CHEMICAL ISSUES: General Resources
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Body Burden: the Pollution in People
http://www.ewg.org/bodyburden/
CEH: Center for Environmental Health
http://cehca.org/
:...is an advocate for public health. We prevent pollution and protect children, families, and communities from toxic chemicals."
CHE: The Collaborative on Health and the Environment
http://www.healthandenvironment.org/
"...is a diverse network of over 2,600 individual and organizational partners in 40 countries and 48 states, working collectively to advance knowledge and effective action to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors."
Healthy Child Healthy World
http://healthychild.org/
(Formerly CHEC: Children's Health Environmental Coalition at http://www.checnet.org/)
"Healthy child Healthy World is dedicated to protecting the health and well being of children from harmful environmental exposures. We educate parents, support protective policies, and engage communities to make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices, and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish."
Healthy Child Healthy World Blog
http://healthychild.org/blog/
(Formerly the CHECblog: the Children's Health Environmental Coalition Blog at http://www.checblog.org/)
Co-op America
http://www.coopamerica.org/
--Boycotts
--Climate Change
--Fair Trade
--Green Energy
--Living Green
--National Green Pages
--Responsible Shopper
--Sweatshops
--UnShopping
Debra Lynn Dadd The Queen of Green
http://dld123.com/
A pioneering consumer advocate since 1982, author of "Home Safe Home", and a great resource for those with MCS or EI ( Multiple Chemical Sensitivity/Environmental Illness)
----Debra's Green Living Q&A Blog
EWG: Environmental Working Group
http://www.hcwh.org/
"...a global coalition of 443 organizations in 52 countries working to protect health by reducing pollution in the health care industry." Addresses mercury, vinyl, PVC & DEHP, pesticides, fragrances and more.
Human Toxome Project
http://www.ewg.org/sites/humantoxome/
A project from the EWG: "...scientists, engineers, and medical doctors use cutting edge biomonitoring techniques to test blood, urine, breast milk and other human tissues for industrial chemicals that enter the human body as pollution via food, air, and water, or from exposures to ingredients in everyday consumer products."
Here you can see a table that lists chemical families (each are clickable and provide good understanding) and the health concerns or target organs that they impact.
You may also browse test results by four different age categories, with chemicals and health effects listed for each:
- In utero & newborn: 413 chemicals tested for, 287 found. For example, 140 impact the brain and nervous system, and 131 impact birth defects and developmental delays (see the link for more).
- Teen: 71 chemicals tested for, 45 found.
- Adult: 528 chemicals tested for, 432 found.
- Senior: 522 chemicals tested for, 325 found.
http://www.environmentaldefence.ca/toxicnation/resources/publications.htm#3
Toxic Pollution Inherited by Daughters
http://www.ewg.org/reports/generations/execsumm.php
Actual Title: Across Generations - Industrial chemicals in mothers and daughters: the pollution we share and inherit. May 2006
""...each of 8 women's blood or urine ws contaminated with an average of 35 consumer product ingredients, including flame retardants, plasticizers, and stain-proof coatings. These mixtures of compounds found in furniture, cosmsetics, fabrics, and other consusmer goods, have never been tested for safety."
Trade Secrets (a PBS program)
http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/
"For 50 years, Americans have enjoyed the bounty of hte chemical revolution, trusting the government and industry to keep us safe. Trade Secrets reveals how the public's right to know the truth about the thousands of chemicals that surround us has been c ompromised. On this site, you will read documents from a secret archive uncovered during a lawsuit against chemical companies. Their own words show how these companies sometimes hid the truth about the health implications of their products from the public. You will also see how chemicals pervade your daily life. And you weill learnt he right uestions to ask, and steps to take, to protect yourself and your family."
WVE Women's Voices for the Earth
http://www.womenandenvironment.org/
----"Weavings" Newsletters
--Issue Report: Bad Hair Day Results of mercury hair testing
--Issue Report: Toxic Pollution Inherited By Daughters (an EWG report)
