Closing remarks: Environmental health in the twenty-first century

It is a challenge to summarize a meeting of this nature. The presentations have been interesting and provocative. Some have looked forward, others have simply tried to take the next step, while still others have actually gone backwards to recount for us pertinent lessons of the past. The bulk of the presentations have discussed industries or agents. I will not try to recapitulate all of these interesting presentations, rather I will attempt to cross-cut by starting from the health problems and diseases caused by environmental agents.