Health and Toxics

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www.pollutionwatch.org
Look up the polluters in your neighbourhood and find out what those chemicals do to human health. Based on Canada’s National Pollution Release Inventory data and 8 toxicological databases.

www.ourstolenfuture.org
Website for authors of Our Stolen Future, provides regular updates about the cutting edge of science related to endocrine disruption. Search this site for specific chemicals.

www.mcs-global.org
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - Global Recognition Campaign for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and other chemically induced illnesses, diseases and injury affecting civilians and military personnel, with extensive information links.

PCBs

www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/iyh/environment/pcb.html
Health Canada - the most conservative view:

www.atsdr.cdc.gov/DT/pcb007.html
US public health implications of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

www.clu-in.org/conf/tio/pcb_120402
US seminar on recent research (2002)

http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/azhealthtopics/a/envtoxrephealth.htm
Environmental Toxins and Reproductive Health dioxins PCBs:

www.cehn.org/cehn/resourceguide/pcbs.html

Children's Environmental health

www.riverkeeper.org/campaign.php/ge_pcbs/the_facts/42
PCBs, Fish Consumption and Health Risks, Hudson Riverkeeper

http://population.wri.org/pubs_content_text.cfm?ContentID=1417
Evidence supporting low-level health effects from PCBs and other POPs in humans.World Resource Institute

Sludge

http://cwmi.css.cornell.edu
Cornell Waste Management Institute, Department of Crop & Soil Sciences, Sludge documents - authoritative evaluations of risks, especially useful for metal