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Behavioral teratogenesis is a well-established phenomenon in experimental animals (Barlow & Sullivan, 1975; Hutchings, 1983; Vorhees & Butcher, 1982). This fact alone should probably have been enough to trigger government agencies responsible for the protection of public health and the environment to incorporate this new aspect of risk into regulations for safety assessment. Unfortunately, the world seldom operates so simply. Health and environmental protection agencies seldom react to evidence derived exclusively from animal research, and behavioral teratology received modest attention until several human behavioral teratogens were identified (Hattan, Henry, Montgomery, Bleiberg, Rulis, & Bolger, 1983). This identification began with prenatal methylmercury poisoning in congenital Minamata disease (Reuhl & Chang, 1979; Takeuchi, Eto, & Eto, 1979), followed by the fetal alcohol syndrome (Jones & Smith, 1973; Jones, Smith, Ulleland, & Streissguth, 1973), the fetal hydantoin syndrome (Hanson & Smith, 1975), the fetal trimethadione syndrome (Feldman, Weaver, & Lovrien, 1977; German, Kowal, & Ehlers, 1970; Zackai, Mellman, Neiderer, & Hanson, 1975), and the neonatal withdrawal and longer-term effects produced by prenatal narcotic addiction (Kandall, 1977; Kandall, Albin, Gartner, Lee, Eidelman, & Lowinson, 1977; Lodge, 1977; Wilson, Desmond, & Verniaud, 1973).
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Vorhees, C.V. (1986). Comparison and Critique of Government Regulations for Behavioral Teratology. In: Riley, E.P., Vorhees, C.V. (eds) Handbook of Behavioral Teratology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2189-7_3
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