Phillip Wexler, recipient of the SOT 2010 Public Communications Award, coordinated a panel discussion on “Poisons in the Press: Deciding for Yourself What’s ‘Safe’” on March 13, 2012, at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California. SOT 2004–2005 President Linda S. Birnbaum was among the panel participants. A podcast of this public outreach event is online at the Commonwealth Club website. The posted description of this podcast states: When the news media report on contamination in the air, drinking water, or food supply, the public understandably demands to know straight away, “Is it safe?” A distinguished panel of toxicologists and environmental journalists discussed why the questions defies straightforward answers, what’s keeping the public in the dark, and how citizens can make informed decisions on toxic risks in the absence of certainty.