explained to @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social why delaying action on regulating #microplastics while waiting for perfect data could have serious consequences, particularly given the rise in unexplained #cancer rates and chronic diseases bit.ly/44lBTnd
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Microplastics: an underestimated and underregulated crisis
Plastics are everywhere—even in the air we breathe. Researchers are discovering microplastics (<5 mm) and nanoplastics (<1 μm), not just in the environment around us, but also in the internal organs o...
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
With clever messaging around MAHA & daily 'shocks', many people are too distracted to understand the #environmental rollbacks taking place. Read 👇why rates of children's #cancer, #parkinsonsdisease & #infertility will skyrocket. bit.ly/41EEgyx
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"Make America Healthy Again" is dead
There is nothing RFK Jr. can do at the Department of Health to make up for what's happening at the EPA.
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#1: Put chemical industry lobbyists in charge at EPA's toxics office including one who worked for Dupont, a leading manufacturer of #PFAS & another who fought against banning #asbestos prheucsf.blog/2025/03/10/1...
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10 ways the Trump administration is “making America toxic again”
Our goal is to get toxins out of the environment, poisons out of our food supply, and keep our children healthy and strong.” – President Trump during his State of the Union address, March 4, 2025 We a...
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Removal of the most critical independent program at USEPA because of corporate capture, led by the American Chemistry Council, is a clear contradiction to the directives of Executive Order 14212 "Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission" www.propublica.org/article/legi...
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Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections
Two bills in Congress would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments completed by its IRIS program in environmental regulations or enforcement.
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Join us on Tuesday Mar 11, 2025, 11:00 AM Pacific Time to hear the findings of our world first rapid systematic review on the health effects of #microplastics. We will discuss what action #governments globally must take now to protect this and future generations from their harms.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
IRIS made it possible to confirm what communities already knew - that they were getting sick from toxic chemicals
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
U.S EPA fails to quantify how many people are harmed at different levels of #chemical exposure for any health effects that are not #cancer, thus, significantly underestimating the true risk of chemicals & the benefits of regulating them. Deeply flawed and dangerous to our #health
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Universal principles that should be implemented at all regulatory agencies, globally to protect #publichealth and not #corporate interests and profits.
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Learn about the work this new Center will do based on empirical research using the @ucsflibrary.bsky.social industry documents. This archive now includes >21 million previously secret internal documents from the #fossilfuel, #tobacco, #ultraprocessedfood, #pharmaceutical and #chemical industries.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Learn the latest science and keep up with work to combat the leading vector of disease this century. Based on the excellent papers in the UCSF @ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social
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Rachel Rothschild @profrrothschild.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have learned so much from @traceywoodruff.bsky.social @nickchartres.bsky.social and my fellow co-authors on this paper. For more on how the framework can improve scientific analyses and toxic chemical regulations: prheucsf.blog/2025/02/27/s... Paper is here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
👇Once established that a #chemical harms human #health the 1st step in using our framework designed for regulatory agencies, like U.S EPA is to determine if it is 'essential' - if not, then prohibit its use immediately.
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Great article on the launch of our new Center to End Corporate Harm at @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social by @lizagross.bsky.social Through empirical investigations, our work will aim to prevent the leading risk factor for death and disease globally. bit.ly/434MfqU
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Lethal Greed: How Corporate Manipulation of Science and Regulation Makes People Sick - Inside Climate News
Scientists launch a new research center to study what they say is now a leading disease risk factor: corporations.
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If this administration cares about the harms of #PFAS #chemicals, then they must address the root cause of their widespread harm... #corporate funded science and #suppression of unfavorable science. Read the 👇to understand the strategies used across industries pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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The Devil they Knew: Chemical Documents Analysis of Industry Influence on PFAS Science
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of widely-used chemicals that persist in the environment and bioaccumulate in humans and animals, becoming an increasing cause for global concern....
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Excellent piece in The Hill on the extraordinary health costs associated with #ultraprocessedfoods in the U.S, and why limiting their availability is critical for the health of populations and economies worldwide. thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I recommended to the Australian Government Senate Select Committee on #PFAS 'forever' chemicals yesterday that they must follow the EUs proposal to ban PFAS (~14,000 variants) as a class. It is the only way we can protect ourselves & future generations from the harms of these #chemicals.
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Today we launched The Center to End Corporate Harm, which will illuminate and counteract corporate influence on #science, the regulatory & #policy process leading to improved #health & health equity. Read about the strategic aims of the Center in the blog 👇
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Stuart Gillespie @stuartgillespie.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
"Industry-funded research and exaggerated claims litter the arguments made by the fluoropolymer industry against stricter regulation" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Industry using ‘tobacco playbook’ to fend off ‘forever chemicals’ regulation
Industry-funded research and exaggerated claims litter arguments made by fluoropolymer industry against stricter regulation
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
👇 Library contains >21 million documents (including #pharmaceutical, #Ultraprocessedfood, #chemical & #tobacco) & have been instrumental in holding health harming #corporations to account by providing an unprecedented opportunity to investigate & identify common strategies used across corporations.
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
@washingtonpost.com, @shannonosaka.bsky.social discusses our world first rapid systematic review on the health harms of #microplastics published today. @shannonosaka.bsky.social bit.ly/41HAypI
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What we just found out about the possible tie between microplastics and cancer
New research published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Science and Technology offers evidence that microplastics are harming human health.
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Our world first systematic review of the health harms of #microplastics was published today. We concluded that microplastics are “suspected” to harm human #reproductive, #digestive, and #respiratory health, with a suggested link to colon and lung #cancer. www.thenewlede.org/2024/12/bewa...
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Beware the air you breathe - more evidence links microplastics to health problems
By Carey Gillam People diagnosed with infertility and certain cancers may have to blame the very air they breathe, according to a new report that adds to evidence that tiny plastic particles in air p...
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I highly recommend attending this webinar next week co-sponsored by @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social, Collaborative for Health & Environment & @earthjustice.bsky.social I'll be discussing key methodological flaws of U.S. EPA #chemical risk evaluations, and what it means for #publichealth
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Water utilities in Brisbane suppressed data on #PFAS levels ~x 9 ^ than thresholds in the U.S. I explained to @brisbanetimes.bsky.social “Suppressing information like this when it has been explicitly requested sets a concerning precedent and will erode the public’s trust, unnecessarily."
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The test results Seqwater tried to keep secret, and how they came out
Brisbane residents were asking the government-owned water authority for information on “forever chemicals” in order to protect themselves. Seqwater kept quiet.
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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We love this creative approach to sharing tips to avoid #PFAS exposure. Our suggestion is for EPA to regulate PFAS as a class of chemicals, rather than one at a time. publichealthinsider.com/2024/11/26/w...
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What can we do to limit PFAS? A comic explains (part 3). – PUBLIC HEALTH INSIDER
Leer en español In this final comic in a series about a group of chemicals known as “Forever Chemicals” or PFAS, we share ways that Public Health – Seattle & King County, King County residents, and or...
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Great piece on effective #science translation & communication. Understanding the concerns and needs of the public and then delivering your message with empathy is critical to getting cut through in an already cluttered world of #misinformation. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | What 'Make America Healthy Again' Gets Right About Communications
We all want a healthier America. Let's talk about how to get there.
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Please join my talk tomorrow, 26/11 at 12pm AEST 'Using Internal Industry Documents to Address the 21st Century Vector of Disease; Corporate Influence (#chemicals, #tobacco, #UPFs) on Science, Health & Democracy' at The University of Sydney. uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89245914291 Meeting ID: 892 4591 4291
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Nick Chartres, PhD @nickchartres.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I explain that of most concern about the mix of #pesticides found in air samples near a school is that regulatory agencies don't account for and quantify the cumulative health harms these #chemicals cause. They are tested one at a time, not accounting for real world exposures. bit.ly/4hUe9uU
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Banned pesticide among toxic cocktail discovered in state’s west
A government monitoring program has detected traces of many potentially toxic agricultural chemicals on public land.
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