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2001

• Lake Apopka Muck farms caused lupus - Sentinel 28dec01

• Clopyralid by Dow AgroSciences Found in Composted Grass in Several States  - LA Times 27dec01

• Canada's Regulatory Proposal PRO2001-02, A proposal to make Canada's pesticide regulation modeled after the US (NAFTA)  -  Comments by Paul Goettlich 9dec01

• Endocrine disrupters and human health - Editorial/British Medical Journal 323:1317-1318 8dec01

• U.S. Will Use Once-Banned Human Tests Pesticides: EPA says it will accept industry data - LA Times 27nov01

• Florida Health Official  Does Job So Well That He's Fired and Forcibly Removed  -  TomPaine.com 16nov01

• Chiquita: Yes, We Have No Profits  -  Fortune 26nov01

• Warren Porter Interviewed - Wisconsin Public Television 13nov01

• Exposure to PCBs and quality of the home environment: effects on psychodevelopment in early childhood  -  Lancet 10nov01

• Pesticide Suicides in China Kill 125,000 Annually  - Reuters 1nov01

• Animal Growth Hormone: The Fate of Trenbolone Acetate and Melengestrol Acetate after Application as Growth Promoters in Cattle - Environmental Health Perspectives  1nov01

• Toxic-fertilizer rules criticized at EPA hearings - Seattle Times 30nov01

• Bayer Pesticides in Toxic Dump in Nepal  - CBG 26oct01

• Pesticides Sent as Aid to Nepal Now Toxic Waste  - ENS 18oct01

• Health Hazards Of Pressure-Treated Wood  - CBO Morning Radio Transcript 16oct01

• Polybromo Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) Our bodies are accumulating Fire Retardants from sofas, computers, and television sets -  Science News 13oct01

• Minimata Bay Mercury Victims Could Double  - (with bibliography) AP 10oct01

• Military Readiness vs. the Environment  -  Christian Science Monitor 4oct01

• Dioxin damage Scientists urge study of the effects of Agent Orange -  USVFA 4oct01

• Atrazine Banned by France  - Reuters 2oct01

• Glyphosate (aka Roundup)  in cereals produced in Denmark  - Food Additives and Contaminants v.18, n.10 Oct01

• Paracelsus--Dose Response in the Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology / Academic Press Oct01

• Flawed Tests Hide Pesticide Danger  - Ottawa Citizen 30sep01

• Court Says EPA Must Meet Legal Obligation to Regulate Pesticides  -  Press Release 27sep01

• Surviving the Sharpshooter; Southern California's Vineyards Hang On  - Wine Spectator 15sep01

• "Gender-Bending" Chemicals Disrupt Plants Too  - New Scientist 14sep01

• Humans as the World's Greatest Evolutionary Force Stephen R. Palumbi / Science 7sep01

• Aventis Takes Legal Action Vs UK Govt Over Pesticide  - Dow Jones Newswires 7sep01

• EU Lawmakers Vote Broad Fire Retardant Ban - ENS 6sep01

• UK Consumer Magazine "Which?" Warns Of Pesticide Residues In Food - Dow Jones Newswires 6sep01

• New Anthrax Strain being developed by Pentagon  -  AP 5sep01

• US Forest Service Banned From Using Herbicide in Tahoe National Forest  - ENS 4sep01

• Cows Dropping Poisonous Poop  - Newswires 2sep01

• Court Orders Limited Use of Pesticide near Schools -  San Jose Mercury News 1sep01

• PCBs: Effects of polychlorinated biphenyls on the nervous system - Toxicol Ind Health 16(7-8):305-33 Sep01

• PCDDs, PCDFs, and Dioxin-like PCBs in Humans and Wildlife: Samples from India Sep01

• The Lowdown on Low-Dose Endocrine Disruptors - Environmental Health Perspectives Sep01

• Two Steps Forward, One Step Back Congress Compromises On Children’s Health  -  E Magazine v.7, n.5 Sep/Oct01

• Sludge - New Data Back Up Sludge Debate  -  Environmental Health Perspectives v.109, n.9, Sep01

• Effect of DES on cell proliferation and expression of epidermal growth factor in the developing female rat reproductive tract - J. Endo.  Sep01

• Early childhood determinants of organochlorine concentrations in school-aged children - (abstract) Pediatr Res Sep01

• School-Based Dental Sealant Programs - Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report / CD 50(34);736-8 31aug01 

• Pesticides In UK Water Exceed European Limits - Dow Jones Newswires 30aug01

• Cloud of Despair in Bhopal  - LA Times 30aug01

• Synergistic Effects of Chemicals in the Nervous System - Dr. Abou-Donia / CIIN MCS Conference Lecture 27aug01

• Organophosphate Poisoning COVER-UP  - Guardian 25aug01

• Fertilizer Survey Points Out Problems for Fertilizer Industry  - Indianapolis Star 24aug01

• S.C. Johnson Fined $950,000 for Illegally Distributing Unsafe Roach Baits Largest Pesticide Penalty in NY State History - Press Release 22aug01

• Roundup Anti-Drug Herbicide on Trial  - Washington Post 22aug01

• Court OKs Lawsuits over Home Bug Sprays  - SF Chronicle 15aug01

• JT Eaton Fakes Pesticide Test Results  - Press Advisory 13aug01

• DuPont Ordered to Pay Damages Of $78.3 Million in Benlate Case  -  Wall Street Journal 13aug01

• DuPont must pay $29.5 million to Costa Rican nurseries  - AP 10aug01

• Ecological Society of America Berates Pesticides - BioMedNet News 6aug01

• Colombian Judge Allows Drug Spraying To Resume AP 6aug01

• EU Environment Council: No hazardous chemicals after 2020  - Swedish Environmental Protection Agency 4aug01

• Studies Find How Bugs Beat Leading Safe Pesticide  - Reuters 3aug01

• Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) Asks for Release of EPA Reevaluation of Dioxin  - Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) 2aug01

• Monsanto: A Weed Killer Is a Block to Build On  - New York Times 2aug01

• Impaired Maturation, Fertilization, and Embryonic Development of Porcine Oocytes Following Exposure to Organochlorine Mixture - Biology of Reproduction 1aug01

• Colombians Protest Fumigation  -  Washington Post 1aug01

• Agricultural Pesticides: Management Improvements Needed to Further Promote Integrated Pest Management - GAO Aug01

• Pondering on Pesticides Long-Term Low Levels Impair Thinking -  Environmental Health Perspectives Aug01

• Human Guinea Pigs in England Tested American Pesticides - BBC 30jul01

• $4 M Research to Improve Testing Chemicals for Potential Human Developmental & Reproductive Effects  - NIEHS Press Release 26jul01

• Pesticides Make Life Dangerous: According to Scientists  - Grand Rapids Press 23jul01

• Woman Injured by Pesticides Shares Wisdom as GOP Attempts to Conceal Pesticides in Schools  - Bunny Snow 20jul01

• Monsanto Mercury and Lead Contamination Gets Scrutiny After 30 Years  -   Anniston Star (AL) 20jul01

• Accumulating Teflon Chemical Raises Environmental Concern  -  Washington Post 19jul01

• Mfume Calls Lead Paint Poisoning "The Silent Epidemic"  - NAACP Press Release 17jul01

• Poisoning of Rabbits Roils Leisure World  -  LA Times 14jul01

• PBDEs - Flame Retardants: Persistent pollutants in land-applied sludges  - Nature v.412 12jul01

• Association between maternal serum concentration of the DDT metabolite DDE and preterm and small-for-gestational-age babies at birth -  Lancet 14jul01

• Dunsmuir, 10 years later Upper Sacramento River alive after deadly pesticide spill  -  SF Chronicle 9jul01

• Dangerous Ground, Leftover bombs, Chemical Contamination Left by U.S. Bases in Philippines  - SF Chronicle 5jul01

• Vietnam agrees to urgent dioxin survey- U.S. expert Arnold Schecter  - Reuters 2jul01

• Effects of Acute Exposure to a Commercial Formulation of Glyphosate on the Tadpoles of Two Species of Anurans - Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. Jul/Aug01

• Voluntary Children's Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP) Chemicals To Be Evaluated For Risks To Children - US Newswire 29jun01

• $6.5m Fruitgrowers Chemical Company toxic site clean-up to start soon  - Sheriie Smith / ? 29jun01

• Aventis Attempts to Stop FOE Getting GM Pesticide Safety Information  - FOE Press Release 29jun01

• Hudson, Quebec Pesticide Ban Upheld by Supreme Court  -  Spraytech v. Hudson (Town)  -  Supreme Court of Canada 28jun01

• How New York's Mosquito Spray Campaign Sprayed A Deadly Neurotoxin  - Village Voice 18jul01

• Baygon Linked to Child Leukemia  - Scotland on Sunday 6jun01

• Tenth Anniversary of disastrous explosion at Anaversa plant  - Panups 6jun01

• Exposure to Disinfection By-products in Women of Reproductive Age  -  Environmental Health Perspectives Jun01

• Pesticide Contamination of Milk - Dairy Indemnity Program - Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Programs (CFDA) Jun01

• Time to Rethink Dose: Case for Combining Cancer and Birth and Developmental Defects  - Editorial/ Environmental Health Perspectives Jun01

• Head Lice/Louse Last Call for Lindane  - Environmental Health Perspectives Jun01

• Glufosinate Ammonium induces Convulsion through N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in mice -  Neurosci Lett May01

• Chromated Copper Arsenicals (CCA) and Its Use as a Wood Preservative  - USEPA 24may01

• POPs -  90 nations sign on to deal banning ``dirty dozen'' of toxins   - AP 23may01

• Endocrine Disruptors may be dangerous even at minute levels EPA Says  -  HealthScout Reporter 16may01

• POPs - Major Provisions of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants  - Elena Sobakina / UNEP Chemicals 15may0

• EDs - Final Report of the Endocrine Disruptors Low-Dose Peer Review  - NIEHS, NIH, NTP 14may01

• Agent Orange:  Recent Dioxin Contamination From Agent Orange in Residents of a Southern Vietnam City - JOEM  May01

  • Dioxin in Vietnam -- The Ongoing Saga of Exposure - JOEM May01

• Sexual Precocity - Evidence of Previous Exposure to Organochlorine Pesticides  - Human Reproduction May01

• Synthetics, Pesticides Pose Grave Dangers  - Paul Goettlich rev.11may01

• DuPont Withdraws Benlate from Market  - PANNA 7may01

• Recent Dioxin Contamination From Agent Orange in Residents of a Southern Vietnam City  -  A. Schecter/Jour.Occ.Med May01

• Science is changing! Chemicals to be tested in combinations - Erasing Borders Between Scientific Disciplines  - Fertility and Sterility May01

• Altered prostate growth and sperm production in male mice exposed prenatally estradiol - Hum Reprod May01

• Phthalates: Baby Ills from Beauty Aids? - Environmental Health Perspectives v.109, n.5, May01

• Mindfully.org Reader Commentary on Lawn Care Pesticides with mindfully.org response -  Tom Barrett  27apr01

• Lindane in Albania - Children Play with Death in Toxic Wasteland: UN Staff  Shocked -  Guardian 27apr01

• Pesticides Won't Stop 'em  - SF Chronicle 25apr01

• Monsanto subsidiary Solutia to pay $40 million in toxicity suit in Alabama  - AP 25apr01

• Agent Orange may have killed GIs' kids Evidence of link to fatal type of leukemia - Washington Post 20apr01

• EPA's Whitman asked to Immediately Suspend Registration of Wood Preservatives  - Press Release 19apr01

• Bush to Adopt Clinton's Lead Disclosure Rules -  Washington Post 17apr01

• Dioxin Report By EPA On Hold - Industries Oppose Finding of Cancer Link, Urge Delay  - Washington Post 12apr01

• The Next Victim in Bush's War on the Environment - JP Myers and LA Guide / New Jersey Star Ledger 11apr01

• Defining the Impact of Weakly Estrogenic Chemicals on the Action of Steroidal Estrogens - Toxicological Sciences (Abstract) Apr01

• Vinod Prakash Sharma winner of the 2001 Green Scientist  -  DTE & CSE Press Release 31mar01

• CDC Finds Phthalates in Americans What's your poison? - The Economist (UK) 31mar01

• NoSpray Lawsuit Moves Into High Gear / Funds Desperately Needed! 27mar01

• Scientists unlock mystery of Mercury's Harmful Effects  -  Toronto Globe & Mail 27mar01

• Environmental Defense Criticizes American Chemistry Council Appearance On PBS Toxics Safety Program - ED 27mar01

• PBS: Trade Secrets you were never supposed to see! - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D. / Cancer Prevention Coalition 23mar01

• High Arsenic Levels Found in Parks from Pressure-Treated Wood Playground Equipments  - AP 22mar01

• Arsenic Alters the Function of the Glucocorticoid Receptor as a Transcription Factor (abstract) - Environmental Health Perspectives Mar01

• California AB 498 targets Persistent, Bioaccumulative Toxins (PBTs)  - Assembly Member Wilma Chan 21feb01

• 2,4-D Dioxin Contamination - EXTOXNET, Environmental Health Perspectives, and EPA links 2,4-D 2apr01

• GAO Cites Need for State Pesticide Illness Monitoring Systems  - Beyond Pesticides 21mar01

• Arsenic Pollution Disrupts Hormones - Science News 17mar01

• Global Agrochemical Sales Down  - PAN 16mar01

• Four More Substances Listed  - Endocrine Disruptor Check Widened - Japan Times 15mar01

• Ex-workers in Nicaraguan Banana Fields Sue Chiquita and Standard Fruit (Dole Fresh Fruit Co.) Dow, Occidental,  Shell Oil  -  SFC 15mar01

• Bay Keepers and CBE Sue CA Over Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Dioxin Discharge Permit  -  SFC 14mar01

• Dioxin Study is a Political Hot Potato for EPA: Dioxin Now Known Human Carcinogen  -  Mark Hertsgaard / SFC 12mar01

• Arsenic: The Poison in Your Back Yard -  St. Petersburg Times 11mar01

• DEHP - Di-2-Ethylhexyl Phthalate in PVC Medical Devices - (see plastics index page)  Lowell Center for Sustainable Production  (undated)

• Arsenic is an Endocrine Disruptor  - ENN 5mar01

• Neurotoxicants Threaten Childhood Development  -  Psychiatric Times Mar01

• Organophosphate Pesticides: National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals  - CDC Mar01 

• Biological Monitoring Survey of Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure among Pre-school Children in the Seattle Metropolitan Area - EHP Mar01

• Dioxin-Like Compounds Identification - Database of Sources of Environmental Releases in the US 1987 and 1995 EPA/600/C-01/012 Mar01

• Crayons -  Asbestos confusion exposing millions - Seattle-Post-Intelligencer 28feb01

• Pesticide Firms Seek EPA Intervention  -  Washington Post 27feb01

• Flame retardant found in Great Lakes salmon  -  ENN 27feb01

• New Marin Subdivision Gets MTBE Warning Sales brisk despite disclosure  -  SFC  25feb01

• Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health and a New Environmental Strategy by Joe Thornton  - Book Review by BMJ  24feb01

• Orcas in Puget Sound Contaminated by PCBs  - LA Times 16feb01

• Candles With Lead-containing Wicks Banned by US Consumer Product Safety Commission  - CNN 14feb01

• EU seeks to clear up chemical fears -  AP 13feb01

• Agricultural pesticides linked to fetal death  -  Reuters Health 13feb01

• Plastics possible culprits in early puberty  -  Plastics News 12feb01

• Modernization of EU Chemicals Legislation - Preventive Health and Environmental Protection - (German) Fed. Env. Ministry 7feb01

• IDRC Study Shows High Exposure to Insecticides Affects Mental Capacity  - Learning Disabilities Association of Canada 6feb01

• Predator-induced stress makes the pesticide carbaryl more deadly to gray treefrog tadpoles (Hyla versicolor) - PNAS 27feb01

• Estrogenic Activity of Phenolic Additives Determined By an In Vitro Yeast Bioassay  (Abstract)  - EHP  Feb01

• Dietary Exposure to Selected Pesticides  (Abstract) - EHP Feb01

• 30% of Pesticides Marketed in Developing Countries are Serious Threat to Health and Environment  - FAO/WHO 1feb01

• Plastic resin pellets as a transport medium for toxic chemicals in the marine environment .-  Environmental Science and Technology 1feb01

• PBDE Flame Retardants Released by Recycling Old Computers are Health Hazard  - Mindfully.org 1feb01

• Everglades Mercury Debate  - Environmental Science and Technology 1feb01

• Triclosan offers protection against blood stages of Malaria by inhibiting enoyl-ACP reductase of Plasmodium falciparum Nature Medicine Feb01

  • Triclosan - New Products Containing Triclosan Feared Breeding Tougher Germs  - AP 07aug98

  • Triclosan targets lipid synthesis  -  Nature 6aug98

  • Triclosan - Polychlorinated Dioxins and Furans in your Toothpaste ?  - J. Menoutis, Ph.D., F.A.I.C, C.P.C and A. I. Parisi-Menoutis / Quantex Laboratories

• •  What You Need to Know About CCA Pressure-Treated Wood - CT Dept. Pub. Health Feb01

• Reservoir Pollution First of its Kind  -  The Advertiser (Australia) 29jan01

• Incinerator Ash from Philadelphia Made its Way Around the Caribbean Could Find Home in South Florida  - AP 27jan01

• EPA Reaches Agreement in Principle with NRDC  - 26jan01

• Mothball Ingredient Causes Cancer, National Toxicology Program Says  - Reuters 26jan01

• Skeeter Spray Nightmare NYC poisoned spray workers  -  NY Daily News 24jan01 

• Deformed Frog Research Halted by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency:  Incomplete Project Desperately Needed  - AP 22jan01

• S.F., Oakland Join Suit Over Lead Paint Legacy Redress sought for health costs  - Healthy Children Organizing Project 22jan01

• State Aims to Sterilize Fire Ants - AP 21jan01

• 2,3,7,8 TCDD - Dioxin Listed as 'Known Human Carcinogen' in Federal Government's Ninth Report On Carcinogens  - NIEHS 19jan01

• EPA Rules Against Bayer's Fenthion - 18jan01

• Undeterred by Poison, `Super Rats' Live On  - Asahi Shimbun (Japan) 16jan01

• Agent Orange Triggers Infertility Rising in Vietnam  -  XINHUA  12jan01

• Nations Agree Use of DDT to Fight Malaria Exceeds Risks - Earth Times News Service 10jan01

• New standards mean more facilities to report lead releases - AP 8jan01

• India Maimed and Dying From Spraying of Endo Sulfan -  Times of India 6jan01

• Studies Link PCBs to Human Cancer - David O. Carpenter, M.D. / WSJ 4jan01

• Dioxin Levels in Breast Milk higher with Fat Consumption - AP 3jan01

• US v. Montrose Chemical DDT Defendants to pay $73 million -  Federal Register 2jan01

• Organohalogen Compounds and Titers of Antibodies to Epstein-Barr Virus Antigens in the Etiology of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma - Leukemia and Lymphoma  Jan01

• Cadmium - CAS No. 7440-43-9  - 9th Report on Carcinogens USDHHS,  PHS, National Toxicology Program rev. Jan01

• Dioxin - 2,3,7,8-Tetracblorodibenzo p-Dioxin (TCDD); DIOXIN CAS No.1746-01-6 - 9th Report on Carcinogens USDHHS,  PHS, National Toxicology Program rev. Jan01

• Furan CAS No. 110-00-9 - 9th Report on Carcinogens USDHHS,  PHS, National Toxicology Program rev. Jan01

• 32-Year-Old Man Awarded $10 Million for Brain Injury by Pesticide - Members Only Pest Management Jan01

2000

• Low Doses of Common Chemical Have Science in a Quandary -  Chicago Tribune 27dec00

• Low Doses of Common Chemical Found in Many Plastic Items Widespread Health Risks -  Chicago Tribune 26dec00

• Farmers risk their health to use pesticides on crops - ETNS 24dec00

• Aventis, Montrose, Chris-Craft,  Atkemix Thirty Seven to Pay $73 Million to Clean DDT Dump Near L.A. -  SFC 20dec00

• Do you believe lawn chemicals are a health threat? - Survey by MacLean's 18dec00

• Fish in Europe Contaminated With Dioxin - NYT 17dec00

• POPs Effects Around the World  - What on Earth?  16dec00

• Sweden takes big steps to ban chemicals  - Donella Meadows / Grist Magazine 15 Dec 2000

• Add Estrogen to Cancer List - AP 15dec00 

• Repeated Exposures to Combined Paraquat and Maneb: Implications for Parkinson's Disease - Journ.Neuro. 15dec00

• ICI Insecticide Causes Mad Cow Disease - eionews.com 13dec00

• Who Says PCBs Cause Cancer? - Elizabeth M. Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health. Wall Street Journal 12dec00

• 122 nations agree to cut use of toxins  - POPs - Boston Globe 11dec00

• Doubts about handling toxic pesticides grow - The Oregonian 11dec00

• Agreement needed to eliminate toxic chemicals - CNEWS Science 10dec00

• Don't Wait for the EPA - or Anyone - Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D. 8dec00

• GE Calls Superfund Law Unconstitutional -  AP 7dec00

• EPA, Companies Plan to Phase Out Pesticide Amid Health Concerns -  WSJ 6dec00

• Children Exposed to Pesticides Have a  Seven-Fold Increased Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) - Cancer 6dec00

• U.S. EPA to ban insecticide diazinon - USA Today  - Reuters 5dec00

• Global Meeting Seeks Ways to Cope With Industrial Toxins - POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) - Chicago Tribune 3dec00

• Effects of Dibutyl Phthalate as an Environmental Endocrine Disruptor - EHP Dec00

• Immunologic Effects of Background Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Dioxins in Dutch Preschool Children - EHP Dec00

• Native Delegation Participates in Global Treaty on Toxic Chemicals - Indigenous Environmental Network 30nov00

• Child's Exposure To Pesticides Hikes Lymphoma Risk - UniSci 30nov00

• Roundup: A case-control study of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and exposure to pesticides - Cancer v.85, i.6, 19nov00

• Brockovich and the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition want PG&E to ‘come clean’ on pollution - AP 17nov00

• Agent Orange: In this legacy of war, the victims are the innocents -  AP 14nov00

• Agent Orange seen a threat to US-Vietnam harmony - Reuters 14nov00

• "Pesticides, Pathogens and Pollutants: How Safe is the Food Children Eat?" -  Chicago Tribune 12nov00

• Scientists Link Sterility with High Dioxin Levels  - The Yomiuri Shimbun 12nov99

• Terminix:  Commercial Pesticide Applicator Charged with 27 Felony Counts New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Region 1, Nassau and Suffolk Counties 8nov00 

• Chromosomal Aberration Frequency High in Workers Exposed to Pesticides - Reuters Health 8nov00

• Does Pesticide Cause Parkinson's? -  Conference Reporter Society of Neuroscience, 5-9 Nov 2000

• Dioxin Review Panel Includes Industry Supported Scientists -  ENS 1nov00 

• Sale and Use of Pesticide Products Not Requiring Registration - CDPR 2nov00

• EPA Has 10 years to Protect Children From Pesticides and Plastics Ex-EPA Official Warns Parents to "be vigilant"  - USA Today 1nov00

• Herbicides, Diabetes Linked in New Study - Washington Post 12oct00

• Pesticides Encourage Deadly Bacteria  -  New Scientist 7oct00

• Activity of Environmentally Relevant Low Doses of Endocrine Disruptors and the Bisphenol A Controversy - NCTR, FDA 7oct00

• Cosmetics Chemicals Are ‘plasticizing’ substances causing health woes? - MSNBC 4oct00

• Dioxin for Dinner? - Questions and Answers - Nutrition Action Healthletter 1oct00

• State Laws Do Not Protect Children from Pesticides Used in Schools  - Beyond Pesticides & NCAMP 3oct00

• Effects of Mixtures of Four Xenoestrogens - EHP Oct00

• Is there a correlation between organochlorine compounds and undescended testes?  - Eur J Pediatr Surg Oct00

• Levels of Seven Urinary Phthalate Metabolites in a Human Reference Population  - EHP Oct00

• States ranked by chemicals and kids -  MSNBC 7sep00 

• Di-Isononyl Phthalate - DINP Chemical Category Proposed for TRI List  - EPA 7sep00

• More Than One in a Hundred of Svalbard's Polar Bears are Hermaphroditic - BBC 1sep00

• Hexavalent Chromium -  EHP Sep00

• Identification of Phthalate Esters in the Serum of Young Puerto Rican Girls with Premature Breast Development - EHP Sep00

• Scented Products Can Be Hazardous  - Letter to the Editor SFC 2jul00

• Embryos and Children Suffering Worst Effects of Pesticides  - Donna Jacobs / Saskatchewan Eco Network 19jun00

• African Nations Learn How to Refuse Entry to Dangerous Chemicals  -  ENS 14jun00

• World Awash in Chlorine Based Poisons (Pandora's Poison - Joe Thornton)  -  ENS 8jun00

• A Cautionary Tale About Pesticides (Elizabeth Guillette) -  Washington Post 2jun00

• Reproductive Malformation of the Male Offspring Following Maternal Exposure to Estrogenic Chemicals - C.Gupta / Proc.Soc.Exp.Bio.Med.  Jun00

• Low Doses of Endocrine Disruptors and the Bisphenol A Controversy: Initial Results Confirmed - D.Sheehan / Proc.Soc.Exp.Bio.Med. Jun00

• Lead Acetate and Lead Phosphate Reasonably Anticipated to be Human Carcinogens  - EHIS/NIEHS 2000

• Dioxin Levels in Gulls  -  The Independent (Brighton, Ontario) 24may00

• Dioxin Levels in Lake Ontario Gulls Detailed in Study  -  Independent (Brighton, Ontario) 24may00

• EPA Seeking Agricultural Products Tainted With Toxic Metal - NY Times 23may00

• EPA Links Dioxin To Cancer - Washington Post 17may00

• 3M to Pare Scotchgard Products  - Washington Post 17may00

• EDSTAC (Endocrine Disruptor Screening Testing and Advisory Committee) Review  -  Davis Baltz / Commonweal 6may00

• The Secret Ingredients in Pesticides: Reducing the Risk  -  Attorney General of New York State / Environmental Protection Bureau May 2000

• Danger in the Schoolyard  - Ladies' Home Journal May00

• Dioxin: In Utero and Lactational Exposure to 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin Alters Postnatal Development of Seminal Vesicle Epithelium -  J. T. Hamm et al / Toxicological Sciences 1apr2000

• Leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in childhood and exposure to pesticides (in Germany) - American Journal of Epidemiology 1apr00

• Neurologic Function among Termiticide Applicators Exposed to Chlorpyrifos  - Environmental Health Perspectives Apr00

• Embryonic Treatment with Xenobiotics Disrupts Steroid Hormone Profiles in Hatchling Red-Eared Slider Turtles  -  EHP Apr00

• Susceptibility to Infections and Immune Status in Inuit Infants Exposed to Organochlorines - EHP Mar00

• Embryonic Treatment with Xenobiotics Disrupts Steroid Hormone Profiles in Hatchling Red-Eared Slider Turtles -  EHP Apr00

• Fabric softeners: Respiratory toxicity of fabric softener emissions - (abstract) J Toxicol Environ Health A.  26may2000

• Leaded Gasoline, Freon, and Chlorofluorocarbons invented by Mr. Thomas Midgley Jr.  - Nation 20mar00

• History of Lead  -  The Nation 20mar00

• Permanent and Functional Male-to-Female Sex Reversal in Fish  (o, p'-DDT) -  EHP Mar00

• Guthion: How politics shaped pesticide law  -  Newhouse News Service 16feb00

• Is the environment hurting men?  -  CNN & WebMD 3jan00

• FPQA, FIFRA, and the Delaney Clause - U.S. Legislative Actions - Sheldon Krimsky/Hormonal Chaos 2000 

• Dioxin - Inventory of Sources of Dioxin-Like Compounds in the United States 1987 - 1995 USEPA, 2000

• Influence of Zeranol treatment on the tissue specific co-expression of estrogen receptors (ER) in various tissues - Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology 2000

• 5 Gallon Plastic Water Jugs Contain BPA - Consumers Union 2000

• PVC Workers & Increased Testicular Cancer  -  Ohlson, C., Hardell, L., 2000.

• Pesticide Residue Data Summary 1999: Selected Data  USDA

• Glutaraldehyde - (bactericide & slimicide in paper production for food contact) Indirect Food Additives and Polymers: Migration and Toxicology 2000

• Influence of Zeranol treatment on the tissue specific co-expression of estrogen receptors (ER) in various tissues - Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology 2000

1999

• PESTICIDES Use, Effects, and Alternatives to Pesticides in Schools (with link to PDF file) - GAO 29nov99

• Statement of Senator Joe Lieberman on Pesticide Use in Schools  - Press Release 22dec99

• Facts About Dioxin - EPA Region 8 9dec99

• The Food Quality Protection Act: How a Bill Becomes a Very Different Law - Oregonian 2dec99

• PESTICIDES Use, Effects, and Alternatives to Pesticides in Schools  - GAO 29nov99

• The Politics of Pesticides - Rafael V. Mariano (KMP) 11nov99

• Triethanolamine Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies (Abstract) - NTP Technical Report Nov99

• Saccharin (Group 2B - Possible Carcinogen) - IARC Monographs 30sep99

• EPA Fact Sheet Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Related Compounds (PCBs, Dioxin, Transport, Toxicity, Fish)  - EPA Sep99

• Brain and Other Central Nervous System Cancers: Recent Trends in Incidence and Mortality -  J Natl Cancer Inst 18aug99

• DEA Diethanolamine Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies  - National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Jul99

• Food For Thought:  What's Coming Out of Baby¹s Bottle? - Science News 31jul99

• Learning Disabilities, Intellectual Retardation, Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism, Violence Linked to Chemicals  - EHP Jun99

• Pesticides and Inner-City Children: Exposures, Risks, and Prevention - Landrigan / Environmental Health Perspectives Jun99

• Poisoning Young Minds Lead, Methylmercury, PCBs, Pesticides - EHP Jun99

• Dioxin and Precaution - Rachel's 3jun99

• Pesticides & Birth Defects  - California Birth Defects Monitoring Program Apr99

• Birth Defects & Hazardous Waste Sites  - California Birth Defects Monitoring Program Apr99

• Endocrine, immune, and behavioral effects of aldicarb (carbamate), atrazine (triazine) and nitrate (fertilizer) mixtures at groundwater concentrations - Warren P. Porter 15mar99

• Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Exposure to Pesticides - Cancer v.85, i.6 12mar99

• How ‘Bout Them Apples? Pesticides in Children's Food Ten Years After Environmental Working Group Feb99

• PCBs - Public Health Implications of Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PBCs)  - USaPHS,  ATSDR, USDHHS, USEPA rev.2feb99

• Effects of Dietary Roxarsone Supplementation, Lighting Program, and Season on the Incidence of Leg Abnormalities in Broiler Chickens - Poultry Science 1feb99

• Original U.S. Nominations to the U.N. PIC Procedure Pesticides Banned or Severely Restricted  - EPA  27jan99

• Plastic Production France  - Plastiques Modernes & Elastomeres 1999

• Diethyltoluamide (DEET) -  Other Insecticides, Acaricides, and Repellents Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings 1999

1998

• Cryptorchidism and Hypospadias in Sons of Gardeners and Farmers  - Environmental Health Perspectives  Dec98

• Clopyralid Herbicide Fact Sheet  - Journal of Pesticide Reform  Winter98

• Retrospective Analysis of Twelve Developmental Neurotoxicity Studies - Submitted to USEPA OPPTS 12nov98

• PCBs Can The World's Sea Mammals Survive Them? - Prof. Joseph Cummins / The Ecologist, v.28, n.5, Sep/Oct98

• Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee (EDSTAC), including a summary of EDSTAC's final report  - Davis Baltz / Commonweal 28aug98

• CA Ag Secretary Ann Veneman & Farmers Assailed FQPA  -  Sacramento Bee/UPI 18jul98

• Permethrin Insecticide Fact Sheet -  Journal of Pesticide Reform  Summer98

• Soft PVC Toys, plastic food wrap & some medical devices - Dangerously Toxic - Charlie Cray / Rachels 18jun98

• Teeny Weenies - Alligators in Florida's Lake Apopka have Smaller Penises  - 'Fooling with Nature' / PBS 2jun98

• Pesticides Linked to Kids' Brain Deficits  -  USA Today 1jun98 

• Pesticides and Childhood Cancer  - S Zahm, MH Ward / EHP Jun98

• Developmental Neurotoxicology of Endocrine Disruptors and Pesticides: Identification of Information Gaps and Research Needs - EHP Jun98

• An Anthropological Approach to the Evaluation of Preschool Children Exposed to Pesticides in Mexico - Elizabeth Guillette EHP Jun98

• They're in Our Food; Should We Worry? (Endocrine Disruptors) - Consumer Reports Jun98

• Dioxins in Cigarette Smoke - Archives of Environmental Health May/Jun89

• Gore Slows EPA Pesticide Review - AP 28may98

• Chiquita Secrets Revealed  - Cincinnati Enquirer 3may98

• Hormone-Disrupting Toxin Found in Polystyrene Containers  - Kyodo Tokyo 27apr98

• Dioxins and Furans: Epidemiologic Assessment of Cancer Risks and Other Human Health Effects - Environmental Health Perspectives Apr98

• Synthetic Musk Linked to Environmental Risks - Toledo Blade 24mar99

• Shampoo Products Containing DEA Cause Cancer?  - Dr. Weil Mar98

• Many Indian Farmers Have Killed Themselves by Drinking Pesticides As Banks Seek Payback  - Wall Street Journal 18feb98

• Interview with Theo Colborn - 'Fooling with Nature' / PBS Frontline Feb98

• IPM Leading To Holistic Plant Health Care  - Dan Dinelli / North Shore Country Club Glenview IL 20feb98

• No Threshold Dose for Estradiol-Induced Sex Reversal of Turtle Embryos: How Little Is Too Much? - Environmental Health Perspectives  Feb99

• Endocrine Disruption and Man-Made Chemicals Time Line  - 'Fooling with Nature' / PBS Feb98

• Farmers Occupation May Affect Semen Quality - Reuters Health Services 19jan98

• Dursban/Lorsban (Chlorpyrifos)  - Toxic toys? - Environmental Health Perspectives  Jan98

• Environmental Estrogens and Endocrinology - Endocrine Society Fact Sheet 1998

• Chart of Manufacturing Routes of Petrochemicals - in Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, Donald G. Crosby. Oxford University Press 1998

1997

• Impact of naled (Dibrom 14) on the mosquito vectors of eastern equine encephalitis virus - Journal of the Am Mosquito Control Assoc Dec97

• Interview with Lois J Guillette Ph.D. - 'Fooling with Nature' / Frontline Nov97

• Transplacental effects of 3'-azido-2',3'-dideoxythymidine (AZT)  - J Natl Cancer Inst 5nov97

• Filipinos seek compensation over banana pesticides -  AP 2nov97

• Theo Colborn Presentation at the State of the World Forum - Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco CA Plenary 6nov97

• Air Freshener Emissions Toxic Effects  - Arch Environ Health Nov/Dec97

• Operation Ranch Hand Herbicides in Southeast Asia - William A Buckingham Jr. Ph.D. 18oct97

• Theo Colborn Speaking at 20th Anniversary Meeting of NCAP Portland OR 11oct97

• Managing Fleas Without Poisons - Journal of Pesticide Reform  Fall97

• Activities of an Environmental Analysis Van in the German Federal State Schleswig-Holstein - Environmental Health Perspectives Aug97

• Plastic Restriction: The Malaysian Situation Municipal Authority To Restrict Plastic Packaging (source?) 1jul97

• USGS Asks Public Help With Deformed Frog Research  - USGS 20jun97

• Pesticides are Toxic Substances Deliberately Added to our Environment  - 16may97

• Pesticide Residue Testing for Grain  (Table of detection limits) - USDA GIPSA 1may97

• Optional Quality Assessment Services USDA GIPSA

• Bisphenol A Stimulates Prolactin Release in Vitro and in Vivo - Endocrinology May97

• Dissolving the Plastics Problem  - Environmental Health Perspectives Apr97

• The Greening of the Greens:  Golf gets back to nature, inviting everyone to play  -  Smithsonian Apr97

• Inhibition of 17 beta-estradiol and progesterone activity in human breast and endometrial cancer cells by carbamate insecticides - Life Sciences 21mar97

• Albatros: PCBs, DDE, DDT, and TCDD-EQ in Two Species of Albatross on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, North Pacific Ocean - Env. Tox. Chem.  Mar97

• Prostate Enlargement/Reduction in mice due to fetal exposure to low/high doses of estradiol or diethylstilbestrol - Proc.Nat.Ac.Sci. Mar97

  • Diethylstilbesterol CAS No. 56-53-1 9th Report on Carcinogens

• Estrogen Epoxidation and Breast Cancer - Endocrine Disruptors Research Initiative/Federal Project Inventory: 70466-01 20jan97

• Poison Pens: Chemical Industry's Attempt to discredit Our Stolen Future -  Sierra Jan/Feb97

• DEET - Researcher says work's tie to war illness got him fired  -  St. Petersburg Times 11jan97

• Pesticides as a source of developmental disabilities - Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews 1997

• Development of a Research Strategy for Assessing the Ecological Risk of Endocrine Disruptors  - Rev. Toxicol. Ser. B: Environ. Toxicol. 1997

1996

• Ecologically Based Pest Management Executive Summary  - NAP 11nov96

• Monsanto v Attorney General of NY State: Attorney General of the State of New York. Consumer Frauds and Protection Bureau. Environmental Protection Bureau. 1996. In the matter of Monsanto Company, respondent. Assurance of discontinuance pursuant to executive law § 63(15). New York, NY, Nov.  - Nov96

• U.S. Court Rules Inert Ingredients Must Be Disclosed - PAN 28oct96

• Pesticide Ordinance of the City of San Francisco (as authored by Pesticide Watch) 7oct96

• Trends in Levels and Effects of Persistent Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes  - Workshop Abstracts 12sep96

• Insecticide-induced Changes in Secretory Activity of the Thyroid Gland in Rats-  Journal of Applied Toxicology Sep96

• R.J. Kavlock et al: Research Needs for the Risk Assessment of Health and Environmental Effects of Endocrine Disruptors: A Report of the U.S. EPA-sponsored Workshop Environmental Health Perspectives Aug96

• Report of the Berkeley Plastics Task Force - Recycling of Plastic is a Misconception Invented by the Plastics Industry  8apr96

• Hormones: Chemical Messengers That Work in Parts per Trillion - Our Stolen Future Mar96

• Tamoxifen-induced Developmental Toxicity  - Biol Reprod  Jan96

• EPA ignores the BIG PICTURE: Cumulative Toxic Risks Overlooked  -  Our Children’s Toxic Legacy John Wargo 1996

• Reduction in Penis Size and Plasma Testosterone Concentrations  in Juvenile Alligators (Lake Apopka, FL)  - Louis J. Guillette Jr. Gen.Comp.Endo. 1996

• Atrazine: Monsanto's Dirty Tricks from Toxic Deception - Dan Fagan, Marianne Lavelle, and the Center for Public Integrity 1996

1995

• A Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce  -  EWG  Nov95

• Developmental Effects of Dioxins -  Linda S. Birnbaum / EHP Oct95

• Hexavalent Chromium:  Natural Attenuation - EPA Ground Water Currents Jul95

• Cockroach Resistance to Insecticides  - Pest Control Magazine Jul95

• Top Five Inorganic Chemicals Produced in the U.S. 1994  -  C & E News 26jun95

• Asbestos in Cigarettes: Crocidolite Asbestos Fibers in Smoke from Original Kent Cigarettes - Cancer Research 1jun95

• Gerbil Dam's Fetal Intrauterine Position Affects the Sex Ratios of Litters  - Physiology & Behavior 1995

• Exposure to Polychlorinated Dioxins and Furans of Workers in Herbicide-Producing Plant - Am. Journ. Ep. 1995

1994

• When news isn't new: History of estrogenic chemicals  - Twine Line v.16, n.6, Dec94

• Dumping Pepsi's Plastic  -  Multinational Monitor Sep94

• Developmental Abnormalities of the Gonad and Abnormal Sex Hormone Concentrations in Juvenile Alligators in Florida - L Guillette Jr EHP Aug94

• Endosulfan, Toxaphene, and Dieldrin Have Estrogenic Effects on Human Estrogen-Sensitive Cells - Soto, Chung, Sonnenschein EHP Apr94

• Gulf War Syndrome: Mal de Guerre -  The Nation 7mar94

• Media and Science: Harmless Dioxin, Benign CFCs, and Good Asbestos - EHP Jan94

1993

• Medical Hypothesis: Xenoestrogens As Preventable Causes of Breast Cancer  - Environmental Health Perspectives v.101, n.5, 1oct1993

• Developmental Effects of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Wildlife and Humans - THEO COLBORN et al. Environmental Health Perspectives 1oct1993

• $8.1 Billion Pesticide Price Tag in 1992 - David Pimentel Data in The Way We Grow 1993

1992

• Ecological Bug Busters: Good-bye Pesticides Hello Heat, Nematodes and Electro-Guns - E Magazine May/June92

• Tamoxifen Prevents Induction of Hepatic Neoplasia by Zeranol, an Estrogenic Food Contaminant - Proc Natl Acad Sci 1feb92

1991

• Heather Farr's Frightening Foe: LPGA learns realities of breast cancer… players ask why  - USA Today 7nov91

• Pesticide Levels in House Dust Higher Than in Soil  - Pesticide & Toxic Chemical News 24apr91

• Identification of Polar Volatile Organic Compounds in Consumer Products and Common Microenvironments -  Paper #A312 to be submitted for presentation at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the AWMA 1mar91

• Twenty Most Common Chemicals Found in Thirty-One Fragrance Products  - Julia Kendall / EHN Mar91

1990

• Monsanto Criminal Investigation:   Cover-up of Dioxin Contamination in Products: Falsification of Dioxin Health Studies  - USEPA Memorandum15nov90

• Toxicology and Environmental Fate of Synthetic Pyrethroids - Journal of Pesticide Reform  Fall90

• Cancer mortality in the U.S. flour industry - J Natl Cancer Inst 16may90

• Neurotoxicity Identifying and Controlling  - US Congress Office of Technology Assessment April 1990

1989

• Dioxins in Cigarette Smoke (Similar to that of Municipal Waste Incinerator)  - Muto H, Takizawa Y; Arch Environ Health May/Jun89

1986

• Killer Courses - The Story of How US Navy Lieutenant George Prior Died From Golf  - Golf Magazine Dec86

1982

• Teratogenicity study on Pyrethrum and Rotenone (natural origin) and Ronnel in pregnant rats - J Toxicol Environ Health Jul82

1978

• Science For Sale - The Pesticide Conspiracy/ Dr. Robert van den Bosch. Doubleday 1978

1976

• Styrene Monomer in Polystyrene and Foods Including Some Preliminary Studies of the Uptake and Pharmacodynamics of the Monomer in Rats - EHP 1976

1974

• Hormones - General Conclusions on Hormones - IARC Monographs v.106, 1974 

1962

• 'Silent Spring' is Now Noisy Summer Rachel Carson Stirs Conflict -- Producers Are Crying 'Foul' - NYT 22jul62

1953

• Chemistry will solve our problems - Life Magazine 5jan53

1949

• DDT: Physiological Investigations Into The Action Of DDT - G.W. Van Der Wiel & co., Arnhem 1949

1947

• FIFRA Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act  US Code Chapter 125 25jun47

• DDT For Control of Household Pests - USDA March 1947

• Dioxin - The American People's Dioxin Report By Center for Health Environment and Justice (CEHJ)

• American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) - Whose Interest Does It Serve?

1933

• A Synthetic Oestrus-Exciting Compound - Nature 14jan33

• Plastic: The 6th Basic Food Group - American Plastics Council Advertising

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