About the Authors

Maricel V. Maffini

drmvma@gmail.com

Affiliation Independent consultant, Germantown, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas G. Neltner

Affiliation Environmental Defense Fund, Washington DC, United States of America

Sarah Vogel

Affiliation Environmental Defense Fund, Washington DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

MVM is a paid consultant for Environmental Defense Fund. MVM and TGN authored the food additive petition to FDA asking the agency to revoke the approvals of perchlorate’s uses. The Environmental Defense Fund is a party in challenging FDA’s 2017 ruling on continuing uses of perchlorate in dry food packaging and handling equipment.