Pesticides, Toxins, Endocrine Disruptors
2002

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2002

• Review of The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen - Pesticides and You Winter02

• Perchlorate Runoff Flows To Water Supply of Millions: Fuel of Cold War Defenses Ignites Health Controversy  - Wall Street Journal 16dec02

  • Debate Rages Over Safe Levels Of Toxin for Adults and Infants  -  Wall Street Journal 16dec02

• Evaluation of Take-Home Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure among Agricultural Workers and Their Children - Environmental Health Perspectives 10dec02

• Glyphosate Resistance Dominates Weed Science Meetings  - Successful Farming 6dec02

  • Glyphosate-Resistant Weeds: Will They Decrease Land Value? - Syngenta Dec02

• On Pests, Weeds And Terrorists: Weaving Harmony Through Diversity - Vandana Shiva / ZNet 1dec02

• Hazardous Contaminants at Inactive Military Ranges, Report - PEER 25nov02

• Where Computers Go to Die: Poor Cities in China Become Dumping Ground for E-Waste  - San Jose Mercury News 23nov02

• Dioxins in Babies at 85 Times Safety Limit  - The Independent (UK) 17nov02

• Canada's Ban of Cosmetic Pesticides Threatened Under NAFTA - EarthVision Environmental News 15nov02

• Growth Hormone Changed Older Bodies, for Better and Worse  - NY Times 13nov02

  • Growth Hormone and Sex Steroid Administration in Healthy Aged Women and Men (abstract) - JAMA v.288, n.18, 13nov02

• Frogs and Atrazine: Biologist Tyrone Hayes Links Pesticides to Amphibian Deformities  - SF Chronicle 4nov02

  • Field Study Finds Deformed Frogs: Research of Tyrone B. Hayes Links Atrazine -  SF Chronicle 31oct02

  • Atrazine-Induced Hermaphroditism at 0.1 PPB in American Frogs (Rana pipiens) - Environmental Health Perspectives 23oct02

• Formaldehyde (Gas) CAS No. 50-00-0 Reasonably Anticipated to be a Human Carcinogen - NTP 1nov02

• Estrogen Receptor Agonist Fate during Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment Processes - Environ. Sci. Technol. 1nov02

• Tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene) CAS No. 127-18-4 / reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen - Tenth Report on Carcinogens / National Toxicology Program 1nov02

• Developmental Neurotoxicity of Chlorpyrifos: What Is the Vulnerable Period? Environmental Health Perspectives  Nov02

• Sex Ratios of Children of Russian Pesticide Producers Exposed to Dioxin  -  Environmental Health Perspectives Nov02

• Dioxin: No Evidence of Dioxin Cancer Threshold - Environmental Health Perspectives (online) 25nov02

• Paracelsus Revisited - (parts 1 & 2) RACHEL'S 17oct02

• EPA to allow Pesticides Without Permits against West-Nile Virus - AP 11oct02

• Pentagon Admits Chemical Weapons Tests  - BBC 10oct02

• Tommy Thompson Stacks CDC For Lead Industry - Email 8oct02

  • Turning Lead Into Gold: How the Bush Administration is Poisoning the Lead Advisory Committee at the CDC - Rep. EDWARD J MARKEY (D-MA) 8oct02

• The Latest Hormone Science - Rachel's Environment & Health News (parts 1-4) 22aug02-3oct02

• School Pesticide Reduction Bill Passes NJ State  - Garden State EnviroNews 30sep02

• Stockpiles of Obsolete Pesticides in Africa Higher than Expected: 50,000 tonnes is revised to 120,000 tonnes  - FAO 18sep02

  • The Legacy of Obsolete Pesticide Stocks in Africa - FAO 2002

• Study Links Weed Killer to Reproductive Problems -  LA Times 17sep02

  • Developmental Toxicity of a Commercial Herbicide Mixture in Mice - Environmental Health Perspectives Nov02

• Coca Spraying Poses No Risk to Colombians, U.S. Declares -  NY Times 6sep02

  • Report on Issues Related to the Aerial Eradication of Illicit Coca in Colombia - (part 1) 
            Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (BINLFA) Sep02

  • Report on Issues Related to the Aerial Eradication of Illicit Coca in Colombia - (part 2) BINLFA Sep02

  • Response from EPA Assistant Administrator Johnson to Secretary of State, 19aug02

• Synergy: Combining Xenoestrogens at Levels below Individual No-Observed-Effect Concentrations Dramatically Enhances Steroid Hormone Action EHP Sep02

• Arsenic in Treated Wood Playsets Persists For Years  - AP 29aug02

• Brominated Flame Retardants Spark Arctic Alert  - BBC 27sep02

• Bayer Responsible for Poisoning Children in Peru - Victoriano Huarayo Torres / Letter to UN 27aug02

• CCA-Treated Wood and Down Syndrome - Laurette Janak / Submission to the EPA panel on child health risk from CCA wood 19aug02

• Polychloronaphthalenes and Other Dioxin-like Compounds in Arctic and Antarctic Marine Food Webs - Environ. Sci. Technol. 15aug02

• Atrazine: The herbicide atrazine: A growing problem Prof. Joe Cummins / Department of Biology / University of Western Ontario 14aug02

• West Nile Virus Has Health Officials on Defensive  -  Wall Street Journal 13aug02

• Polyacrylamide is added to soil and pesticides, it may be a major problem? - Prof. Joe Cummins / University of Western Ontario 8aug02

• Satiety Hormone may help Fight Obesity: Scientists -  Reuters 7aug02

• First phase of Ghana cocoa spraying campaign over  - Reuters 5aug02

• Roundup Ready Golf Course Grass Fight: Group wants to block sales of herbicide-resistant grass - SF Chronicle 2aug02

• West Nile virus kills 4 in Louisiana: 58 more infected with disease spread by mosquitoes The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) 2aug02

• Roundup/Acrylamide: Acrylamide In Cooked Foods: The Glyphosate Connection - Monsanto Poisoning Consumers with Pesticide Residues - ISIS Report 1aug02

  • Acrylamide in Food: Uncharted Territory -  Science v.297 5jul02

  • Acrylonitrile: Reasonably Anticipated to be a Human Carcinogen 9th Report on Carcinogens

  • Acrylamide in Food: Uncharted Territory -  Science v.297 5jul02

  • Environmental Degradation of Polyacrylamides -  Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 1jun97

• Sexual Maturation in Relation to Polychlorinated Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Sharpe and Skakkebaek's Hypothesis Revisited - EHP Aug02

• Dual Effects of Phytoestrogens Result in U-Shaped Dose-Response Curves - Environmental Health Perspectives Aug02

• CCA Wood: Links to information on CCA Wood -  CT Ag Exp Station, New Haven, CT 31jul02

• Household Products Disrupt Sex Genes in Fish Brains - Press Release / University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute 30jul02

• Dear EPA, "NOT Good Enough. Do It Again1" Review of 30 Extremely Dangerous Pesticides -  AP 25jul02

• Mosquito Repellent Discovered in Tomatoes: More Effective & Safer than DEET - Press Release 9jul02

• House Urges Delay of New TRI Lead Reporting Rule - AFIA  9jul02

• Pesticides and Flawed Frogs  -  SF Chronicle 9jul02

• Ad Hoc Committee for Clean Water: "Right To Farm" Law Has Environmental Impacts - SF Chronicle 9jul02

• Herbicide Ban Could Add Fuel to Western Wildfires -  Wall Street Journal 5jul02

• Quebec to Ban most non-farm Pesticides by 2005 - Reuters 5jul02

• Reproductive Endocrine Effects in Women with Occupational Fuel and Solvent Exposures - Environmental Health Perspectives Aug02

• Sexual Maturation in Relation to Polychlorinated Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Abstract) - Environmental Health Perspectives Aug02

• Study shows repellents with DEET most effective against mosquito bites?  -  AP 3jul02

• City of Seattle Resolution on Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic Chemicals (PBTs) 2jul02

• Household Products Disrupt Sex Genes in Fish Brains -  University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute 30jul02

• Dry Cleaners: Apartment Residents' and Day Care Workers' Exposures to Tetrachloroethylene and Deficits in Visual Contrast Sensitivity - (abstract) Environmental Health Perspectives 1jul02

• History Made: Terminix Tells the Truth  -  AP 28jun02

• Determination of the estrogenic potency of phyto- and synthetic estrogens using in vitro bioassays  - Natural and Synthetic Estrogens Aspects of the Cellular and Molecular Activity 2002

• Ban Asbestos in America Act (S.2641) - US Senator Patty Murray / Congressional Record  18jun02

• Estrogen effect on fish: Wild Fathead Minnows from a Lake Experimentally Treated with the Synthetic Estrogen, Ethynylestradiol - Water Qual. Res. J. Canada, Jul02

• IPM: Pest Management Practices: A Survey of Public School Districts in New York State - (Exec. Summ.) New York State IPM Program Jun02

• Sailors Sprayed With Nerve Gas in Cold War Test, Pentagon Says -  NY Times 24may02

• EPA says biggest polluters are hard-rock mining companies and coal-burning power plants -  AP 24may02

• Aventis moves to Stop Release of Pesticide Details -  Financial Times (UK) 16may02

• Poison For Profit -  redflagsweekly.com 15may02

• EPA to release first-ever measurement of Dioxins - Reuters 13may02

• Pesticides Concern for Homeowners -  UPI 1may02

• California State PTA Resolution on Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxins (PBTs) May02

• Bisphenol A Induces Inappropriate Androgen Receptor Activation and Mitogenesis in Prostatic Adenocarcinoma Cells -  · (abstract) Mol. Can.Ther.  May02

• Poisoning for Dollars -  Time 22apr02

• Hidden Pesticide Hazards Lurk in Newly Built Homes - Beyond Pesticides/NCAMP 17apr02

• Atrazine Mutates Frogs: Study at UC Berkeley - AP 16apr02

• Something from “nothing” - eight weak estrogenic chemicals combined at concentrations below NOEC’s produce significant mixture effects Env. Sc.Tech 11apr02

• Pesticide Companies Prepare New Disinformation Campaign -  Greenwire 11apr02

• Pesticide Leaves Immune System Helpless -  HealthScoutNews 8apr02

• Early Puberty Linked to Shampoos Containing Estrogen -  New Scientist 3apr02

• Methyl Isocyanate (Metil Isocianato) CAS# 624-83-9 ToxFAQs™ / Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) 1apr2002

• Persistent Organic Pollutants in Poland: Study on Human Breast Milk  - Waste Prevention Association "3R" Kraków Apr02

• Chemical Cocktails make a Potent Mix - New Scientist 30mar02

• Oil Drilling has Damaging Effect on Sea Fish Ability to Reproduce  - Independent (UK) 22mar02

• Dioxin Discovery in Livestock Feed Prompts Probe AP 20mar02

• Chromium Isotopes and the Fate of Hexavalent Chromium in the Environment  - Science 15mar02

• Roundup Provokes Cell Division Dysfunction at the Level of CDK1/Cyclin B Activation - Chem Res Toxicol 15(3):326-31 Mar02

• Mercury Poisoning: The Hidden Danger in Your Home - Dan Fagin / Family Circle Magazine Mar02

• Too Much Roundup: The Plan Colombia Vote - The Winona LaDuke Reader Mar02

• Pest Control Industry Praised In Nationally Syndicated Column  - Pest Control Technology magazine 13feb02

• Pesticide Contamination of Waters and Solutions to Protect Pacific Salmon (Executive Summary) - NCAP 5feb02

• Understanding the Human Health Effects of Chemical Mixtures (abstract) - Environmental Health Perspectives Supplements v.110, n.1, Feb02

• PCP Treated wood in livestock facilities: relationships among residues of pentachlorophenol, dioxins, and furans in wood and beef Env. Pollut. Feb02

• Men with high PCB levels more likely to father boys - MSU Press Release 28jan02

  • Parental Concentration of DDE and PCBs in Michigan Fish Eaters and Sex Ratio in Offspring - Journal of Occupational Medicine  Jan02

• Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity  - EPA Listed as of 25jan02

• Question of the Violation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in any Part of the World - Economic and Social Council / United Nations 24jan02

• Getting on our nerves: Soap & Water Works Better -  E Magazine 18jan02

• Spraying Of Roundup In Colombia: Practice A Health Hazard And Waste Of Tax-Payers’ Money - 60 Minutes: Herbicide Problems - CBS 14jan02

• Toxic Wastes Found in Nepal Severe Danger to Drinking Water for Kathmandu Press Release 14jan02

• Hormone-Containing Hair Product Use in Prepubertal Children Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med Jan02

• Hazards of CCA Treated Wood Products: Toxicological Hazards of CCA - BANCCA