Pesticides, Toxins, Endocrine Disruptors
2003

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• Solutia PCBs: Anniston, Alabama Locals Likely Breathing PCBs - AP 29dec03
• RALGRO* Implant (Growth Hormone Implants) advertising 28dec03
  • Tamoxifen Prevents Induction of Hepatic Neoplasia by Zeranol, an Estrogenic Food Contaminant - Proc Natl Acad Sci 1feb92
  • Influence of Zeranol treatment on the tissue specific co-expression of estrogen receptors (ER) in various tissues - Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology 2000
• Compost Rules Draw Scrutiny: Milwaukie Compost-Maker Cited for Mixing Pressure-Treated Wood - The Oregonian 22dec03
• Dow Subsidiary to Pay $2 Million for Making False Safety Claims in Pesticide Ads -  State of New York Attorney General 15dec03
  • Dow AgroScieneces Consent Order - Hon. Joan A Madden / Supreme Court, State of New York 12dce03
  • Dow's False Pesticide Safety Claims Cost it $2M Fine -  AP 16dec03
• Feedlot Waste Alters Fish Characteristics: Study Discovers Hormonal Changes -  LA Times 14dec03
• GM Crops Increase Pesticide Use -  ISIS 11dec03
• GM Seeds, Generic Glyphosate taking a bigger bite out of major crop protection chemical markets - PRNewswire 10dec03
• Feedlot Effluent: Endocrine Disrupting Effects of Cattle Feedlot Effluent on an Aquatic Sentinel Species, the Flathead Minnow - Environmental Health Perspectives 1dec03
• Effect of Endosulfan on Male Reproductive Development - Environmental Health Perspectives Dec03
• Get Plastic Out Of Your Diet - Paul Goettlich 16nov03
• The Story of Syngenta & Tyrone Hayes at UC Berkeley: Syngenta tried to BURY HIM and then BUY HIM - Chronicle of Higher Education 31oct03
• UK Study Finds New Risks in Genetically Engineered Crops - IPS Columnist Service 28oct03
• Banning GM Crops Not Enough to Save Wildlife -  New Scientist 15oct03

• Agent Orange: "Battle's Poison Cloud" Screened in London - Vietnamese News Agency 7oct03

• N.H. Sues 22 Oil Companies Over Gasoline Additive MTBE -  AP 6oct03

• Law on Pesticides Reinterpreted: Government Alters Policy in Effort to Protect Manufacturers -  USA Today 6oct03

• Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)  'The New Thalidomide' -  The Independent (UK) 4oct03

• Perchlorate Mystery Surfaces in Texas: 30,000 square miles in western Texas - Environmental Science and Technology 2oct03

• Origins of Dementia - Sandra Steingraber, PhD / Rachel's Environment & Health News 29sep03

• Dow Faces Suit Over South African Pollution: Farmers Claim Herbicides Destroyed Land, Lawyer Says -  Bloomberg News 23sep03
• U.N. Sees Progress in U.S. Effort on Colombian Coca -  NY Times 18sep03
• Toxic Chemicals Abundant in Homes -  Cape Cod Times 15sep03
• Phthalates, Alkylphenols, Pesticides, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, and Other Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds in Indoor Air and Dust - Env. Sci. Tech 13sep03
• Ethylene Glycol Ethers: Early Warnings -  New York Times 12sep03
• Four Journalists, University of the Philippines Professor Arrested for Libel: Publication on Banana Pesticides -  Manila Times 10sep03
• Research Lab Falsified Tests on Toxins - NY Times 6sep03
• Representative David R. Obey: Senior House Democrat Urges Top Defense Hands to Resign - NY Times 6sep03
• Researchers Find Handling Pesticides May Reduce Chances of Conception - Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter (Wisconsin) 4sep03
• Multiple Pesticides: Integrative assessment of multiple pesticides as risk factors for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma among men -  Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1sep03
• Aircraft De-Icer Endocrine Disruptor - Environmental Science and Technology 28aug03
• Destroying Chemical Weapons: Army's Problem-Plagued Program More Costly than Originally Planned -  Chemical & Engineering News 26aug03

• MCS and scented products: Julianna Martin, 25, Syracuse, N.Y.  Interview with person with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) - NY Times 24aug03

• Solutia, Monsanto Agree to Pay $600 Million to Settle PCB Claims -  Wall Street Journal 21aug03
• Deal Reached in PCB Trials -  Anniston Star 21aug03
• Gulf War Veterans Sue Corporations Over Contamination - AP 19aug03
• Crippling Colas -  The Tribune (Chandigarh, India) 16aug03
• Roundup: Weedkiller May Encourage Blight -  New Scientist 14aug03
• Antibiotics: WHO Urges End to Use of Antibiotics for Animal Growth - Washington Post 13aug03
• Copper May Play a Role in Alzheimer's  - Reuters 12aug03
• Nicaraguan Banana Workers May Finally Get Justice  - InTheseTimes 11aug03
• Avoid CCA-Treated [Pressure-Treated] Wood Picnic Tables - Knight-Ridder 10aug03

• White House Sway Is Seen in E.P.A. Response to 9/11  - NY Times 9aug03

• Coke, Pepsi Products Contain Pesticides - AP 5aug03
• Organophosphorus Ester-Induced Chronic Neurotoxicity - Abou-Donia / Archives of Environmental Health 1aug03
• Cadmium mimics the in vivo effects of estrogen in the uterus and mammary gland - Nature Medicine Aug03
• Food as a Source of Dioxin Exposure in the Residents of Bien Hoa City, Vietnam - Journal of of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Aug03
• Pacific oysters: Gender-Bender Threat to Marine Life  - BBC News 17jul03
• Monsanto Sues Dairy in Maine Over Label's Remarks on Hormones  - NY Times 12jul03
• Mercury: UN Committee Recommends New Dietary Intake Limits for Mercury - Press Release / WHO 27jun03
• Mad Cow Disease: Link to OG Pesticides: The Disease Hits Canada. Is the U.S. next? - Pesticides and You Summer 03
• Flight Records Reveal Full Extent of Agent Orange Contamination in Vietnam - News / Nature 17apr03
• E.P.A. Begins Cleanup at 10 Toxic Waste Sites; 10 Others Will Wait - AP 17jul03
• More Agent Orange Sprayed in Vietnam Than Previously Revealed - Chemical and Engineering News 14jul03
• Birth Defects Higher in Wheat Areas - AP 11jul03
• Dirty Dozen: Poisoning the Polar Bear: Humans Leave Toxic Footprint in Remote Area - Los Angeles Times 5jul03
• U.S. Is Urged by Panel to Tell Women About Dioxins  - NY Times 2jul03
           Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds in the Food Supply: Strategies to Decrease Exposure - National Academies 1jul03
  • Report Brief
  • Executive Summary & Introduction
• Dioxin: No Evidence of Dioxin Cancer Threshold - Environmental Health Perspectives Jul03
• Bhopal: After 18 Years, India Wants Anderson - Statesman (Kolkata, India) 28jun03

• Agent Orange: Haines-to-Fairbanks Military Oil Pipeline Sprayed with Agent Orange - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Alaska) 22jun03

• Sarin vapor: Long-term, low-level exposure of guinea pigs and marmosets to sarin vapor in air: lowest observable effect level - Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 15jun03

• EPA Faults Atrazine: Popular Pesticide Faulted for Frogs' Sexual Abnormalities  - NY Times 19jun03

• Defective Sperm, Pesticide Tie Found  - LA Times 18jun03

• US Court Lifts Ban on Human Tests of Pesticides - Reuters 5jun03

• Synthetic Estrogen: Short-Term Exposure to 17α-Ethynylestrodiol Decreases the Fertility of Sexually Maturing Male Rainbow Trout - Env.Tox. & Chem.  Jun03

• Swimming Pool Use Linked to Asthma Rise - The Australian (AFP) 29may03

• Roundup®: The Product of el Diablo - Paul Goettlich 25may03

• Is Organic Shampoo Chemistry or Botany? - NY Times 18may03

• Pesticides Linked to Gulf War Syndrome and ADHD - ENS 17mar03

• Monsanto Probed as Anticompetitive in Herbicide Industry - Wall Street Journal 17mar03

• Roundup/Glyphosate: Danish Drinking Water Contaminated by Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide  - Politiken (Denmark) 10may03

• Nitrate Eyed as Endocrine Disrupter  - Environmental Science & Technology 1may03

• Common Household Chemicals Affect Algae  - Environmental Science & Technology 1may03

• Roundup/Glyphosate: The teratogenic potential of the herbicide glyphosate-Roundup® in Wistar rats Toxicology Letters v.142, i.1-2, 30apr03

• EPA Bans Staff From Discussing Issue of Perchlorate Pollution  - Wall Street Journal 28apr03

• Oyster Growers to Phase Out a Pesticide: Carbaryl - Press Release 28apr03

• Pesticides on Tobacco - Report to the Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives / GAO 24apr2003

• The Forgotten Story of Agent Orange  - AgBioIndia 15apr03

• The effects of acute pesticide exposure on neuroblastoma cells chronically exposed to diazinon - Toxicology v.185, i.1-2, 14mar03

• Triclosan: Sunlight Converts Common Antibacterial to Dioxin  - AScribe Newswire 14apr03

• Neuropsychiatric Evaluation in Subjects Chronically Exposed to Organophosphate Pesticides (Abstract) - Toxicological Sciences Apr03

• Insects Thrive on GM 'Pest-Killing' Crops  - The Independent (UK) 30mar03

• Chlorination by-Products in Drinking Water and Menstrual Cycle Function  - Environmental Health Perspectives 25mar03

• Monsanto Antitrust Probe Opened by Justice Department - Wall Street Journal  14mar03

• Impasse Termite Blocker:  Receives EPA Registration Pest Control Technology  - Press Release (plus many resources) 4mar03

• Acute Pesticide-Related Illnesses Among Working Youths, 1988–1999 - American Journal of Public Health Apr03

• Better Living Through Chemistry: DDT could save millions of Africans from dying of malaria if only environmentalists would let it - Washington Monthly Mar03

• Children: Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure of Urban and Suburban Preschool Children with Organic and Conventional Diets - EHP Mar03

• Intersex Swordfish: Evidence of a high percentage of intersex in the Mediterranean swordfish (Xiphias gladius L.) - Marine Pollution Bulletin Mar03

• Philippines: Luzon Rice Farmers go Clean and Green - IRRI Mar03

• Kids and Chemicals: What do our choices about toxins mean for our children? - Dr. Elizabeth Guillette / Yes! Spring 2003

• Dioxin Contamination in US Feed Supplement sent to Canada  - The Producer 24feb03

• Roundup Unready - NY Times Editorial/Op-Ed 19feb03

• Dangerous Levels of Toxins Miscalculated HELEN R PILCHER / Nature 13feb03

• Perfume: What the Nose Knows  - MSNBC 12feb03

• Methyl Bromide:  EPA seeks delay in 2005 UN methyl bromide ban - Reuters 7feb03

• PCBs: Arctic Faces Toxic Time Bomb - New Scientist 3feb03

• DDT Still Found in Teens Even Though Banned 30 Years Ago  - The Dallas Morning News 1feb03

• Methyl Bromide: Bush Seeks Waivers to Pesticide Ban - NY Times 30jan03

• Agent Orange Associated with Chronic Leukemia (CLL): Institute of Medicine Report NAS/IOM PRESS RELEASE 23jan03

• Private Labs Fake Environmental Tests  - AP 22jan03

• Can Pesticide Tests on Humans Ever Meet Standards for Ethics?  - Wall Street Journal 17jan03

• Roundup: Widely Used Crop Herbicide Is Losing Weed Resistance - Andrew Pollack/ NY Times 14jan03

• Testing Pesticides on Human: Debate Erupts Over Testing Pesticides on Humans -  NY Times 9jan03

• Review of The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen - Pesticides and You Winter03

• Accountability in the Pesticide Industry International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health Jan/Mar03