Table 5: Recommendations from Selected Meetings about MCS.

Recommendation

NRC

1991

AOEC

1991

ATSDR1

1993

ATSDR2

1994

CDHS

1994

NIEHS

1995

EOHSI
NIEHS3
1996
Basic epidemiology

X

X

X

X

X

  

X
Case-comparison studies

X

X

  

X

X

X

X
Definition
development

X

X

X

X

X

X

  
Challenge studies

X

X

X

    

X

X
Studies of exposed pop. incidents

X

X

    

X

  

X
Studies in ECU

X

X

X

      

X
Neurological research  

X

X

X

      
Olfactory research  

X

  

X

    

X
Study of clinical ecology hypotheses

X

X

        

X
Case registries  

X

X

        
Determine epi. of related conditions

X

    

X

      
Animal studies

X

          

X
Federal interactions    

X

        
Immune research      

X

      
Studies of therapies  

X

          
Inventory causative factors

X

            
1 Expert Panel Meeting;
2 Chemicals and Neurobiologic Sensitivity Meeting;
3 Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute/National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences Meeting.

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