2008 Annual Meeting Highlights for the AMA House of Delegates (Chemicals Addressed)

2008 Annual Meeting Highlights for the AMA House of Delegates
Reference Committee on Amendmentsto the Constitution and Bylaws
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/471/refcomhighlights.pdf

 

"The AMA also will encourage the training of medical students, physicians and other health
professionals on the human health effects of toxic chemical exposures."

• The AMA adopted policy to recognize that insufficient
evidence exists to specifically restrict use of high fructose
corn syrup or other fructose-containing sweeteners in the
food supply, or to require the use of warning labels on
products containing high fructose corn syrup. The AMA
will encourage independent research—including epidemiological
studies—on the health effects of high fructose corn
syrup and other sweeteners, and on the evaluation of the
mechanism of action and relationship between fructose
dose and response. Additionally the AMA, in concert
with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, will recommend
that consumers limit the amount of added caloric
sweeteners in their diet.

• The AMA resolved to support efforts to ban the sale of
tobacco products and/or tobacco byproducts in retail outlets
housing store-based health clinics.

• The AMA resolved to call upon the federal government to
implement a comprehensive chemicals policy that is in line
with current scientific knowledge on human and environmental
health, and that requires a full evaluation of the
health impacts of both newly developed and industrial
chemicals now in use. The AMA also will support the
restructuring of the Toxic Substances Control Act to help
federal and state agencies reduce the use of industrial
chemicals, and efficiently assess the human and environmental
health hazards that result from them. In addition,
the AMA will support the Strategic Approach to
International Chemicals process leading to the sound
management of chemicals throughout their lifecycle so that
by 2020 chemicals are used and produced in ways that
minimize adverse effects on human health and the environment.
The AMA also will encourage the training
of medical students, physicians and other health
professionals on the human health effects of toxic
chemical exposures.

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