The Wellcome Trust is donating £3.1m to enable the collection of safety data, overseen by the World Health Organisation.
DA collected and analysed the data overseen by PJL, and PJL wrote the first draft of this manuscript.
Their tasks were to review the relevant scientific evidence, examine available ambient concentration data, oversee the assignment of substances to specific risk-based categories, and then to use their collective judgment to refine these assignments as necessary.
LC and RW conceived of and designed this study; RW gained access to the data and oversaw data coding and data management.
MR conceived and designed the study, acquired the data, oversaw analysis and interpretation of data, and drafted and critically revised the manuscript.
AS conceived and performed experiments, analyzed data, oversaw research, and drafted/collated the final manuscript.
DG provided hospital service area and Medicare data, oversaw the GIS operations, and wrote parts of the manuscript.
CVV was Principal Investigator, participated in the design, data analyses, and interpretation of the data, oversaw the project, and wrote the manuscript.
TEW developed the Combo algorithm, designed the study, harvested the data, oversaw data processing with SemRep and the conventional genetics schema, performed the Combo, KLD, and RlogF summarizations, conducted the evaluation, and wrote the original manuscript.
The CTU data manager will oversee data tracking and data entry and initiate processes to resolve data queries where necessary.
