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Letter: For the record

Published 27 October 2010

• Due to an editing error, we cited Tamara Galloway’s paper in Environmental Health Perspective (DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002367) as a source for the average exposure for BPA. In fact, this paper reports her team’s results for endocrine changes in men exposed to the chemical (23 October, p 26).

• The toxic red mud that escaped a Hungarian mine contained calcium hydroxide, not oxide as we stated (16 October, p 6).

• We placed New Orleans in entirely the wrong place in the map that accompanied our article on the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (9 October, p 8). The city is actually on the Mississippi river and much closer to the coast.

Issue no. 2784 published 30 October 2010

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