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Tracey Woodruff

@traceywoodruff.bsky.social
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Professor - Scientist - Environment Chemicals & Health - Science & Policy @Stanford @stanfordeph.bsky.social I read between the lines so you don't have to Views/Tweets are my own

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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
👇🔥Chronic disease are going up and corporate products are responsible for 31% of deaths globally. Corporations are a vector for disease need to be addressed through research and policy to reduce health harms and improve health. See our paper in www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Corporate Vectors of Chronic Disease — Using Internal Industry Documents to Craft Counterstrategies | NEJM
Corporations that make and market health-harming products are a primary vector for the global increase in mortality related to noncommunicable diseases. Research using internal industry documents c...
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New TSCA amendments proposed by Republicans in the Senate would undermine EPA ability to stop toxic new chemicals on the marketplace. Sadly no one from the public health community was asked to testify.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Want to see the result of a 30 year campaign? Industry gets its wish to undermine risk assessment and formaldehyde www.propublica.org/article/epa-...
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Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
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Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The chemical lobby has been spending millions of dollars to change the Toxic Substances Control Act. That's the main law that works to protect people from harmful chemicals. What does industry want? They want less oversight and less concern for your health. #badidea
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
👇Webinar on how financial conflicts of interest and corporations influence the decision making process
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Dimitri Abrahamsson @dimiabrams.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
At EPA’s D4 meeting today: - Most reviewers industry affiliated - Most EPA scientists in sync with industry - EU, UK, Canada: “D4 very persistent and very bioaccumulatative” - EPA: “maybe persistent but not bioaccumulative” This is what corporate capture looks like www.youtube.com/live/eTZ9rjV...
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Day 1 12/02 - Peer Review of the Draft Risk Evaluation for Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4)
YouTube video by uvideoonline
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Another Making America Sick Again action by the Trump administration. Going to court on behalf of the industry to get rid of the new air pollution standards that protect people from getting sick and dying. insideepa.com/daily-news/e...
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EPA Asks D.C. Circuit To Vacate Biden-Era PM2.5 NAAQS As Unlawful | InsideEPA.com
EPA is asking the D.C. Circuit to vacate the Biden EPA’s tougher fine particulate (PM2.5) federal air standard, seeking to convince some judges that the rule is unlawful after they declined to support...
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
this was a great article - and made me rethink the term and what we are doing today to protect workers from being mauled by capitalism
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The Examination @theexamination.org · 04/08/2025
In the World of Pain project, we found that German drugmaker Grünenthal promotes its opioids through misleading tactics including funding doctors, studies, patient groups and pain associations. 💊👇 www.theexamination.org/articles/fou...
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Four ways Grünenthal spreads misleading claims about opioids around the world
To promote its painkillers, the drugmaker doles out funding for studies, doctors, patients groups, pain associations and more.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
So many plastics from so many places - and growing leading to our exposures. Time for the plastics treaty to address health when the countries meet in August
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
👇 Excellent article on our new paper on why - Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say 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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Toxic-Free Future @toxicfreefuture.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Washington’s @ecology.wa.gov just released a draft rule on toxic #PFAS. ✅ Ban proposed for clothing, car washes & cleaning products. ⚠️ But for most products? Just reporting—not a ban. PFAS are toxic & costly to clean up—and alternatives exist. 🗣️ Tell Ecology by July 20: Ban PFAS in ALL products!
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Tell Ecology: Ban PFAS in ALL products! - Toxic-Free Future
Washington's Department of Ecology must do more to identify safer solutions and ban PFAS in ALL products—not just a few.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 11/06/2025
Today, the EPA moved to roll back key protections against carbon emissions and air pollution from fossil fuel power plants. “It’s galling to watch the US government so thoroughly debase itself as it sacrifices the public good to boost the bottom line of fossil fuel.” UCS Statement:
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Dark Day for Climate, Health as EPA Axes Power Plant Carbon Regs, Reopens Mercury Pollution Loopholes
EPA announced new plans to unravel protections from harmful carbon emissions and hazardous air pollution released by fossil fuel-fired power plants
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
👉new blog on study finding exposures to haloalkanes linked to aggressive brain cancer - supported by our @ucsf-earth.bsky.social prheucsf.blog/2025/06/10/c...
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Chemicals used in firefighting and pesticides linked to most common and deadly brain tumors
Causes of gliomas, the most common type of deadly brain tumor, remain a mystery despite improvements in understanding glioma risks. Firefighters have a higher rate of these cancerous tumors, so we exp...
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
New study finding glyphosate increases cancers after early life exposure ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Carcinogenic effects of long-term exposure from prenatal life to glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides in Sprague–Dawley rats - Environmental Health
Background Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) are the world’s most widely used weed control agents. Public health concerns have increased since the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) c...
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
👇My interview in @newscientist.com on how corporations' control your health - and what we can do about it. Plus, I have weird blue hair in the illustration, so it is worth checking out just to see that. www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
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Do corporations actually have more control over your health than you?
From the food on supermarket shelves to the air we breathe, large companies exert a greater impact on our health than we might realise, argues health scientist Tracey Woodruff
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
woo hoo - successful science! more of what the world needs
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UCSF Industry Documents Library @ucsf-industrydocs.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Tomorrow is World No Tobacco Day! The Industry Documents Library at UCSF hosts publicly released industry documents for research & education. Check out our tobacco collections, now also including over 4 million documents from Juul Labs. #WorldNoTobaccoDay www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
Graphic image of two archival tobacco industry documents related to past World No Tobacco Days.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
How often can you get admission to a FREE workshop with experts in systematic review? If you are attending @isee-global.bsky.social in Atlanta - learn best practices Register here www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-con...
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CHE @che-healthenv.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
TOMORROW - Learn about UCSF’s Center to End Corporate Harm, how to use the Industry Documents Library, and how researchers tap these internal documents to understand how corporations influence science & policy. @ucsf-prhe.bsky.social RSVP here: www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
Top half of image is head shots of speakers over old archive documents. Bottom half of image is names, titles, logos and event details over cream background.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Join us to hear about what is really driving our current health crisis - and the amazing resources at UCSF that will help address the role of corporate influence on science as a health driver. 👇
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
OH the irony - they want to publish in their own journals? and they suspended publication of Environmental Health Perspectives a NIEHS/NIH journal. hmm
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Our statement on new MAHA report. It identifies growing chronic children's health conditions and some toxic chemicals' effects. Also names Corporate Influence as a contributor But children will get less healthy with administration's proposed cuts to EPA & research prheucsf.blog/2025/05/23/s...
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Statement on Make America Healthy Again Commission report
Dr. Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, professor and director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and the Center to End Corporate Harm at UCSF issued the following statement upon release o...
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Dimitri Abrahamsson @dimiabrams.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Excellent speech by @traceywoodruff.bsky.social If the administration is serious about making America healthy they need to fund environmental research. It is science fiction to think that you can cut 55% of EPA’s budget and expect people’s health to improve. www.youtube.com/live/3l-bOsI...
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Toxic Priorities: How Trump’s EPA Puts Polluters Over People
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
And I have been hard on the NYTimes for not covering the role of funding source in their science. So I want to give them extra props and say - please more.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Excellent NY Times article on how industry funding influences findings of whether meat is beneficial 👉 Studies funded by the red meat industry were nearly 4 times as likely to report favorable or neutral cardiovascular results compared to studies with no such links www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...
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Is Red Meat Bad for Your Heart? It May Depend on Who Funded the Study.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Good news from other countries - Finally a process for banning toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs), and long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids (LC-PFCAs).
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
👇👇by former EPA deputy administrator Robert Sussman On the administration's attack on addressing climate change. See how the administration attacks science and uses relation to claim climate change is the 'product of misguided religious faith rather than science' www.eli.org/vibrant-envi...
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The Anti-Climate Fanaticism of the Second Trump Term | Environmental Law Institute
Part 1: The Purge of Climate from All Federal ProgramsBy Bob Sussman Bob Sussman was Deputy Administrator of EPA during 1993-1994 and Senior Policy Counsel to the Administrator during 2009-2013.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This study is another reason the government needs to move faster, not slower, to regulate PFAS exposures - see the links to childhood leukemia, which has been increasing 👇👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Exposure to per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances in residential settled dust and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
What's new? Because of widespread use and resistance to degradation, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitous in the environment. For young children, owing in part to crawling and ha...
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Wow - another study showing pesticide-related exposures linked to Parkinson's - from living near a golf course. Before you go all correlation not causation, remember this adds to extensive studies in animals and people showing pesticides <>Parkinsons. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Proximity to Golf Courses and Risk of Parkinson Disease
This case-control of older US adults examines risk of Parkinson Disease by proximity of residence to a golf course.
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Center to End Corporate Harm @c2ech.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The chemical industry has a long list of "asks" from the new administration. These requests will leave people exposed to more toxic chemicals and pollutants in the air, water, homes, and workplaces. Read the list. What do you think?
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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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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Wow - nanoplastics can gain toxic superpowers by absorbing other toxic agents - to become megatoxic? seems like this deserves a good meme
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Couldn't agree more - and the cuts to EPA Science will mean that there will be less solutions and potential for more exposures to toxic chemicals - see our blog on the many ways that EPA ORD is so essential to the health of the public. prheucsf.blog/2025/05/07/t...
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They are shutting down EPA’s science.
What does the chemical spill from the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment, Florida’s red tide, and chemicals in household cleaning products have in common? They all rely on EPA’s Office of Research ...
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Interesting - and this is why we have to know about the role of environmental pollution - which we know is higher in low income communities and communities of color. You can see a map here - oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscr... we can't address growing cancer risk unless we address environmental pollution
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Gloria Miele, PhD @gloriamiele.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Being antiracist is punk.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Another great piece by @shannonosaka.bsky.social on the health dangers of plastics and the chemicals in them. And it's a global problem. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Common chemicals in plastic linked to over 350,000 deaths from heart disease
Researchers estimate that exposure to phthalates contributes to 13 percent of all heart disease deaths in people between 55 and 64 years old each year.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Thanks for this. 4 sure there are many many toxic chemicals in food, and water and air. I agree about wanting to control our environment. But I also know that unless the government does its job - we will still be exposed to toxic chemicals no matter what. right now that's not looking so good
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This is particularly tragic for those that live near these facilities which are primarily low income communities and communities of color -
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Thank you to our #Veterens for serving our country - and serving again by telling the truth about toxic TCE and that we need to ban this chemical and the government should not give it a pass.
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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
NEW: NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Is this the end of @EHP? Knew this was coming but it is still a huge blow to the field and will boost for profit journals ehp.niehs.nih.gov/do/10.5555/b...
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EHP Publishing
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Sure, petroleum-based food dyes/chemicals can affect child neurodevelopment (see CA report oehha.ca.gov/risk-assessm...) But I'm pretty offering 'honey' (wait isn't that sugar?lol) won't do it. So far, most of the food industry has not agreed to this phase-out. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
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RFK Jr. Announces Ban on Food Dyes and Says ‘Sugar Is Poison’ (Gift Article)
The health secretary is ratcheting up his campaign against the food industry.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
When things are stressful at work - this..👇 or punk music both work
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Jon Levy @jonlevybu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
We are celebrating #EarthDay by launching a new initiative called Environmental Health Works (#EHWorks), where universities across the US are coming together to share videos about how the environment affects our health (and how research contributes to that knowledge). Take a look at bit.ly/EHworks
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Environmental Health Works (#EHWorks) - YouTube
The air we breathe, water we drink, food we eat, and where we live, work, and play are all crucial determinants of our health and the health of our families....
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I love my #SF @baywheels.bsky.social membership - I can go anywhere in the city and my commute goes along one of the most beautiful bike rides anywhere.
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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
wow -
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 18/04/2025
The Trump admin plans to gut climate research at NOAA & NASA, following #Project2025 agenda. Proposed cuts include NOAA’s Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Division, all 16 cooperative institutes, 10 labs, 6 climate centers, NASA’s Goddard Space Institute budget, and $70M in grants—plus mass firings.
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Trump Administration’s Anti-Science Attacks on NOAA, What It Means for People Across US
YouTube video by Union of Concerned Scientists
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