SHEILA BASTIEN, Ph.D.
PSYCHOLOGICAL CORP.
2126 Los Angeles Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94707-2618
(510) 526-7391
FAX 525-9601

• "Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS): What It Is, What It Is Not,
  And How It Is Manifested"
  By Shelia Bastien, PhD
  As it appeared by permission in EHN's The New Reactor, July - August 2001
  newreact/sbastien.htm

Bat Conservation International

http://www.batcon.org/


• Bat Links
  http://www.batcon.org/home/batlinks.html
  
  
• Bats Falsely Blamed in Rabies Death
  http://www.batcon.org/batsmag/v6n2-8.html
  
  
  Note: they used to have an article, which may be the same as the one above. -- barb
  • "How fear of rabies can be used to inflate public health budgets at great
    cost to people and bats . . ."
    http://www.batcon.org/batsmag/feature.html

• Student Scholarship Program
  http://www.batcon.org/get_involved/index.html


Bat Conservation Trust, UK http://www.bats.org.uk/

The Bat Page
http://www.bats.8m.com/

Bat Quest
http://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/bats/batquest.html

Bat Quiz
http://www.vsufsd24.com/wlb99/quiz.htm

Bats http://rville.k12.mo.us/Cave/bat.html

Incredible Bats
http://www.incrediblebats.com/

-- end Bats section --

• Bau-biologie^TMUSA!
  International Institute for Bau-biologie & Ecology (IBE)
  http://www.bau-biologieusa.com/
  • Bau-biologie "The German term "Bau-biologie" means "building biology" or "the relationship between
    buildings and life" and could be defined as:
    
    • "The impact of the building environment on human health, and the application of
      this knowledge to the construction, or modification, of homes and workplaces, and

    • The holistic interaction between human life and other life-forms with our
      environment."
      http://www.bau-biologieusa.com/def.html

  • Baubiologie Environmental Inspectors
    http://www.bau-biologieusa.com/bbinsp.html

  • Baubiologie USA Store
    Take your time scrolling and learning through this page . . . -- barb
    http://www.bau-biologieusa.com/store.html
    • Locate a field expert in your area
      http://www.bau-biologieusa.com/building-biology/findexpert.html

    • Michael Aroner, BBEI (Berkeley)
      "Onsite inspections, sampling and phone consultations, individually tailored to
      address general quality of life or specific concerns. Allergies, mold, formaldehyde,
      chemical sensitivities, pesticides, EMF detection and reduction, etc. Non toxic
      materials/systems specification, review and management.
      http://www.bau-biologieusa.com/building-biology/miarbbbe.html

  
  Bay Area Air Quality Management District
  "The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is Committed
  to Achieving Clean Air to Protect the Public's Health and the Environment."

  The District Goals Are:
  Attain and Maintain Air Quality Standards.
  Educate the Public on Air Quality Issues.
  Improve Customer Service Internally and Externally and Enhance Partnerships with the Bay Area Community.
  Improve Staff-Management Relationships to Promote Teamwork, Excellence and Job Satisfaction.
  

  http://www.baaqmd.gov/

  Bay Area Transit Information Project, The [San Francisco]
  

  http://www.transitinfo.org/
  
  
  BayKeeper - DeltaKeeper
  http://www.sfbaykeeper.org/

  Bay Nature
  An exploration of Nature in the San Francisco Bay Area
  http://www.baynature.com

  • About Us - BAY NATURE is the first natural history magazine for the
    San Francisco Bay Area, dedicated to the intelligent and joyful exploration of
    the region's natural and the species that inhabit them.
    http://www.baynature.com/about.html

  • Magazine Captures Nature of Bay Area Rona Marech, [San Francisco] Chronicle Staff Writer; Friday, January 5, 2001
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ffile%3D/chronicle/archive/2001/01/05/WB183999.DTL

  
  Biofeedback
  
  Quantum Biofeedback -- The Future of Healthcare...Today
  Jeffery David, QBT, CMT, RMT, NCTMB
  Phone: (847) 800-5895
  Jeffery@QuantumBiofeedbackHealing.com
  Nationally Certified Quantum Biofeedback Specialist
  Nationally Certified Clinical Massage Therapist
  http://www.QuantumBiofeedbackHealing.com
  
  Contact Jeffery David For:
  
  Quantum Biofeedback Sessions
  Quantum Biofeedback System Demonstrations
  Educational Training
  Information on incorporating Quantum Biofeedback into your current health practice
  Information on becoming a Quantum Biofeedback Specialist.
  
  
  Quantum Physics...Applied to Biology, experienced through technology.
  
  The Quantum Biofeedback System is the culmination of 20 years of research in measuring
  the bio-energetics of the human body. Comprised of 55 high speed frequency channels
  and the largest medical software program in the world, the Quantum Biofeedback System
  provides the most comprehensive and accurate energetic analysis of the human body
  available on the market today.
  
  The Quantum Biofeedback System detects abnormal frequencies to determine what
  imbalances are most affecting the health. The information is then distributed to over two
  hundred therapy programs where the device feeds back appropriate healing frequencies
  to neutralize destructive wave patterns. Besides addressing health problems, the
  Quantum Biofeedback System can be used for prevention by detecting imbalances in the
  energetic field before they materialize physically.
  
  In less than five minutes, over 10,000 parameters of health are tested. The scan provides
  an analysis of:
  
  • Nutritional Deficiencies
    
  • Toxins, Fungi and Parasites
    
  • Mental/Emotional Blockages
    
  • Allergy and Food Sensitivities
    
  • Brain Wave Patterns
    
  • Hormone Imbalances
    
  • Organs, Glands, Blood, Muscles and More
    

  Beauty also, Salons and health problems
  Also see EHN's section on
  
  Cosmetics -ehnlinx/c.htm#Cosmetic

  EHN's FDA Petition 99P-1340 - http://www.ehnca.org/FDApetition/bkgrinfo.htm

  Fragrances - ehnlinx/f.htm#Fragrance

  Lipstick - ehnlinx/l.htm#Lipstick

  Nails - ehnlinx/n.htm#Nails

  Skin - ehnlinx/s.htm#Skin

  • Airsopure Online
    NOTE: EHN does not recommend any product, this is intended as information ONLY. -- barb
    http://www.airsopure.net/beauty.htm

  • Beauty's Ugly Face
    By: Susan Mitchell; Sunday Business Post; December 15, 2002
    "Dublin, Ireland, 15 December, 2002 Birth defects, absent testicles, cancer, liver damage,
    kidney problems and decreased fertility conjure up a number of images: Chernobyl,
    Saddam Hussein's fantasies coming to fruition, or the effects of a chemical or biological
    attack. In fact, the chemicals that might have such horrendous results are lurking in our
    bathrooms and on our dressers, with a stamp of official approval and wrapped in
    expensive packaging. ..."
    http://www.ewg.org/news/story.php?id=1299

  • Because we're worth it -- The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
    http://www.safecosmetics.org/
    There's a lot more here . . . go explore for yourself! -- barb
    
    • Are your products safe?
      "The chemicals in any one consumer product alone are unlikely to cause
      harm. But unfortunately, we are repeatedly exposed to industrial
      chemicals from many different sources on a daily basis, including
      cosmetics and personal care products. ..."
      I couldn't have said this better myself. Well, maybe a tad better, for I'd heighten the fact
      that we also USE the products worn and used by other people. We inhale them and absorb
      them and they are then us! -- barb
      http://www.safecosmetics.org/products/

    • Because we're worth it! Men's Corner
      The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
      "Many products that men use everyday, including deodorant, shampoo, sun
      tan cremes, and aftershave lotion, contain toxic chemicals linked to health
      problems in males. Lead acetate, a known carcinogen and reproductive toxin,
      can be purchased at the local drugstore in Grecian Formula 16. Phthalates, a set
      of industrial chemicals used in many products, are particularly toxic for males. ..."
      http://www.safecosmetics.org/menscorner/

      
      

    • Face Facts
      "Chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects do not belong in cosmetics. Period. ..."
      http://www.safecosmetics.org/facts/

    
    
  • Bladder cancer
    "...People at increased risk due to industrial exposure include textile workers, painters,
    hair-dressers, and people who work with in the leather, metal, or rubber industry. ..."
    Dr. Koop
    http://www.drkoop.com/conditions/ency/article/000486.htm

  • Earth Talk: Fragrances by Rachel Naba
    http://www.theearthcenter.com/frag.html

  • How Toxic Is Your Shampoo?
    By Doris Rapp, M.D.
    http://www.experiencehealth.com/articles/article14.html

  • Looks to Die For
    By Judith Tovey
    http://1stholistic.com/Reading/health-looks-to-die-for.htm

  • Why hairdressers don't wear high heels, how swivel-thumb scissors cut down on
    RSI, and other tales from Beauty Central.
    By Kristin Kloberdanz
    http://www.mylifepath.com/topic/hairdressers

  
  
• Because we're worth it -- The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
  http://www.safecosmetics.org/
  There's a lot more here . . . go explore for yourself! -- barb
  
  • Are your products safe?
    "The chemicals in any one consumer product alone are unlikely to cause
    harm. But unfortunately, we are repeatedly exposed to industrial
    chemicals from many different sources on a daily basis, including
    cosmetics and personal care products. ..."
    I couldn't have said this better myself. Well, maybe a tad better, for I'd heighten the fact
    that we also USE the products worn and used by other people. We inhale them and absorb
    them and they are then us! -- barb
    http://www.safecosmetics.org/products/

  • Because we're worth it! Men's Corner
    The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
    "Many products that men use everyday, including deodorant, shampoo, sun
    tan cremes, and aftershave lotion, contain toxic chemicals linked to health
    problems in males. Lead acetate, a known carcinogen and reproductive toxin,
    can be purchased at the local drugstore in Grecian Formula 16. Phthalates, a set
    of industrial chemicals used in many products, are particularly toxic for males. ..."
    http://www.safecosmetics.org/menscorner/

    
    

  • Face Facts
    "Chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects do not belong in cosmetics. Period. ..."
    http://www.safecosmetics.org/facts/

  
  Bees
  
  • Intensive farming may suppress pollinating bees
    By Steven Schultz; Princeton Weekly Bulletin; February 3, 2003; Vol. 92, No. 14
    http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/0203/7a.shtml
    • Stung by success: Intensive farming may suppress pollinating bees
      Study shows native bee species provide valuable services when allowed to flourish
      "PRINCETON, N.J. -- Intensive, industrial-scale farming may be damaging one of the
      very natural resources that successful crops require: pollinating bees. A study by
      Princeton scientists found that native bee populations decline dramatically as agricultural
      intensity goes up. ..."
      http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/02/q4/1209-kremen.htm

  • Ecology - Crop pollination from native bees at risk from
    agricultural intensification with supporting tables
    By Claire Kremen*,, Neal M. Williams*, and Robbin W. Thorp
    * Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
    Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; and
    Department of Entomology, University of California, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616
    Edited by Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University, Stanford, CA,
    and approved November 4, 2002 (received for review July 11, 2002)
    http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/99/26/16812?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=1&author1=Claire+Kremen&searchid=1058979074751_3528&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance

  • Pollination Services and Adaptive Management
    C;laire Kremen
    http://www.jsmf.org/pages/programs/complex_systems/essays/2001/kremen.htm

  • Power Pollinators, Wild Bees May Favor Eco-Farms
    National Geographic
    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/12/1212_021211_bees.html

  Bell, Iris R., MD, PhD
  http://www.aehf.com/articles/1993symp.html
  
  
  Benzene
  Benzene is found in a wide variety of products, including detergents, plastics, dyes, drugs,
  flavors and fragrances, not to mention, tobacco smoke. But, why is attention given only to benzene
  in tobacco smoke and yet not word one about how it is commonly used as an ingredient in
  flvaors and fragrances -- products that one comes in contact with daily? Whether one is a primary
  user or not. When will the legal profession start seeing fragrance injury and hate crimes for
  what they are? Chemical assaults with a deadly weapon. -- barb
  
  
  • Bad Side of Benzene, The
    http://www.eig.com/smos/smo98063.htm
    
    
  • BENZENE
    "Also known as: Benzol, Mineral Naphtha, Phenyl Hydride, Annulene
    Chemical reference number (CAS): 71-43-2
    They fail to recognize its role in flavors and fragrances! -- barb
    http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/eh/ChemFS/fs/benzene.htm

  • Benzene
    SimmosCooper LLC
    http://www.simmonscooper.com/CM/FirmOverview/FirmOverview10.asp

  • Benzene: A HUMAN CARCINOGEN
    by Raphael Metzger, Esq.
    http://www.toxictorts.com/benzene.htm
    
    
  • Benzene AML Leukemia Lawsuits
    Call us Toll free 1-800-942-2056 Mention our web site when you call.
    http://www.benzene-aml-leukemia.com/
    • Benzene causes Leukemia
      "Benzene is a known carcinogen that causes Leukemia and Blood Disorders
      such as Aplastic Anemia ..."
      http://www.benzene-aml-leukemia.com/pages/benzene_leukemia.html

    • Risk of Exposure
      "Benzene products and close relatives include:
         Toluene
          Metal Cleaners and Degreasers
          Xylene
          Mesitylene
          Most Petroleum Products
          Synthetic Detergents
          SuperLAB ..."
      http://www.benzene-aml-leukemia.com/pages/exposure_risks.html
      
      
  • Benzene fact sheet
    http://www.npi.gov.au/database/substance-info/profiles/12.html
    • Common uses
      "Benzene is used in the manufacture of a large number of chemicals that contribute to the production of plastics (such as polystyrene) synthetic fibres, detergents, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides. It is used as a solvent for fats, oils, inks, paints, plastics, and rubbers, and as a degreasing agent. Benzene is also used to make some types of rubbers as well as being a constituent in motor fuels. ..."
      http://www.npi.gov.au/database/substance-info/profiles/12.html#common

  • Benzene FYI
    http://www.benzenefyi.com/
    • Benzene Associated Diseases
      http://www.benzenefyi.com/benzene_associated_diseases.html

    • Benzene Exposure
      Remember, you have exposure to benzene through flavors and fragrance! -- barb
      http://www.benzenefyi.com/benzene_exposure.html

    • Benzene in the Environment
      http://www.benzenefyi.com/benzene_in_the_environment.html

    • Buckymedicine
      Coming soon to a pharmacy near you?
      Jessica Gorman; Science News, July 13, 2002
      http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20020713/bob10.asp

    • ClassActionAmerica
      Missing a source of benzene exposures: Flavors and fragrances . . . barb
      http://www.classactionamerica.com/Current-Cases/Benzene-Lawsuit.asp

    • Health Effects of Benzene
      http://www.benzenefyi.com/benzene_health_effects_and_treatment.html

  • Benzene Homepage
    
    http://qlink.queensu.ca/~7lmt/index.htm
    
    
    • Applications
      http://qlink.queensu.ca/~7lmt/applications.htm
      
      
    • Common Names for Monosubstituted Benzene Derivatives
      http://qlink.queensu.ca/~7lmt/newpage2.htm
      
      
    • EPA to Regulate Benzene, a Suspected Cause of Leukemia
      [EPA press release - May 31, 1977]
      http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/benzene/01.htm
      SO, why are fragrances not regulated? Can't our government agencies work together? -- barb
      Perfumers World - The materials of perfumery
      http://www.perfumersworld.com/chems/material.htm
    • Benzene: The Parent Aromatic Compound
      by Fozia Chaudary, Streetsville Secondary School
      The Chemistry Hall of Fame is a registered trade mark of York University. http://www.chem.yorku.ca/hall_of_fame/essays97/benzene/benzene.htm

    • Benzene Ring in Perfume Compositions
      US PATENT SUBCLASS 512 / 20
      http://www.patentec.com/data/class/defs/512/20.html

    • Nomenclatue
      http://qlink.queensu.ca/~7lmt/nomenclature.htm
      
      
    • Environmental Exposure to Benzene: An Update
      By Lance Wallace; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Reston, Virginia
      http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1996/Suppl-6/wallace.html
      
      
    • The National Exposure to Benzene Organization (NETBO)
      http://www.netbo.org/

    • Facts About Benzene
      http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/benzene/basics/facts.asp

    • Parkinson's
      
      • Dopamine
        From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
        "Systematic name- 4-(2-aminoethyl)benzene-1,2-diol . . .
        " ... Dopamine has the chemical formula (C6H3(OH)2-CH2-CH2-NH2). Its chemical name
        is 4-(2-aminoethyl)benzene-1,2-diol and it is abbreviated 'DA'"
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine

    • Raw Materials of Perfumery
      "Benzene: P.E.A Galaxolide"
      http://www.perfumersworld.com/chems/material.htm

    • Vanillin (artificial vanilla)
      Bill Moyers' Trade Secrets: The Options - Right to Know and Protecting Yourself
      http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/options/protecting.html
      Under Protecting Yourself, Kitchen
      "Food producers increasingly rely on synthetic flavors
      and food dyes, some of which are proven toxins. For
      example: "Blue number two," used in beverages, candy
      and pet food causes brain tumors in male mice.
      "Red number three," used in baked goods, candy, and
      maraschino cherries, has caused thyroid tumors in rats.
      While petroleum-based artificial flavorings are generally
      safe, their manufacture often leads to potential
      exposures. For example, the production of Vanillin -
      artificial vanilla flavor - requires benzene."
      
  • Benzyl Acetate
    
    • California's Prop 65 chemicals
      PRIORITIZED CANDIDATE CHEMICALS UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR
      CARCINOGENICITY EVALUATION: BATCH #1
      Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
      California Environmental Protection Agency; May 1997
      Search for Benzyl Acetate. http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/docs_state/batch1.html

    • Chemical Hazard: Benzyl acetate - OSHA http://www.skcinc.com/NIOSH1/FILE0257.html

    • MSDS/BF GOODRICH
      
    • TR-431 - Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies of Benzyl Acetate
      (CAS No. 140-11-4) in F344/N Rats and B6C3F1 Mice Feed Studies)
      http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/LT-studies/TR431.html

    The Berkeley Historical Society
    http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/histsoc/
    
    Berkeley Planning Associates
    
    • ADA Consulting Services
      http://www.bpacal.com/ada-con.html
      
      
    • Disability Policy Research and Consulting
      http://www.bpacal.com/disabil.html
      
      
    • Education and Child/Youth Development
      http://www.bpacal.com/ed-youth.html
      
      
    • Job Opportunities
      http://www.bpacal.com/jobopp.html
      
      
    • Welfare Policy
      http://www.bpacal.com/welfpol.html

    Beryllium
    

    • Beryllium - includes info on uses and toxicity
      http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/elements/4.html

    • Beryllium Central - Where Beryllium Was Used
      Jon L. Gelman, Attorney at Law
      http://www.gelmans.com/be/besites.htm
      • Beryllium Central - What's New
        http://www.gelmans.com/be/belaw.htm

    • Compounds and Uses
      Beryllium is mostly used by its self or as an alloy. It does however form compounds with
      non-metals to make toxic salts.
      http://web1.caryacademy.org/chemistry/rushin/StudentProjects/ElementWebSites/beryllium/Compounds%20and%20uses.htm

    • It's Elemental
      Jefferson Lab
      http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele004.html

    • OSHA Finds its Own Inspectors Damaged by Deadly Beryllium; First
      Screenings Yield Disturbing Results, Whistleblower Vindicated - Jan. 17, 2005
      http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0117-02.htm

    
    Bobbe Besold
    Artist, Santa Fe
    
    • Capitol's Natural World Exhibit Showcases 'Love of Life'
      By Dottie Indyke; For the Journal; Friday, September 13, 2002
      http://www.abqjournal.com/north/venuenorth/767901venue09-13-02.htm

    • Millennium Trails Billboard Art & Poetry Project,
      http://www.magnifico.org/exh_pgm/2002/Billboard/billbd2.html
      • Bobbe Besold's billboard
        http://www.magnifico.org/exh_pgm/2002/Billboard/billbd3.html

    • Island Art Shuttle
      Exhibition Posters
      http://artshuttle.com/posters.htm

    Best Environmental Directories
    with worldwide links
    
    http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cds.html
    
    
    Beta Ionone - MSDS
    Found in analysis of Eternity eau de parfume -- FDA Citizens' Petition 99P-1340 . -- barb
    http://www.privi.com/msds/msds_betaionone.htm

    Better Basics (Annie Berthold-Bond) http://www.betterbasics.com/index.html
    
    

    • Ask Annie
      A huge "laundry list" of tips. -- barb
      http://www.betterbasics.com/askannie.php3

    Betty Bridges, RN
    
    

    • A CLOSER LOOK
      [at synthetic fragrance and flavors industry]
      http://www.fpinva.org/introduc.htm

    • Asthma and Perfumes - Research related to the asthma and perfumes
      http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/Asthma%20&%20Perfumes.htm
      Communications with SPEIAC
      "I am urging the fragrance industry to step back and take an objective look at the issue
      of fragrance safety. At this point the fragrance industry is pretty much self-regulated.
      If it wants to remain this way, it will have to address the issue of fragrances negatively
      impacting health in a responsible manner. ..."
      http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/communications_with_speiac.htm

    • Background On Concerns Related to Fragrance
      This information is supported by EHN. -- barb
      http://www.fpinva.org/activist__advocacy.HR1947.involved.ref.htm

    • Betty journeys to Halifax
      ehnlinx/aaprbb.htm#Betty

    • Chemical Awareness
      More Than Skin Deep
      By Betty Bridges, RN Fragranced Products Information Network
      http://www.fbr.dk/chemaware/newslet/issue12/article15.html
      
      or: http://web.archive.org/web/20010127110500/http://www.fbr.dk/chemaware/newslet/issue12/fulltext.html#article15

    • Chemical Hazard Data Availability Study
      http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/HPVC_EURO.htm

    • Chemicals in perfumes -- 1,560 of the more than 5,000 chemicals used
      http://pw1.netcom.com/~bcb56/1500.htm

    • ConsumerAffairs.Com
      
      • Perfume Hazards Ignored
        By Betty Bridges, RN
        Fragranced Products Information Network (FPIN)
        http://www.consumeraffairs.com/health/perfume.htm
        
        
    • Continuing Education Courses
      Fragrance Sensitivity: Impact on Health and Health Care
      (In "Course Number" field, type in 138 and click on "Find.")
      http://epsilon.wlci.com/scripts/t3cgi.exe/spjc/display.taf?noshow=1
      
      
    • Economic Considerations
      http://web.archive.org/web/19991007121728/www.ameliaww.com/fpin/ecoConsid.htm

    • Environmental Health Perspectives
      
      • Scents and Sensitivity: Volume 106, December 12, November 1998
        http://members.aol.com/enviroknow/perfume/EHPscents.htm
        
        
      • Flavour and Fragrance Journal
        ISSN: 1099-1026 Print ISSN: 0882-5734
        Volume 17, Issue 5, 2002. Pages: 361-371
        Fragrance: emerging health and environmental concernsÝ
        Articles Available Online in Advance of Print
        Published Online: 16 Apr 2002
        Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
        (posted 4/19/02: bw)
        http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/93514043/START
        • "Fragrance: emerging health and environmental concerns"
          The entire article is available as a "preprint" from Betty's page:
          http://www.fpinva.org/FragranceReview.htm

      • Fragrances and Health: Volume 107, Number 7, July 1999
        http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1999/107-7/correspondence.html
        
        
    • Flavour and Fragrance Journal
      ISSN: 1099-1026 Print ISSN: 0882-5734
      Volume 17, Issue 5, 2002. Pages: 361-371
      Fragrance: emerging health and environmental concernsÝ
      Articles Available Online in Advance of Print
      Published Online: 16 Apr 2002
      Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
      (posted 4/19/02: bw)
      http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/93514043/START

    • FlipSide Alternative Daily --
      
      • HALIFAX LEADS THE WAY WITH FRAGRANCE FREE POLICIES (1)
        http://www.flipside.org/vol2/sep99/99se22a.htm
        
        
      • SELF REGULATION OF THE FRAGRANCE INDUSTRY IS INADEQUATE AT BEST (2)
        http://www.flipside.org/vol2/oct99/99oc02a.htm
        
        
      • SYNTHETIC COMPOUNDS NOW MAKE UP MORE THAN 80-90% OF THE MATERIALS USED IN FRAGRANCES (3)
        http://www.flipside.org/vol2/oct99/99oc13a.htm
        
        
      • SAFETY CONCERNS AND TESTING FRAGRANCE MATERIALS (4)
        http://flipside.org/vol2/oct99/99oc22a.htm
      
      
    • Fragranced Products Information Network
      Betty has a new domain name: fpinva.org -- barb
      http://www.fpinva.org
      Old -- yet it still comes up -- FPIN web address
      http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/fpin.htm

      
      
      
      • The Cigarette Connection
        Fragrance Chemicals in Tobacco Products http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/tobchem.htm
        
        
      • The Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association (CTFA)
        by Betty Bridges, RN
        http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/CTFA.htm
        
        
      • Essential Oils
        ESSENTIAL OILS AND OTHER AROMATIC EXTRACTS FROM PLANTS
        http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/essential_oils.htm
        
        
      • FDA "Regulation" of Cosmetics and Fragrances
        Jacki has up several of Betty's pieces, which you can link to from the bottom of this page. barb
        http://www.ourlittleplace.com/fda.html

      • Fragrance Facts
        "There are over 5000 chemicals used in the fragrance industry.
        Over 80-90% of all fragrance chemicals are synthesized, most from petroleum products. Even 'unscented' and 'fragrance free' products may contain fragrance chemicals."
        
        
        • More Fragrance Facts
          http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/Facts.htm
          
          
      • Fragrance Research
        http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/research.htm
        
        
      • Halifax meets Betty Bridges, RN
        ehnlinx/aaprbb.htm
        
        
        • Industry Motivation: Personal Rights or Profits
          ehnlinx/aaprbb.htm#Industry
          
          
        • The "REAL" facts the industry does not want you to know
          ehnlinx/aaprbb.htm#facts
          
          
        • SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFICALLY-BASED CONCERNS ON FRAGRANCE SAFETY
          ehnlinx/aaprbb.htm#SUMMARY
          
          
      • The Health Effects Institute - Benzene
        "...Epidemiologic investigations of populations occupationally exposed to benzene have
        found an increased risk of both leukemia, particularly acute myelogenous leukemia,
        and aplastic anemia. In humans, this leukemia may be associated with benzene-induced
        cell toxicity in bone marrow cells. However, it is not clear what levels of benzene are
        associated with these effects. ..."
        http://www.healtheffects.org/Pubs/benbutps.htm

      • Industry Motivation: Personal Rights or Profits
        On Betty's old site. -- barb
        http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/Rights_Profits.htm

        OR brought to you via
        Environmental Illness Society of Canada
        http://www.eisc.ca/fragrance-rebut.html

      • International Fragrance Association (IFRA)
        by Betty Bridges, RN
        http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/IFRA.htm
        
        
      • Invironment
        Fragrances and Asthma
        by Betty Bridges
        http://www.invironment.com/inv_spot.htm
        • Readers Feedback -- letter by Betty Bridges
          August 22, 2000
          Dear Editor:
          I would like to comment on the story "Less Respiratory Impact From Fragrances"
          which appeared in the August 2000 issue.
          
          The study at Tulane University did not address several important aspects of asthma.
          Asthma has several components.
          
          Bronchoconstriction, which was addressed by the Tulane study, only addresses this
          aspect of asthmatic responses to fragrances, and simple spirometry does not always
          accurately reflect the constriction of small airways. When the constriction occurs in the
          smaller airways rather than the larger ones, spirometry readings may only drop slightly.
          Constriction of smaller airways requires more extensive testing to pinpoint. Further,
          the exposures were very short, only 20 minutes and there were measurable
          constrictions of the airways. What happens if the exposure continues all day, which
          are what most asthmatics encounter? Nor did the study take into account that there is
          usually exposure to numerous fragranced products. The study did not address at all the
          underlying inflammatory process, which is considered by pulmonary experts of
          great concern. It is this underlying inflammation that makes the airways more susceptible
          to the effects of fragrances and other irritants. And, irritants, such as fragrances,
          increase the inflammation. ...
          http://www.invironment.com/inv_feedback.htm
          • Readers Feedback-- letter by Barb Wilkie
            April 2, 2001
            Dear Editor:
            Recent unwanted exposures to synthetic fragrances reminded me of an article in
            INVIRONMENT, August 2000, "Less Respiratory Impact From Fragrances." Tulane's
            testing does not reflect reality. Had I been exposed to a synthetic scent in an
            inhalation chamber for only 20 minutes and then had the luxury of having the
            chamber "flushed"
            with filtered air, I know I would not have acquired Multiple
            Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). ...
            http://www.invironment.com/inv_feedback.htm

      • Migraines, Headaches, & Other Neurological Effects of Fragrance
        By Betty Bridges, RN
        http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/migraines.htm
        
        
      • [OEM] Perfume Causes Occupational Asthma
        Betty's comments regarding:
        
        Allergy 1999 Dec;54(12):1334-5
        Occupational asthma to perfume.
        Baur X, Schneider EM, Wieners D, Czuppon AB
        
        http://www.escribe.com/medicine/occenvmed/m3576.html

      • Properties of Raw Fragrance Materials
        "These are the characteristics of materials used in the formulation of fragranced products
        and flavors and not necessarily that of finished products.
        By Betty Bridges, RN
        http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/FragMatTox.htm

      • Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM)
        by Betty Bridges, RN
        http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/RIFM.htm
        
        
      • Safety of Fragrances: A Case for Concern
        by Betty Bridges, RN
        http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/Commentary2.html
        
        
      • Scentless Makes Sense
        Follows is my letter in response to the articles written by Michael Fumento
        and Nancy Radcliffe (of the Daily News). -- Betty Bridges, RN
        http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/ResponseFUM.htm

        Summary of Scientific Concerns Related to Fragrance
        http://www.fpinva.org/Summary/respiratory_concerns.htm

      -- end here, more info on Betty's site . . .
      http://www.fpinva.org --
    
    Between Women
    "Our Mission is to Contribute to the
    Eradication of Breast Cancer In Our Lifetime, Through Awareness and Education"
    http://www.betweenwomen.net/

  • Beyond Organic Communications
    Straus Communications
    The world lost Ellen Straus November 30, 2002 . . . The world is a winner for her
    having been part of our planet. -- barb http://beyondorganic.com/
    • Cooking Fresh
      A Bi-monthly column by Laurel Miller
      http://beyondorganic.com/cookingfresh/cookingfreshcolumn.html

    • Links you may find useful
      http://beyondorganic.com/links.html

    • Recent Media Placements
      http://beyondorganic.com/placements/newyorktimes01.mht

    Beyond Pesticides: National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
    http://www.beyondpesticides.org/
    
    • Healthy Hospitals - Controling Pests Without Harmful Pesticides
      Written by Kagan Owens, Beyond Pesticides
      A Report by Beyond Pesticides and Health Care Without Harm
      HTML: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:XyGqMbed3cEJ:www.noharm.org/details.cfm%3FID%3D864%26type%3Ddocument+ATSDR,+Interagency+MCS+Paper&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

      PDF: http://www.noharm.org/details.cfm?ID=864&type=document

    • What To Do In A Pesticide Emergency
      http://www.beyondpesticides.org/todo1.html
      
      
    • Hot Topics
      http://www.beyondpesticides.org/hot.html
      
      
    • Pesticide laws inadequate, group warns; Wednesday, April 14, 1999
      http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/1999/04/041499/pesticides_2648.asp
      
      
    
    
    Beyond Pesticides, Marin
    http://www.pesticidefreezone.org/
    
    
    • MBP Ladybug - Available in T-shirts and yard signs
      http://www.pesticidefreezone.org/orders.htm
      
      
      from EHN's site:
      
      • About MBP
        ehnhompg/mbpinfo.htm
        
        
      • Pesticide Free Zone Lawn Signs and T-shirts
        ehnhompg/mbplabug.htm
    
    
    Bibliomania - Online
    Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories,
    drama, poetry, dictionaries, research and religious texts, including Brewer's Phrase and
    Fable, and Reader's Handbook, Webster's Dictionary, The Koran, The Hobson Jobson
    Dictionary of Anglo-India Terms, Simonds History of American Literature,
    Dictionary of Synonymes, Dictionary of Quotations, Biographical Dictionary of English
    Literature. Roget's Thesaurus, A Dictionary of Quotations, more... A superb educational
    resource
    http://www.bibliomania.com/

    Bills of Rights

    A Toxics Bill of Rights
    
    "All persons have a right to an environment which is sufficiently free of
    controllable contaminants or pollutants to support their health, growth
    and well-being. ..."
    http://www2.cetos.org/1/cetos/Billright.html
    
    See: Center For Ethics and Toxics
    
    http://www2.cetos.org/1/cetos/
    
    
    Charter on Industrial Hazards and Human Rights
    Judgement of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal on Human Rights and
    Industrial Hazards, Bhopal, India, October 1992.
    
    Article 4 Right to organise
    1. All community members and workers have the right to organise
    with other local communities and workers for the purpose of seeking to
    ensure a working environment free from hazard.
    
    2. In particular, the right to organise includes:
    
    (a) the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly;
    (b) the right to form local, national and international organisations;
    (c) the rights to campaign, lobby, educate and exchange information;
    (d) the right to form trade unions;
    (e) the right to strike or take other forms of industrial action.
    
    http://www.eastend.com.au/~goble/Acta/charter.htm#T4a
    
    Citizens For Health
    "We expand your health care choices because you have a right to:

    Choose your physicians, including naturopaths, homeopaths, chiropractors,
    acupuncturists and others providing alternative therapies.

    Choose treatments, including vitamin supplements, herbs, homeopathy
    and other nonconventional modalities.

    Purchase vitamins, herbs and other supplements easily and in
    the dosages you require.

    Obtain water that is free of toxins and harmful chemicals.

    Eat natural foods grown and prepared without pesticides, hormones or antibiotics
    Be fully informed if foods for purchase have been irradiated or genetically
    engineered.

    Be fully informed on issues affecting your freedom of choice."

    http://www.citizens.org/about.htm

    
    
    
    • HAZARD COMMUNICATION STANDARD, OSHA
      (I think we should all write to inform them of the chemical hazards presented by
      commonly used personal care and cleaning/maintenance fragrance products. -- barb)
      
      http://www.osha-slc.gov/OshDoc/Fact_data/FSNO93-26.html
      
      
      • Medical Practitioners Act of British Columbia, Proposed Amendment
        http://www.bcamendment.org/

      • Patients¥ Bill of Rights
        http://www.house.gov/waxman/issues/health/issues_health_bill_of_rights.htm

      • US Bill of Rights
        http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/billrights/billmain.html
        
        
        • H.R. 3605 -- PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS ACT OF 1998 - SUMMARY
          http://www.house.gov/commerce_democrats/pbor/summ.htm

      Bio
      Bioaccumulation of chemicals
      
      • [PDF]Chemicals and Health
        http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/chemicals_and_health.pdf

      • [PDF] Questions For Evaluating Products
        http://www.westp2net.org/Janitorial/tools/riskcrit.pdf

      • [PDF]Sustainable Production and Use of Chemicals
        Consultation Response Friends of the Earth; October 1998
        http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/consultation_responses/sustainable_production_chemicals_foe.pdf

      • [PDF]Synthetic Musk Fragrances
        http://www.ngo.grida.no/wwfneap/Publication/briefings/Musk.pdf

      THE BIO-INTEGRAL RESOURCE CENTER (BIRC -- Integrated Pest Management, IPM)
      
      http://www.keyed.com/birc/index.html

      >
      
      

      Biological Control Virtual Information Center
      
      http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/biocontrol/newindex.html
      
      
      • Links to related sites --
        http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/biocontrol/newindex.html
    (Also see Integrated Pest Management)
    
    
  • Biology Book, On-Line
    Table of Contents
    Maricopa Community College District
    2411 West 14th Street
    Tempe, AZ 85281-6942
    "Please let me know your thoughts mj.farabee@emcmail.maricopa.edu.
    http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html

    Bioneers
    E-mail: info@bioneers.org
    http://www.bioneers.org/
    
    

    • Conference in San Raphael, Ca., October 11-19, 2003 - overview
      http://www.bioneers.org/conference_page/conferencehub.html
      
      
      • Presenter Bios
        http://bioneers.org/conference_page/presbios02_photos.html

    • Bioneers Live!
      http://www.bioneers.org/features/live_.html

      Bioneers NOW!
      http://www.bioneers.org/features/now.html
      
      

    • Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons
      http://www.bioneers.org/conference_page/producers.html
      • When Healing Becomes a Crime: The Amazing Story of the Suppression of
        the Hoxsey Treatment and the Rise of Alternative Cancer Therapies
        by Kenny Ausubel; Foreword by Bernie Siegel, MD; Paperback $19.95
        AND . . .
        Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes A Crime
        Award-winning feature documentary by Kenny Ausubel, 83 minutes; $24.95 http://www.bioneers.org/shopping_cart/product.html

    • UnReasonable Women
      http://www.bioneers.org/unreasonable_women/unrw.html

    
    
    BIOPHILIA is the human love for living things.
    Biophilia Nature Center, Native Nursery, & Bookstore
    "Our motto is: SHARE SOME SPACE WITH WILDLIFE!"
    http://www.biophilia.net/

    THE BIOSPHERE AND MASS EXTINCTIONS
    http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookcycles.html

    • On-Line Biology Book
      Table of Contents
      Maricopa Community College District
      2411 West 14th Street
      Tempe, AZ 85281-6942
      "Please let me know your thoughts mj.farabee@emcmail.maricopa.edu.
      http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html

    Birth Defects -- Why not work to PREVENT birth defects?
    
    
    • Birth Defect Children, Association of (ABDC)
      Birth Defect Research for Children
      http://www.birthdefects.org/
      
      
      • ABDC Environmental Birth Defect Fact Sheet Abstracts
        http://www.birthdefects.org/main.htm

        HOW WE STARTED "Betty and Mike Mekdeci's son was born with birth defects in 1975. The Mekdeci's
        investigations into the cause of their son's problems led them to contact the FDA
        about medications prescribed for Betty during her pregnancy. Whistleblowers at
        FDA told the Mekdeci family to focus on Bendectin, a medication approved to treat
        nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. ..."
        
        http://www.birthdefects.org/about/about_howwestarted.htm

      
      
      
    • Fragrances and their toxic chemicals
      
      • Cancer-Cosmetic Connection?
        ehnlinx/c.htm#Connection

      • Do your own research . . . Or start with the information supplied by this site, EHN, the
        Environmenatal Health Network, and that of Betty Bridges, RN and her Fragranced Products
        Information Network. A good place to start would be the Citizens' Petition, Docket Number
        99P-1340, which is replete with analyses, FDA contact information, as well as links to sites with
        complementary information. It's your baby . . . try to do what's best for him or her from the
        earliest stages of life on. EHN's petition is available from FPIN and EHN.-- mom & grandma barb
        EHN - http://www.ehnca.org
        FPIN - http://www.fpinva.org

      • Raw Materials of Perfumery
        http://www.perfumersworld.com/chems/material.htm

      • Scents and sensitivities
        By Francesca Lyman; Feb. 6, 2002; MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR
        http://www.msnbc.com/news/702445.asp

      • "WHAT GOES ON THE SKIN GOES THROUGH THE SKIN!"
        By Richard H. Conrad, PhD Biochemist
        FDApetition/lrconrad.htm

    • March of Dimes Pregnancy & Newborn
      http://www.marchofdimes.com/pnhec/index.asp
      • Folic Acid
        Suggestion: Do not wait to take folic acid until your doctor may think to suggest it. Unless your
        body has an adverse reaction to B vitamins, take it before you plan your pregnancy. And read
        more about it on this page. And while I'm offering advice, STAY AWAY FROM PERFUME
        and SCENTED PRODUCTS. Look at the chemicals used to make those synthetic scents! -- barb
        http://www.marchofdimes.com/pnhec/887.asp

        Vaccines
        ehnlinx/v.htm#Vaccines

    Black Current Oil
    
    http://www.herbuniverse.com/blackcurrant-oil/index.html
    Black Soot Deposition (BSD) - EPA Report: Candles & Incense
    For more info, see EHN's section on Candles at ehnlinx/c.htm#Candles
    http://www.ksl.com/dump/news/cc/series/candepa.htm

    Blazing Tattles
    

    http://www.concentric.net./~blazingt
    
    Blind, Visually Impaired and Reading Disabled
    ACCESS TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT
    FOR THE BLIND AND READING-DISABLED
    
    http://www.concentric.net/~Dekker/
    
    The Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group of New York City -- links
    
    http://www.njin.net/caldwell/vicug/vicugs.html
    
    Blood
    Also see Blood-Brain Barrier this section. Fragrance chemicals are fat soluble.
    Our brains are lipids. We ALL are "fatheads." Think about it! . . . while you can.
    Also, check out EHN's section on Heart. -- barb
    ehnlinx/h.htm#Heart
    • Air pollution 'can thicken blood'
      "Air pollution thickens the blood and increases the likelihood of inflammation, according
      to research.

      "The study may help explain why poor air is linked to an increased risk of heart attacks
      and stroke, as well as worsening respiratory problems.
      So, why pollute your air and your body with petrochemically derived fragrances? -- barb
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4277113.stm

    • Bloodph.com
      Dr. Harold J. Kristal
      Metabolic Typing
      http://www.bloodph.com
      • Metabolic Typing
        http://www.bloodph.com/self-test-kit.html
      • Self-test kit
        https://www.bloodph.com/cgi-bin/shopper.exe?add=action&key=SELF_TEST_KIT
      
      
      Blood-Brain / Blood-Placental Barriers
      
      • Aromatherapy - Just what is it, and does it really work?
        "... The olfactory nerve receptors pick up the fragrance molecules and transport their
        message directly to the limbic system, bypassing the blood brain barrier. ..."
        http://www.herbanspice.com/silversage/aromatherapy.html

      • Breakthrough in Bypassing the Blood-Brain Barrier; Are Patients With
        Neurological Disorders Receiving the Best Medications?
        "... The method is an intranasal delivery system, using the olfactory and trigeminal nerve
        pathways (located within the upper nasal cavity). These nerve fibers are responsible for
        sensing odors and chemicals, and according to Dr. Frey, are capable of carrying
        therapeutic agents directly to the brain and spinal cord. ..."
        http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-12-2002/0001798762&EDATE=

      • Toxicologic evidence of developmental neurotoxicity of environmental chemicals.
        Andersen HR, Nielsen JB, Grandjean P; Department of Environmental Medicine,
        Odense University, Winslowparken 17, DK-5000, Odense, Denmark.
        PubMed
        "Developmental neurotoxicity constitutes effects occurring in the offspring primarily
        as a result of exposure of the mother during pregnancy and lactation. To exert their
        effect, these chemicals or their metabolites must pass the placenta and/or the blood-brain
        barrier. In experimental animals, exposure to neurotoxic chemicals during critical
        periods of brain development has induced permanent functional disturbances in the
        CNS. Although available data suggest that proper animal models exist, only few chemicals
        have been tested. ..."
        http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10781879&dopt=Abstract
        
        
      Blood Chemistry
      
      • Answers Google.com
        GPT stands for "Serum Glutamic Pyruvic Transaminase."
        http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=531602

      • Blood Chemistry Definitions
        CellMate Wellness Systems
        http://www.carbonbased.com/cbcblood.htm
        • Kidney Function
          http://www.carbonbased.com/cbcother.htm#KIDNEYFUNCTION

      • Blood Tests -- a table of information
        http://www.sh.lsuhsc.edu/fammed/OutpatientManual/content.html

      • How To (really) Read A Blood Chemistry
        by Dr. Regan Golob, DC
        http://www.abcompany.com/docgolob/bloodchemistry.htm

        LabTests Online
        http://www.labtestsonline.org/

        • hs-CRP . . . High-sensitivity C-reactive protein
          "May be helpful in assessing risk of developing heart disease"
          http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/hscrp/glance.html

        • Kidney and Urinary Tract Function, Disorders, and Diseases
          One thing I learned: Foamy urine can be an early warning sign of kidney disease. No doctor
          has yet asked me about foamy urine. To all other questions they did ask, I answer: No. -- barb
          http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/conditions/kidney.html

        • Creatinine
          http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/creatinine/glance.html

        • Creatinine - Common Questions
          http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/creatinine/faq.html

        • GFR and EGFR
          " Formal name: Glomerular Filtration Rate and Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate"
          http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/gfr/glance.html

      • REVISED BLOOD CHEMISTRY VALUES
        RE: Values for Dialysis Patients
        by Priscilla A. Laliberty, RD, LDN
        http://www.nfb.org/vodold/vsum9816.htm

      • What Does Your Blood Test Mean?
        Optimal Wellness, Dr. Joseph Mercola
        http://www.mercola.com/forms/mpt.htm

        
        

      Blood pH . . .
      
    • Biomedx
      http://biomedx.com/
      
      • 
        Biomedx Workshop/Training programs
        http://biomedx.com/microscopes/systems/workshop.html

        Biomedx View blood
        "The bottom line is this, if one understands HOW an unhealthy condition arrived,
        one can understand HOW to reverse the unhealthy condition. "
        http://www.biomedx.com/bioterrain/

    • Bloodph.com
      Dr. Harold J. Kristal
      Metabolic Typing
      http://www.bloodph.com
      • Metabolic Typing
        http://www.bloodph.com/self-test-kit.html
      • Self-test kit
        https://www.bloodph.com/cgi-bin/shopper.exe?add=action&key=SELF_TEST_KIT
      
      
      
    • pH Miracle Living
      http://www.phmiracleliving.com/
      • Alkaline water
        http://www.phmiracleliving.com/water.htm

      • Q-:Link -- EMF protection
        http://www.phmiracleliving.com/innerlink-order.htm

      • Justin Schmidt
        Practicing in the SF Bay Area; Oakland and San Rafael
        Trained at The pHMiracle Center by Dr. Robert O. Young
        Member: International Microsopy Association-New Biology
        Justin_schmidt -at- hotmail.com
        
        
    Bodega Bay and a PG&E Nuclear Power Plant ...
    
    • The Geology of Bodega Head: The Salinian Terrane west of the San Andreas Fault
      (with clickable slide show)
      http://www.sonoma.edu/geology/wright/Bhead.html
      
      
    • How Bodega Bay Nixed The Atomic Park
      by Simone Wilson
      http://www.monitor.net/monitor/12-3-95/bodegapge.html
      
      
    • Nuclear Diary: A Brief History
      http://www.sfo.com/~rherried/nhistory.html
      
      
    • REFLECTIONS
      (search w/browser's find command ... there are a couple of references)
      http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1999/12/26/SPECIAL10769.dtl
    Body
    
    • Atlas of the Body
      http://www.ama-assn.org/insight/gen_hlth/atlas/atlas.htm

    • Body Burden
      "Scientists have been studying pollutants in air, water and on land for decades. Now they're studying pollution in people, and their findings are troubling." BodyBurden is a joint project of EWG, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and Commonweal
      http://www.bodyburden.org/
      Just a couple of links to start your exploration of this site. I believe it is long past time due
      that we practice prevention and we can start by going pesticide- and fragrance-free. -- barb
      
      • How do chemicals end up in my body?
        http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden/factsheets/howcontam.php

      • Fact Sheet: How do chemicals end up in my body?
        http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden/factsheets/howcontam_more.php

    • Body Illuminations
      Look for medical alert identification jewelryfor men, women and children
      http://bodyilluminations.safeshopper.com

    • Body Scans
      
      • FATAL FALLOUT: The Dangers of Ionizing Radiation
        by Gary Null, PhD, Ernest Sternglass, PhD & Jay Gould, PhD
        Copyright 2002, Gary Null & Associates
        http://www.garynull.com/Article.aspx?article=/Documents/FatalFallout/FatalFallout.htm
        • Part 2 Screening vs. Diagnostic Procedures
          "Screening procedures are employed to look periodically at symptom-free people ...
          ...[D]iagnostic procedures are careful examinations of people who already have some
          suspicious signs (objective) or symptoms (subjective) of a potential problem --- e.g., cancer. "
          http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/XHP/MPDaXrayST.html#Part2

      • Making Personal Decisions about X-ray Screening Tests, Such as
        Mammography and CT of the Lung, Colon, Heart, or the Entire Body.
        John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Molecular & Cell Biology
        University of California at Berkeley.
        Egan O'Connor, Executive Director and Editor, CNR.; May 2002
        http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/XHP/MPDaXrayST.html

      
      
    Boeing
    
    • Boeing to Ill Workers: "It's All In Your Head"
      An Investigation of the Boeing Company
      story by Eric Nelson and Mark Worth
      photos by Neal Herbert, research assistance by Andrea Helm; The Free Press
      http://www.speakeasy.org/wfp/08/Boeing1.html

    • Disorder in the Court
      On Top of Everything Else, Sick Boeing Workers Face Judicial Hurdles
      by Eric Nelson; The Free Press
      http://www.speakeasy.org/wfp/08/Boeing5.html
      
      
    • Disunity Among the Machinists by Mark Worth; The Free Press
      http://www.speakeasy.org/wfp/08/Boeing3.html

    • Resources
      http://www.speakeasy.org/wfp/08/Boeing6.html

    • Suicide Solution - One Woman's Way Out
      by Mark Worth; The Free Press
      http://www.speakeasy.org/wfp/08/Boeing2.html

    
    Tim Bolen
    "The Bolen Report began as a dream and vision and has become the world's largest health
    newsletter exposing big-Pharma's plans to thwart innovative medical practitioners.Ý ..."
    Read Bolen's work on "Quackwatch," Stephen Barrett and others. Important info! -- barb
    
    • Bolen Report^TM
      http://www.bolenreport.net/

    • Bolen Report ARCHIVES
      http://www.bolenreport.net/search.php
    Books
    
    Just slowly scroll through this section, or if you know of a title or author, use your
    browser's find command to jump to it ... assuming I've listed it. -- barb
    
    
    
    For more information about a few books in the following list, visit
    ehnlinx/bbooks.htm

    
    
    Not a book, but an item of considerable interest . . .
    

    Marin Beyond Pesticides merchandise Sign designed by Joe Draeghert http://www.pesticidefreezone.org/orders.htm

    
    

    Being Beautiful
    1986 . . . With foreword by Ralph Nader
    "What you need to know about cosmetics, allergies, no-frills cosmetics, and 'natural
    alternatives'. Also, information about harmful ingredients that you should avoid."
    
    This book is a compilation of information gathered up to press time in 1986, and
    includes excerpts from the 1978 General Accounting Office's official study on
    inadequate federal regulation of cosmetic safety. This section includes "a list of one
    hundred twenty-five (125) cosmetic chemicals that are believed to cause cancer."
    
    A couple of other comments by Ralph Nader in the Foreword:
    
    "Due to some adroit lobbying years ago by the cosmetic industry,
    the FDA has to beg for safety, rather than demand it."
    
    "Even with what authority is granted -- to require labeling, ban hazardous ingredients
    and seize dangerous or contaminated products -- the FDA is too bereft of will and too
    underfunded to perform its duties effectively."
    
    Order by sending a check or money order for $10 (still true April 2004) to:
    

    Being Beautiful
    P.O. Box 19367
    Washington, DC 20036
    
    Phone: 202-387-8030
    

    Bibliomania - Online
    Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories,
    drama, poetry, dictionaries, research and religious texts, including Brewer's Phrase and
    Fable, and Reader's Handbook, Webster's Dictionary, The Koran, The Hobson Jobson
    Dictionary of Anglo-India Terms, Simonds History of American Literature,
    Dictionary of Synonymes, Dictionary of Quotations, Biographical Dictionary of English
    Literature. Roget's Thesaurus, A Dictionary of Quotations, more... A superb educational
    resource
    http://www.bibliomania.com/

    Booklist - American Library Association's Booklist magazine.
    http://www.ala.org/booklist/

    Note: Alison Johnson's book, Gulf War Syndrome - Legacy of a Perfect War, was
    reviewed in the April 15, 2001 Booklist. Ask your libraries to buy at least one copy of
    Gulf War Syndrome - Legacy of a Perfect War. Unfortunately, BookList only has up on
    the web books reviewed in year 2000 and before. -- barb
    
    

    • "Access for People With EI/MCS and Other Related Conditions"
      by California's [late] state senator, Milton Marks (in three parts)
      books/eimcsf1.htm

    • Addison Wesley Longman
      "Non-fiction, general interest books on a wide range of topics"
      
      http://www2.awl.com/corp/disciplines/general.html
      
      
    • Amazon.com
      For those who shop via the www -- or just "window shop" --
      here is the link to what is claimed to be "Earth's Biggest Bookstore."
      
      
      http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/4630-8349243-392334
      
      
    • Barnes & Noble
      
      http://www.barnesandnoble.com/index.asp?userid=65PP0XABJW
      
      
      
    • BEST of the Reactor 1985 - 1995
      Editor Susan Molloy
      books/bestnrad.htm
      
      
    • Black Oak Books - Berkeley, California
      http://www.blackoakbooks.com/index.htm
      
      
    • Books On-Line
      http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
      
      
    • Book Review: Neuropsychological Toxicology
      Review by Richard Alexander
      "Neuropsychological Toxicology: Identification and Assessment of Numan Neurotoxic
      Syndromes. Second Edition. 525 pp. by David E. Hartman. Published by Plenum Press,
      New York, (212-620-8000) $59.50 ISBN 0-306-44922-6. Chapters: Introduction, Evaluation
      of Neurotoxic Syndromes, Metals, Solvents, Alcohol,Drugs, Pesticides, Other Neurotoxins,
      Psychosomatic Disorders, Forensic and Private Practice Issues, References, Index
      
      In the area of toxic tort litigation, this is a significant reference tool and is strongly
      recommended as a "must have" for your library. Written by a Chicago neuropsychologist
      who is a nationally-known clinical expert on human toxic exposure effects,
      Neuropsychological Toxicology is "the" comprehensive reference for attorneys,
      neuropsychologists, physicians, toxicologists and advocates who need information
      about diagnosing the effects of toxic brain injury.
      
      If Dr. Hartman's groundbreaking book can be summarized in three points it is that (1)
      many workplace chemicals and commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals cause brain injury
      and nervous system damage (2) millions of adults and children are exposed to these
      substances at work or at home and (3) the resulting "neurotoxic" damage is a special
      clinical problem that requires a specialized approach in both diagnosis and litigation. ..."
      http://consumerlawpage.com/article/neuro.shtml

    • Boston Women's Health Book Collective
      authors of Our Bodies,Ourselves for the New Century
      http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/

    • John Bower
      • In Context; Context Institute's award-winning journal
        Clearing The Air -Seven do's and seven don't for improving indoor air quality
        by John Bower
        http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC35/Bower.htm

      • The Healthy House Institute
        http://www.hhinst.com/index.html
        
        • The Healthy House : How to buy one, How to build one, How to cure a sick one
          by John Bower (copyright 2001)
          http://www.hhinst.com/THHcontribs.html

        • Welcome to The Healthy House Institute Archives
          " This is where you can find selected healthy-house articles that have been published
          in a variety of places. Please keep in mind three things. First, the articles located here
          are the original versions, some of the published versions were revised by editors
          before they were printed. Second, these articles are copyrighted, so they cannot be
          reproduced without permission. Third, although most of the information in these
          articles is still relevant, some portions may be outdated.
          http://www.hhinst.com/archives.html

    • Breast Cancer: Beyond Convention -- The World's Foremost
      Authorities on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Offer Advice on Healing
      by Mary, MD Tagliaferri (Editor), Isaac Cohen (Editor), Debu Tripathy (Editor)
      http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743410114/ref%3Dbr%5Fb%5Fnr%5F5/104-9022039-6823135

      Also available in Berkeley at Cody's
      http://www.codysbooks.com/product/info.jsp?isbn=0743410114

      • Isaac Cohen, L.Ac., O.M.D
        Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist
        Consultant and research, Breast Care Center UCSF
        http://breastcarecenter.ucsfmedicalcenter.org/icohen.html

    • Builders BOOKSOURCE
      http://www.buildersbooksite.com/

    • THE CACOF CONSPIRACY
      LESSONS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
      
      http://members.icanect.net/~sunpress/new_book.htm
      
      
      
    • Casualties of Progress
      Personal Histories from the Chemically Sensitive
      Alison Johnson, Editor
      http://www.conceptmed.com/Johnson/
      To learn more about this book, please visit
      ehnlinx/bbooks.htm#Casualties
      
      
      Also see Alison's book on the Gulf War Syndrome
      
      Alison Johnson has produced three videos on MCS and one on GWS -- see
      ehnlinx/v.htm#Videos
      
      MCS Information Exchange
      Alison Johnson
      2 Oakland Street
      Brunswick, ME 04011
      
      

    • Chemical Exposure and Human Health
      Cynthia Wilson (1993)
      http://www.ciin.org/books.htm
      
      
      • Porphyrinogenic Substances
        by Cynthia Wilson (1996)
        
        
      • The Human Consequences of the Chemical Problem
        by Cindy Duehring and Cynthia Wilson (1994)
        
        
    • Chemical Exposures: Low Levels & High Stakes
      Nicholas Ashford, PhD, JD, and Claudia MillerMD,MS
      Available through EHN
      books/bookordr.htm
      
      
    • Chemical Injury and the Court: A Litigation Guide for Clients and Their Attorneys
      Author Linda Price King. Forward by Will Collette.
      
      This has been a project of the Environmental Health Network, Chesapeake, VA
      http://www.envirohealthnet.org/
      
      To learn more about this book, please visit
      ehnlinx/bbooks.htm#King
      
      You can buy this book as a special order through Barnes and Noble
      and from Amazon.com. You can also ask your library to order it
      through the publisher - McFarland and Company, Inc.
      Publishers -- 1.800.253.2187.
      
      ISBN 0-7864-0624-0
      appendices, bibliography, index
      264pp. softcover 1999
      "Reviews
      "This guide to chemical-injury litigation offers strategies both clients and their attorneys
      can use to better serve their cases. Recommended' -- Public Library Quarterly "
      http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-0624-0

      • Curing the Incurable
        by Dr. Tom Levy
        All you want to know about high doeses of vitamin C . . . -- b arb
        http://www.tomlevymd.com
      • Inconclusive By Design
        Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Federal Environmental Health Research
        ~~ an expose of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) ~~
        http://www.envirohealthnet.org/inconclusive/

      
      
    • Chemical Injury Information Network (CIIN)
      Works by Cindy Duehring and Cynthia Wilson
      http://ciin.org/books.htm
      
      
    • Clearing the Air: Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures
      Committee on the Assessment of Asthma and Indoor Air, Division of Health
      Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine
      456 pages, 6 x 9, 2000; ISBN: 0-309-06496-1
      To read or search online . . . pages 247 and 400 deal with fragrances
      http://www.nap.edu/books/0309064961/html/
      To Purchase
      http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9610.html
    • Cody's Book - Berkeley, California
      http://www.codysbooks.com/
      
      
    • Corporate Predators
      "How are corporations tightening their grip on the global political economy?
      How does this affect you? Read Mokhiber and Weissman's Corporate
      Predators and find out . . . "
      http://www.corporatepredators.org/
      
      
    • Devra Davis, Ph.D.
      When Smoke Ran Like Water
      Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution
      http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i09/09b00701.htm
      • About Devra Davis, PhD
        http://www.whensmokeranlikewater.com/about/DLDresume.htm

      • The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
        The Heavy Air of Donora, Pa.
        By DEVRA LEE DAVIS
        "... This essay is adapted from When Smoke Ran Like Water:
        Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution ... "
        http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i09/09b00701.htm

      • Most Cancer Is Made, Not Born
        Yet little is spent to control avoidable exposure to cancer-causing chemicals
        Devra Lee Davis, Ph.D.; San Francisco Chronicle; Thursday, August 10, 2000
        http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/10/ED9161.DTL

        Printer friendly
        http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/10/ED9161.DTL&type=printable

    • Jeffery Deaver
      The Empty Chair
      If you like mysteries, this is one for you! Chase scenes without fast-paced cars, twists and turns in plot to keep you turning the pages. Well, at least it kept me turning the pages. Trust me, on
      this one, it belongs listed in this section for MCSers. -- barb
      http://www.jefferydeaver.com/

    • Designer Poisons: How to Protect Your Health and Home from Toxic Pesticides
      By Dr. Marion Moses; Pesticide Education Center
      http://www.igc.org/pesticides/dpindex.html
      
      
      • BOOK REVIEW: By Richard Alexander, Esq.
        http://www.safe2use.com/media/designer.htm

    • The Disposed - Living With Chemical Sensitivities
      A book by Rhonda Zwillinger
      Available through EHN - See Books
      books/bookordr.htm
      
      
      
    • EnviroLink Bookstore
      http://www.envirolink.org/bookstore/
      
      
    • Environment and Mental Health
      A Guide for Clinicians
      Editor: Ante LundbergÝ -Ý Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
      ISBN 0-8058-2907-5ÝÝÝ Copyright © 1998 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
      
      http://www.erols.com/lndbrg/
      
      
      Environmentally Induced Illnesses
      Ethics, Risk Assessment and Human Rights
      Thomas Kerns, PhD
      ISBN: 0-7864-0827-8; 304pp. appendices, bibliography, index $39.95 softcover 2001
      http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/action.lasso?-db=Promodat.fp3&-lay=Viewing%20Layout&-format=record%5fdetail.htm&-recid=33592&-find
      
      
      To learn a whole lot more about this book, please visit EHN's page
      ehnlinx/bbooks.htm#Kerns

      Vist the website of Thomas Kerns, PhD
      http://students.washington.edu/tkerns/tksite/tk-homepg.html

      
      

    • Environmentally Safer Living
      "is a basic introduction to environmentally healthier options and
      creating environmental access"
      Deborah Mayaan
      Environmentally Safer Living
      (Tucson, Ariz.: Three Points Press, 2000);72 pages, coil bound. http://www.deborahmayaan.com/e-living.htm
      
      To Order http://www.mindspring.com/~threepointspress/e-living.htm#order
      

    • Epstein, Samuel S. Dr.
      
      
      • The Breast Cancer Prevention Program
        S. S. Epstein, D. Steinman, and S. LeVert. New York, 1997: MacMillan Publishing Company. 2nd edition, 1998.
        http://www.preventcancer.com/
        
        
      • The Breast Cancer Prevention Prevention Program, 2nd Edition
        "The book that takes the cancer establishment to task"
        By Samuel S. Epstein M.D., David Steinman and Suzanne Levery, 1998
        http://www.howtopreventcancer.com/cpc/books/bcp.htm

      • Cancer in Britain: The Politics of Prevention
        L. Doyal and S. S. Epstein. London, 1983: Pluto Press.

      • Drugs of Abuse: Genetic and Other Chronic Non-Psychiatric Hazards
        S. S. Epstein, ed. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1971: M.I.T. Press.

      • GOT (Genetically Engineered) MILK!
        The Monsanto rBGH/BST Milk Wars Handbook*
        Collected Writings 1989-2001
        (With an Introduction by Ben & Jerry, and a Foreword by John Hagelin, Ph.D.)
        "This is an internet book which will be published in March 2001 by Seven Stories
        Press. Ordering information: Seven Stories Press, 140 Watts Street, New York, NY
        10013; telephone 212-226-8760; fax 212-226-1411; email info@sevenstories.com"
        http://www.howtopreventcancer.com/cpc/books/index.htm

      • Hazardous Wastes in America
        S. S. Epstein, C. Pope, and L. Brown. San Francisco, 1982: Sierra Club Books.

      • The Legislation of Product Safety: Consumer Health and Product Hazards,
        Vol. I: Chemicals, Electronic Products, Radiation.
        S. S. Epstein and D. Grundy, eds. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1974: M.I.T. Press.

      • The Legislation of Product Safety: Consumer Health and Product Hazards,
        Vol. II: Cosmetics and Drugs, Pesticides, Food Additives.
        S. S. Epstein and D. Grundy, eds. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1976: M.I.T. Press.

      • The Mutagenicity of Pesticides
        S. S. Epstein and M. Legator, eds. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1971: M.I.T. Press.

      • The Politics of Cancer
        S. S. Epstein. San Francisco, 1978: Sierra Club Books;
        Revised and expanded edition, New York, 1979: Anchor/Doubleday Press.

      • The Politics of Cancer Revisited
        S. S. Epstein. Fremont Center, New York, 1998: East Ridge Press
        http://www.howtopreventcancer.com/cpc/books/poc.htm

      • Safe Shoppers Bible
        D. Steinman and S. S. Epstein. New York, September, 1995:
        MacMillan Publishing Company
        http://www.howtopreventcancer.com/cpc/books/ssb.htm
        
        
        • Hotdogs, toothpaste risky products? That's what new guide says
          Review of The Safe Shopper's Bible in the Detroit News
          http://detnews.com/menu/stories/17288.htm
        
        
        
        
      • UNREASONABLE RISK. How to Avoid Cancer from Cosmetics and
        Personal Care Products: The Neways Story (2001)
        by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
        http://www.preventcancer.com/books/UnreasonableRisk.htm
        • Shelley Kramer's Healthy Communications
          Los Angeles Director of the Cancer Prevention Coalition
          http://www.healthy-communciations.com

        
        
    • Fairechild, Diana
      
      • Healthy Flying With Diana Fairechild
        http://www.flyana.com/
        
        Diana Fairechild writes: "All the information on the environmental hazards
        of air travel is in the updated version of Jet Smart. It's called
        Jet Smarter."
        http://www.flyana.com/book3.html
        
        
        • Jet Smart (available through EHN)
          books/bookordr.htm
        
        
        
      • Office Yoga: Fast and Easy At-Your-Desk Exercises To Improve Your Work and Health (1999)
        http://www.flyana.com/yoga.html

    • Fatal Harvest
      The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
      Edited by Andrew Kimbrell ISLAND; 396 Pages; $75, $45 PAPERBACK http://www.fatalharvest.org/
      A few reviews:
      • BeyondOrganics.org
        Praise for Fatal Harvest
        http://beyondorganic.com/onb/pksucc01.html

      • Mindfully.org
        Reviewed by STEVE HEILIG / SF Chronicle 23jun02
        from
        http://www.mindfully.org/GE/GE4/Fatal-Harvest-Heilig23jun02.htm

      • Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
        http://www.panna.org/about/pu/pu_200207.05.dv.html

    • Dr. Cynthia E. Fincher
      Healthy Living in a Toxic World -- carried by EHN for sale; see Book Orders
      This site contains links to tips from Dr. Fincher's book.
      NON-TOXIC SOLUTIONS; CLEANING PRODUCTS; PEST CONTROL; PERSONAL
      PRODUCTS AND COSMETICS; OTHER TOPICS COVERED IN THE BOOK -- barb
      "Living TAPESTRY is a ministry of The Invisible Connection
      You may contact us at LivingTAPESTRY@whit.com "
      http://www.whit.com/tapestry/h-toxic.htm

    • Generations at Risk
      How Environmental Toxins May Effect Reproductive Health in Massachusetts
      A Report by Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (GBPSR)Ýand theÝ
      Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG) Education Fund; 1996
      http://www.igc.org/psr/gar-rpt.htm
      
      Principal Authors:
      Ted Schettler, MD, MPH
      Gina Solomon, MD, MPH
      Paul Burns, JD
      Maria Valenti
      Executive Summary
      
      Major findings of the report include:
      
      1. Of the more than 70,000 synthetic chemicals in commercial use today, only a small fraction have
         been adequately examined for toxic effects in humans and other life forms;
         
      2. Despite limited scientific information, there is solid evidence of the reproductive toxicity of some
         substances in widespread commercial use including solvents, metals, and pesticides; newly-
         emerging evidence of the toxicity of others; and important new information about a mechanism of
         toxicity known but largely ignored for many years -- hormone (endocrine) disruption;
         
      3. Federal and state regulations are frequently not written or implemented in ways protective of
         human health and the environment;
         
      4. Of industries required to report chemical use, Massachusetts businesses used more than 2.1
         billion pounds of toxic chemicals associated with reproductive or developmental disorders from
         1990-1994;
      5. Right-to-know legislation like the federal Toxics Release Inventory and the Massachusetts
         Toxics Use Reduction Act provide the public with essential information which is rightfully theirs
         about toxins to which they may be exposed. However, information gaps show that these laws do
         not go far enough. Since these laws were implemented, there has been a reduction in the
         environmental release of known and suspected reproductive toxins in Massachusetts;
         
      6. In order to protect the public from exposure to known and suspected reproductive toxins, a
         precautionary and collaborative approach must be used by government, industry, the medical and
         scientific communities, advocacy groups, and private citizens.
      
      
      
    • GET A WHIFF OF THIS : Perfumes (fragrances) - the Invisible Chemical Poisons
      By Connie Pitts
      Available through 1st Books as an electronic version, a paperback or a hardback w/dust cover.
      Additionally, you can read about the book, Connie and get a free preview from this site.-- barb
      http://www.1stbooks.com/cgi-bin/1st?partner~1st|type~6|Data1~17708

    • Get Buzzed! Buzzed: The straight facts about the most used and abused drugs; from alcohol to ecstasy.
      By Cynthia Kuhn, Ph.D., Scott Swartzwelder, Ph.D., and
      Wilkie Wilson, Ph.D. of the Duke University Medical Center. (W.W. Norton, March 1998)
      http://www.buzzed.org/buzzed.html
      
      
    • Dr. Pamela Reed Gibson
      
      • Multiple Chemical Sensitivity : A Survival Guide
        Book Review
        http://www.i5ive.com/article.cfm/7616/65342

        And at: http://bookcomplex.net/157224173X.html

      • ONLINE!
        Understanding & Accommodating People with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
        in Independent Living
        by Pamela Reed Gibson, Ph.D., James Madison University
        http://www.ilru.org/ilnet/files/bookshelf/mcs/mcs1.html

      • Articles by Dr. Reed listed under Lassen Tech's Resources for the Chemically Injured
        http://www.lassentech.com/eiarti.html

      • Environmental Illness & Multiple Chemical Sensitivities - Invisible Disabilities
        By Pamela Reed Gibson
        From Journal of Women & Therapy; AEHA Quarterly, Summer 1994
        http://www.environmentalhealth.ca/summer94gibson.html

      >Dr.Gloria Gilbere
      http://www.drgloriagilbere.com/
      Articles:
      
      
      • Second Hand Reactions
        Articles appearing first in Kootenai Valley Times
        drgilbere/ggartind.htm

        Also available on Dr. Gilbere's site at
        http://www.drgloriagilbere.com/news.html

      • Books in chronological order:
        
        • I was POISONED by my body...I have a gut feeling you could be, too!"
          By Dr.Gloria Gilbere
          ehnlinx/bbooks.htm#POISONED

          Also see I was POISONED by my body... at
          http://www.drgloriagilbere.com/poisoned.html

        • Invisible Illnesses
          http://www.drgloriagilbere.com/invisible.html

        • First Hand Solutions to Second Hand Reactions http://www.drgloriagilbere.com/firsthand.html

        • Nature's Prescription Milk http://www.drgloriagilbere.com/milk.html

    • THE GUAIFENESIN PROTOCOL FOR FIBROMYALGIA
      What your doctor may NOT tell you about fibromyalgia
      Http://www.guaidoc.com/

    • Gulf War Syndrome - Legacy of a Perfect War
      By Alison Johnson
      
      http://www.conceptmed.com/Johnson/

    • Handbook for the Chemically Sensitive
      review by Katherine Duff
      Living with Environmental Illness: A Practical Guide to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
      by Stephen Edelson, MD with Jan Statman
      Taylor Publishing, 1550 West Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas 75235 USA
      1998, paperback, $14.95
      http://tldp.com/issue/180/Handbook%20for%20the%20Chemically%20Sensitive.html
      
      
    • Healthy by Design : Building and Remodeling Solutions for Creating Healthy Homes
      Author(s): David Rousseau, James Wasley; ISBN: 0881791350
      http://www2.greenbuilder.com/gb/book.qry?function=detail&Layout_0_uid1=109&Layout1_uid1=109

    • Michael Hobson, DC
      THAT DIRTY FAT - A Guide to Reducing Body Toxins
      (12/02 -Discontinued by Woodland Books, but available through Barnes&Noble; $7.95-- barb)
      http://www.infowest.com/detox/dirtyfat.htm

    • Hormones and Women's Health
      
      • Recommended Reading
        by THE TRUTH ABOUT PREMARIN
        This page has an extensive list of books. -- barb
        http://athena.athenet.net/~nrsprntg/PRNrr.html
        • PREMARIN SIDE EFFECTS REPORTED BY WOMEN AND DENIED BY DOCTORS - Letters
          by THE TRUTH ABOUT PREMARIN
          http://athena.athenet.net/~nrsprntg/Letters2001.html

    • In Harm's Way
      http://www.preventingharm.org/harmswayreadmore.html
      
      
    • Alison Johnson -- MCS Information Exchange
      http://www.conceptmed.com/Johnson/

      Alison Johnson has also produced three videos on MCS; see EHN's Videos
      ehnlinx/v.htm#Videos

      • Casualties of Progress
        Personal Histories from the Chemically Sensitive
        Alison Johnson, Editor
        Order:
        United States Orders
        Send $14 plus $2 shipping and handling (s&h) book rate or $4 priority mail.

        International Orders
        
        Canada: Send $14 per book, plus $6 s&h each.
        Great Britain and Europe: Send $14 per book, plus $8 s&h each.
        Australia and other countries: Send $14 per book, plus $10 s&h each.
        
        

      • Gulf War Syndrome - Legacy of a Perfect War
        Order:
        
        United States Orders:
        
        Send $14 plus $2 book rate or $4 priority shipping and handling (s&h).
        Order one at the regular rate, and then you can order 3 or more for $6 each, plus $1 s&h each.

        Veterans:
        
        Send $10 plus $2 s&h. Or, purchase a total of 3 or more copies at $6 each, plus $1 s&h each.
        
        
        International Orders:
        
        Canada: Send $14 plus $6 s&h.
        Great Britain and Europe: Send $14 per book, plus $8 s&h each.
        Australia and other countries: Send $14 per book,plus $10 s&h.each.
        International Veterans: Send $10 plus the s&h for your country specified above.
        For bulk orders of 3 or more, please inquire.
        
        
        
        MCS Information Exchange
        Alison Johnson
        2 Oakland Street
        Brunswick, ME 04011

        Note: Alison Johnson's book, Gulf War Syndrome - Legacy of a Perfect War, was
        reviewed in the April 15, 2001 Booklist, Americal Libraries Journal. Ask your libraries to buy
        at least one copy of Gulf War Syndrome - Legacy of a Perfect War. Unfortunately,
        BookList only has up on the web, books reviewed in year 2000 and before. -- barb
        
        

    • Kaye Kilburn, MD
      How common and abundant chemicals affect the brain
      Also check EHN's page K / Kilburn
      Available through Amazon.com
      http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/book-reviews/0471292141/104-3434808-4906835#047129214131000884290423
      
      
      • Career Resume, Kaye Kilburn, MD
        http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~kilburn/

      • Chemical Brain Injury
        Book by Kaye H. Kilburn, MD; reviewed by Marjorie Fisher, NOHA News
        http://www.nutrition4health.org/NOHAnews/ChemicalBrainInjury.htm

      
      
      Dr. Jozef Krop, M.D., a Fellow of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine
      Healing the Planet ONE PATIENT AT A TIME
      ISBN: 0-9731945-0-2
      Published and distributed by:
      KOS Publishing Inc.
      1997 Beechgrove Road
      Alton, ON Canada L0N 1A0
      
      Tel/fax 519.927.1049
      Pages 125 and 126 reference the work of the late Julia Kendall, Betty Bridges, RN and me. -- barb
      See this book and others onE-Magazine's Marketplace
      http://www.emagazine.com/view/?1768
      • College of Physicians' Watchdog
        BROWSE! BE SHOCKED!
        RESOLVE TO BECOME INVOLVED!
        JOIN THE EFFORT TO REFORM MEDICAL POLICY IN CANADA!
        http://www.collegeofphysicianswatchdog.com/scripts/index_.asp

      • Witch Hunts are alive and well in the 21 century - just ask Dr. KROP!
        http://www.friendsoffreedom.org/summer20014.php

      • The Kafkaesque Conviction of Dr. Jozef Krop
        http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/forum/1999/03/dr_krop.html

    • Labor Institute's fine workbook, Multiple Chemical Sensitivies at
      Work: A training Workbook for Working People (1992), which unfortunately is
      no longer available. I've contacted The Labor Institute laborinst@aol.com to see if it could be reprinted.
      
      Sadly, they don't have plans or funding for a reprint. Of course, if your
      management is unwilling to learn, even this fine publication isn't going to help you.

      They still have their video available: MCS: An Emerging Occupational Hazard
      
      Half-hour video -- it is available for $15
      The Labor Institute at laborinst@aol.com or write
      

      The APEX Press,
      Publications Office,
      P.O. Box 337
      Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520
      
      This video was made to accompany their workbook.

      If you are interested in other videos on MCS, please visit EHN's General Links page V, Videos
      ehnlinx/v.htm#Videos

    • Lawson, Lynn
      
      • MCS: Health & Environment
        http://www.mcshealthenviron.org/
        • Canary News
          http://www.mcshealthenviron.org/freeCN.htm
        • What is MCS?
          http://www.mcshealthenviron.org/index.htm

      • Staying Well in a Toxic World
        Understanding Environmental Illness, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, chemical injuries,
        Sick Building Syndrome
        Lynn dedicated her book "To all who are as sick as I was without knowing the cause."
        books/bookordr.htm
        
      • Staying Well in a Toxic World -- new millennium update
        To order directly from Lynn Lawson, send
        $8 plus $2 Shipping & Handling
        (Illinois residents add $0.64 sales tax).
        Make check out to Lynn Lawson and send it to:
        
        Staying Well
        P.O. Box 1732
        Evanston, IL 6020
        • STAYING WELL IN A TOXIC WORLD
          As written up in NOHA NEWS, which Lynn Lawson used to co-edit. -- barb
          http://www.nutrition4health.org/NOHAnews/NNF94Staying%20WellToxicWorld.htm

          
          

        • CanaryNews
          ehnlinx/c.htm#CanaryNews

      • Living Well With Hidden Disabilities
        Stacy Taylor, LCSW, author
        Book chronicles her dissent into illness over the past 8 years.
        She has been diagnosed with Environmental Illness, Fibromyalgia, &
        CFIDS, & offers coping strategies for all hidden disabilities in
        general. Her book is available at most bookstores, or, if not,
        you can ask your bookstore to order it. She is available for
        speaking engagements throughout the Bay Area. You can reach Stacy at
        her email address: taylorepstein@earthlink.net
        
        Available through Barnes & Noble (with reviews)
        http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=49AJGWJPE9&mscssid=XBRUT2EGURSH2L2V00CGND08M7T06JBC&sourceid=00000189930490268244&bfdate=02%2D12%2D2000+15%3A00%3A02&srefer=&isbn=1572241322

      • Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
        Narratives of Coping
        Gail McCormick
        Foreword by Pamela Reed Gibson
        ISBN: 0-7864-0887-1
        304pp. photographs, appendices, resources, index $35 softcover 2001
        http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/action.lasso?-db=Promodat.fp3&-lay=Viewing%20Layout&-format=record%5fdetail.htm&-recid=33804&-find

      • Matthews, Bonnye L.
        (see EHN, Books books/bookordr.htm
        
        Chemical Poisoning, Abraham Lincoln, and Flashdarks:
        The Experience of the Chemically Injured Worker in the United States
        by Bonnye Matthews © 1999
        Available online at FedUp Feds
        http://fedupfeds.org/matthews.htm
        
        
        • Chemical Sensitivity : A Guide to Coping With Hypersensitivity Syndrome,
          Sick Building Syndrome and Other Environmental Illnesses
          books/bookordr.htm
          
          
        • Defining Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
        
        http://ncchem.com/defining_multiple_chemical_sensi.htm
        
        
        • Available through Amazon.com
          http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/book-contents/0786404132/ref%3Dpm%5Fdp%5Fln%5Fb%5F1/104-3434808-4906835

      • McFarland's Books . . . on MCS
        http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/searches/browse_all_categories2.php?cat=Body+%26+Mind%2FChemical+Sensitivity

      • MOLD: THE WAR WITHIN
        A book on the health issues of Hurricane Katrina.
        August 2007
        http://www.moldsolutions.info/

      • Multiple Chemical Sensitivity A Survival Guide
        A must read by Pamela Reed Gibson, PhD
        
        "Professor Gibson has written a book of solid scholarship and
        compassionate understanding about an illness that desperately needs
        both. This is a highly readable work offering inspiration and a
        wealth of knowledgable advice to those afflicted with a
        difficult and frequently misunderstood modern health problem. It
        is a remarkable thing: A book about MCS by a psychologist who knows
        that the illness is not psychological." -- Lynn Lawson M.A.
        author of Staying Well in a Toxic World
        2/23/00: I'm getting my copy tomorrow and am going to go first to
        Part II: Physical Issues, chpt 4 Making Your Enviornment Safe;
        and then Part IV: Disability, Politics and Activism, chpts 13,
        14, 15.
        
        Get through your local book seller, or online through your favorite
        book seller. -- barb

      • National Academy Press
        http://www.nap.edu/index.html
        
        
        • Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: Addendum to Biologic Markers in Immunotoxicology (1992 [Workshop])
          (From National Academy Press Open Book)
          This can be read online and/or printed out. -- barb
          http://books.nap.edu/books/0309047366/html/index.html
          
          
          • Cover
            http://books.nap.edu/books/0309047366/html/R1.html#pagetop
        
        
        
      • Neuropsychological Toxicology
        Book Review: by Richard Alexander
        "Neuropsychological Toxicology: Identification and Assessment of Numan Neurotoxic
        Syndromes. Second Edition. 525 pp. by David E. Hartman. Published by Plenum Press,
        New York, (212-620-8000) $59.50 ISBN 0-306-44922-6. Chapters: Introduction, Evaluation
        of Neurotoxic Syndromes, Metals, Solvents, Alcohol,Drugs, Pesticides, Other Neurotoxins,
        Psychosomatic Disorders, Forensic and Private Practice Issues, References, Index
        
        In the area of toxic tort litigation, this is a significant reference tool and is strongly
        recommended as a "must have" for your library. Written by a Chicago neuropsychologist
        who is a nationally-known clinical expert on human toxic exposure effects,
        Neuropsychological Toxicology is "the" comprehensive reference for attorneys,
        neuropsychologists, physicians, toxicologists and advocates who need information
        about diagnosing the effects of toxic brain injury.
        
        If Dr. Hartman's groundbreaking book can be summarized in three points it is that (1)
        many workplace chemicals and commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals cause brain injury
        and nervous system damage (2) millions of adults and children are exposed to these
        substances at work or at home and (3) the resulting "neurotoxic" damage is a special
        clinical problem that requires a specialized approach in both diagnosis and litigation. ..."
        http://consumerlawpage.com/article/neuro.shtml

      • New Harbinger Books and Tapes
        http://www.newharbinger.com/
        
        
      • Nolo Press - Legal Tips and Tools YOU can use
        
        • Take Charge of Your Worker¼s Compensation Claim:
          An A to Z Guide for Injured Employees (California)
          http://www.nolo.com/product/WORK/summary_WORK.html?t=00010011503202000ProductID*115

        • Worker¼s Compensation: What to Do If You're Injured on the Job (California)
          http://www.nolo.com/product/WK1C/summary_WK1C.html?t=00010012003202000ProductID*120

        • Your Rights in the Workplace
          http://www.nolo.com/product/YRW/summary_YRW.html?t=00010019003202000ProductID*190

      • NYCAP's book/video recommendations regarding pest control (scroll down)
        http://www.crisny.org/not-for-profit/nycap/info.htm

      • On-line Biology Book
        http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookIMMUN.html

      • Our Bodies Our Selves
        Boston Women's Health Book Collective
        http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/obos.htm

      • Our Stolen Future - Home
        a book by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers
        http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/index.htm

        Overcoming Thyroid Disorders by David Brownstein, MD Medical Alternatives Press (4173 Fieldbrook Rd., West Bloomfield, Michigan 48323 USA); www.drbrownstein.com; 1-888-647-5616. Softcover, 2002, US/$15, 272pp. Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients; December 2002
        http://www.townsendletter.com/Dec2002/thyroid1202.htm

      • Pesticides in the Atmosphere
        By Michael S. Majewski
        USGS
        http://water.wr.usgs.gov/pnsp/pest.rep/atmos.html
        • Pesticides in the Atmosphere
          U.S. Geological Survey, Fact Sheet FS-152-95
          Current Understanding of Distribution and Major Influences
          http://water.wr.usgs.gov/pnsp/atmos/
      • PREVENTING BREAST-CANCER:
        The story of a Major, Proven, Preventable Cause of This Disease.
        John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. 1996; Second Edition: 1996
        April 5, 1998: COMPLETE BOOK now on-line!
        "This book uncovers the major cause of the recent breast-cancer incidence
        in the USA. The author shows that past exposure to ionizing radiation ---
        primarily medical x-rays --- is responsible for about 75 percent of the
        breast-cancer problem in the United States.

        "The good news: Since the radiation dosage given today by medical
        procedures can be significantly reduced without interfering with a single
        useful procedure, numerous future cases of breast-cancer can be prevented.
        
        "The author recommends specific actions to start breast-cancer
        prevention now, not ten years from now.
        http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PBC/index.html

        • Chapter 1 - Our Conclusion: A Large Share of Breast-Cancers Need Not Occur
          "We begin this book with our bottom line, because we think the advice of Sara Jeannette
          Duncan is good: "If you have anything of importance to tell me, please, please
          begin at the end!" So here is our conclusion:
          
          "Breast-cancer is a largely preventable disease, and we reach that good news because of
          our finding that a large share of recent and current breast-cancer in the United
          States is certainly due to past medical irradiation of the breasts with x-rays --- at all ages,
          including infancy and childhood. Much of today's radiation dosage is preventable,
          without any interference with necessary diagnostic radiology, and hence many future
          breast-cancers need not occur. ..."
          http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PBC/chp1F.html

        • Breast Cancer-Free Zones: Why Not? An Effective Way to Begin
          http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PBC/BCfreeZones.html

        • Mammography: An Individual's Estimated Risk that the Examination
          Itself Will Cause Radiation-Induced Breast Cancer
          http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PBC/mammography.html

      • Peter Radetsky, Bill Phillips (Editor)
        
        • Allergic to the Twentieth Century : The Explosion in Environmental Allergies--From Sick Buildings to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
          
          • Reviewed by Scientific American
            http://www.sciam.com/0997issue/0997review3.html
            
          • Reviewed by Paul Lappen 12/25/97
            http://www.silcom.com/~manatee/radetsky_allergic.html
        
        
        
      • Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World: 101 Smart Solutions for Every Family
        By Phillip Landrigan, Herbert L. Needleman, Philip J. Landrigan, Mary M. Landrigan
        http://www.hometown.aol.com/landriganp/index.html

      • Dr. Doris Rapp
        http://www.drrapp.com/
        
        
        • Books and videos
          http://www.drrapp.com/Resources/Books/books.html
        
        
        
      • Rating Guide to Environmentally Healthy Metro Areas
        http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rweinhold/index.html
        
        
        • Order form
          http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rweinhold/order.html
        
        
        
      • The Rebellious Body
        Reclaim Your Life from Environmental Illness or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
        The book
        byJanice Strubbe Wittenberg, R.N.
        http://members.cruzio.com/~johnw/index.html
        
        
      • The Rev. Linda Reinhardt
        We Can't Have It Both Ways: A Reasoned Approach to Understanding MCS
        "... We Can't Have It Both Ways takes the reader, concisely and simply through a
        progression of brief, logical articles aimed at gently, yet methodically, dispelling the
        doubts and skepticism in a non-medical context. ..."
        ehnlinx/bbooks.htm#Reinhardt

        
        

      • Safe Shoppers Bible
        D. Steinman and S. S. Epstein. New York, September, 1995:
        MacMillan Publishing Company
        http://www.preventcancer.com/ssb.htm
        
        
        
      • Secrets and Lies
        Native Forest Action
        
        An important book has been launched: 'Secrets and Lies ‚ the anatomy of an
        anti-environmental PR campaign', written by New Zealand writer/researcher
        Nicky Hager and Australian environmental journalist Bob Burton.
        http://www.converge.org.nz/nfa/secrets.htm
        
        
      • Janette D. Sherman, M.D.
        Life's Delicate Balance - Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer
        "[D]efines and documents known causes of breast cancer, and emphasizes the
        means of prevention.
        and
        CHEMICAL EXPOSURE AND DISEASE -
        The Professional and Layperson¼s Guide to Understanding Cause and Effect
        "Chemical Exposure and Disease is a must for all activists, whether lay or
        professional, who want to prevent disease. "
        http://www.janettesherman.org/order.html
        • Dr. Janette Sherman
          Physician • Author • Activist • Mom
          http://www.janettesherman.org/
          • More on Mammograms
            "Thursday, March 7, 2002, Letters to the Editor, The Washington Post, Page A20
            " In regard to the Feb. 22 front-page article about mammograms:
            First, a mammogram does not prevent cancer; it can only find an existing cancer.
            
            "Second, safer methods of diagnosis (without X-rays) are available, including thorough physical examinations, ultrasound, MRI and thermography. The last takes a heat picture showing the physiological function breast tissue. Thermography is available in France, Australia and some centers in the United States. Given that every mammogram, indeed every X-ray procedure, carries an increased risk of causing cancer, development of this safe, non-radiation technique should be a priority. ..." JANETTE D. SHERMAN, MD
            Alexandria, Virginia
            http://www.janettesherman.org/updates.html
        • Dr. Sherman's books also available from Safe2Use. -- barb
          http://www.safe2use.com/drsherman/about-author.htm

      • State of the Evidence: What is the Connection between
        Chemicals & Breast Cancer?
        edited by Nancy Evans
        © 2003 by The Breast Cancer Fund and Breast Cancer Action
        http://www.breastcancerfund.org/environment_evidence_main.htm#contents

      • John C. Stauber, Sheldon Rampton
        
        • Toxic Sludge Is Good for You! : Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry
          (Available online at your favorite book dealer or most likely through your local
          bookstore: paperback,Ý240pp.; ISBN --Ý1567510604; JanuaryÝ1996; first edition)
          http://www.prwatch.org/tsigfy.html
          
          
          • Earl A. Killian reviews Toxic Sludge is Good for You!
            http://www.killian.com/earl/books.html#Stauber1995
            
            
            • Quotes from Toxic Sludge ...
              http://www.killian.com/earl/ToxicSludgeQuotes.html
        • MAD COW USA: Could the Nightmare Happen Here?
          http://www.prwatch.org/books/madcow.html

        • Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry
          Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
          http://www.prwatch.org/books/experts.html

        
        
        
      • Staying Well in a Toxic World: Understanding Environmental Illness,
        Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Chemical Injuries, Sick Building Syndrome
        By Lynn Lawson.
        Staying Well ... is not just a self-help book. Instead, it discusses what our illness says about
        our world. It takes on the larger issues of politics, the environment, history, sociology and the
        medical establishment. 488 pp. 1993
        Available through EHN
        books/bookordr.htm

      • Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.
        
        • Living Downsteam: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
          http://www.Steingraber.com/
        
        
      • Sunshine Sentinel Press
        http://www.icanect.net/sunpress
        
        
        • THE CACOF CONSPIRACY
          http://members.icanect.net/~sunpress/new_book.htm
        
        
        
      • Sustainable Building Sourcebook
        http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/contents.html
        
        
        • Paints, Finishes and Adhesives
          http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/finishesadhesives.html
          
          
      • Stephen Tveden
        The Best Control - book on CD ROM only
        "The Best Control is easily searched and contains a compilation of information,
        direction and advice currently being utilized by pest control experts, schools and
        individuals all over the country. It gives step-by-step directions for using common
        household items and other safe methods of pest problem solving that can be used to
        discourage and rid yourself of many of your worst pests. ..."
        Avaliable through Safe2Use, but with donation to EHN. Thanks to Linda!
        If you click on this link, you will bounce to a page that will take you to an online shopping cart.
        EHN will be given a donation as a result of your purchase. Thank you.
        http://www.nice2people.com/ehn-order.htm

        
        

      • To Do No Harm
        "INVISIBLE CRIPPLES" Sample] Chapter [15]
        "YOU DON'T SEE PEOPLE with chemical sensitivities in the
        hardware store, with its strong odours of fresh rubbers, plastics,
        and paints (1,3-butadiene, benzene, xylene). ..."
        http://www.rowatworks.com/Science/To_Do_No_Harm/Invisible_Cripples.html
        
        
      • Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science,
        Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health
        by Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle, and the Center for Public Integrity, 2nd ed, 280 pp,
        $29.95, ISBN 1-56751-162-7, paper, 18.95, ISBN 1-56751-163-5, Monroe, Me, Common
        Courage Press, Washington, DC, Center for Public Integrity, 1999.
        Reviewed by James E. Cone, MD, MPH
        http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v283n1/ffull/jbk0500-1.html
        
        
        • Available through Amazon.com: Hard Cover, As New/Birch Lane Books, 1996. First printing, As New, 294 pages., Man vs. Nature; Man Made Disaster enviromental hazards
          
          Paperback - 250 pages 2nd edition (April 1999)
          LPC; ISBN: 1567511627 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.93 x 9.03 x 5.97
          
          http://www.amazon.com/

      • Toxic Sludge is Good for You!
        Also see John C. Stauber
        http://www.prwatch.org/tsigfy.html
        
        
      • Linda Weltner's Family Puzzles: A Private Life Made Public
        is going out of print in January and is now being offered by my publisher at
        half-price -- $6.98.
        
        These are the personal columns that are closest to my heart --
        columns on being a daughter, sister, wife, daughter-in-law, mother,
        and grandmother, as well as being myself.
        
        You can get it sent directly to you, or the person for whom it's
        intended, by calling 1-800-367-5872.
        
        I wish you a very happy, stress-free holiday.
        
        Linda Weltner
        "Ever So Humble"
        Thursdays in the Boston Globe
        
        
      • UPLIFT: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors "... a handbook of practical tips and upbeat anecdotes for those with breast cancer. ..."
        By Barbara Delinsky
        http://www.teamuplift.com/
        Other books by Barbara Delinsky
        http://www.barbaradelinsky.com/library/index.html

      • Cynthia Wilson CIIN
        
        • Porphyrinogenic Substances by Cynthia Wilson (1996)
          
        • The Human Consequences of the Chemical Problem by Cindy Duehring and Cynthia Wilson (1994)
          
        • Chemical Exposure and Human Health by Cynthia Wilson (1993)
          http://www.ciin.org/books.htm
      • Duff Wilson
        Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret
        "Seattle Times investigative reporter Duff Wilson has written a
        new book based on his Pulitzer-Prize finalist work on the fertilizer
        industry. The book explores the story of Patty Martin, mother
        and mayor of the small farming town of Quincy, Wash. who
        uncovered a toxic problem with the area's most widely used
        fertilizer. Wilson investigated further and found that industries
        throughout the U.S. were selling their toxic waste to fertilizer
        makers without the public knowing. Wilson's research helped
        change fertilizer disclosure laws."
        http://www.seattletimescompany.com/newsroom/newsandnotes.htm

      
      
      
      
    -- end books --
    

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    Borax or Boric Acid
    

    • Boric acid
      RTECS #: ED4550000 ; CAS #: 10043-35-3
      Includes as a synonym, Borofax. -- barb
      The Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances

    • Borax, Pesticide Fact Sheet
      Prepared for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service by Information Ventures, Inc.
      http://infoventures.com/e-hlth/pestcide/borax.html
      
      Borax to Control Creeping Charlie
      "...We do not recommend its use because borax products are not labeled as weed killers.
      However, if you still want to try it, the following information may prove helpful. ..."
      http://www.extension.umn.edu/yardandgarden/YGLNews/YGLN-Feb0103.html#borax

    • Boric Acid/Borax
      http://www.exoticbird.com/gillian/boric.html
      Safety (MSDS) data for boric acid
      http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/BO/boric_acid.html

    
    Born to Explore! The Other Side of ADD
    http://borntoexplore.org/
    
    
  • Boston Society of Architects
    Tackles IAP (indoor air pollution)
    http://www.architects.org/

    Boston Women's Health Book Collective
    authors of Our Bodies,Ourselves for the New Century
    http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/
    
    

    ---

    Botanicals
    See Herbs at ehnlinx/h.htm#Herbs

    Bottled Water
    

    • NRDC's "Bottled Water - Pure Drink or Pure Hype?"
      http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/chap1.asp

    Bovine ...
    
    
  • rBGH
    
    • Bovine Growth Hormone
      http://www.enviroweb.org/issues/biotech/bgh/
      • Milk does nobody good... (BGH cliff notes version)
        by Mike Ewall
        Environmental Research Foundation's
        RACHEL's Environment & Health Weekly Issues
        http://www.enviroweb.org/issues/biotech/bgh/

    • Shirely's Wellness Cafe
      Genetically engineered Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH/BST) in your milk:
      Why is BGH is banned in Europe and Canada?
      Mad Cows Disesase Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
      " Both the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Consumer's Union, publisher
      of Consumer Reports magazine, have warned of the potential hazards to human
      health caused by consuming products derived from rBGH-treated cows.
      http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/1158/BGH.HTM

    • Bovine Growth Hormone - USDA
      PUBLICATION DATE:March 1994
      http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/Biblios/qb9410.html

    • Health Issue Alert -
      Genetically engineered Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH/BST)
      in your milk: Why is BGH is banned in Europe and Canada?
      Mad Cows Disesase Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
      "Both the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Consumer's Union,
      publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, have warned of the potential hazards to
      human health caused by consuming products derived from rBGH-treated cows.
      Shirley's Wellness Cafe
      http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/1158/Bgh.htm

  • Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease)
    
    • BSE Crisis - Guardian Unlimited© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2000
      http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/bse/

    • BSE Inquiry HomePage
      http://www.bse.org.uk/

    • Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) - US Dept of Agriculture
      http://www.aphis.usda.gov/oa/bse/

    • Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
      - European Commission "Food Safety from the farm to the fork"
      http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/bse/index_en.html

    
    The BOX (Bay Area Organic eXpress)
    (Website under development.)
    
    "If you're trying to stay HEALTHY, why are you still eating POISONS?"
    Two box sizes: $25 and $35
    Two delivery schedules: Every Week, Every two weeks
    Three selections: Fruits and Veggies, Fruits only, Veggies only
    
    Call 1.415.695.9688 for details.
    
    The Box
    P.O. Box 460411
    San Francisco, CA 94146-0411
    
    
    Boycotts
    
    • Boycott Action News - Co-Op America
      http://www.coopamerica.org/Boycotts/bancover.htm
      
      
    • Boycott Resources - EnviroLink
      http://www.envirolink.org/environews/boycotts.news.html
      
      
    • Boycott Proctor & Gamble
      http://members.tripod.com/skister_2/pg.html
  
  
  Brain
  Also use your web browser's find command to look for "brain" throughout this page. -- barb
  
  • Brain on drugs, This is your future
    åListening to Prozac¼ author looks ahead to the next level
    By Jeremy Kay; FEED MAGAZIN
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/284615.asp

  • Brain & fragrances
    Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography
    (SPECT) Scan of MCS Patient's Brain
    Before and After Challenge with Perfume Inhalation
    Brenda McLaughlin worked with Julia Kendall to help get the truth out about fragrances. -- barb
    Jacki and Gordon's site
    http://www.ourlittleplace.com/spect.html

  • Brain Injury and CFIDS and MCS
    "The following are transcripts from a presentation given by Dr. Jay Seastrunk at the
    1997 CFIDS Awareness Conference held at Saddleback Hospital in Laguna Hills, Ca,
    June 1, 1997. "
    http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/6028/list1.htm
    • Brain SPECT Scan has been used in the diagnosis of MCS/CFIDS/GWS
      http://ncchem.com/brain.htm

  • Brain Injury and Murder
    
    • The Psychopath's Brain
      Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhD
      http://www.epub.org.br/cm/n07/doencas/disease_i.htm

  • Brain Injury and Perfume
    
    • Acute asthma - acute tachycardia - anaylactic reactions caused by Fragrance & Perfume In January of 1995 11 young Algerians deceased, ...
      http://www.tox-doc.com/englisch/duft.htm

  • BRAIN MAPPING
    
    • Brain Mapping the Chemically Sensitive by Donald L. Dudley,M.D., Seattle.
      http://members.aol.com/DonationDrive/BrainMapping.html

    • CARPET CONCERNS
      Part Four: Physicians Speak Up As Medical Evidence Mounts
      by Cindy Duehring
      http://www.holisticmed.com/carpet/tc4.txt

      Note: We lost Cindy Duehring, June 29, 1999. Her work lives on to guide us. For more
      information and other links to Cindy's work, please visit EHN's page D, Duehring. -- barb
      ehnlinx/d.htm#Duehring

    • Changing Dogma: New Tricks for the Old Brain
      (Neurogenesis in Adult Humans)
      By Ellen Kuwana; Neuroscience for Kids Staff Writer; November 19, 1998
      Brought to you by Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D., University of Washington. -- barb
      http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurogen.html

    • Chemical Brain Injury
      Book by Kaye H. Kilburn, MD; reviewed by Marjorie Fisher, NOHA News
      http://www.nutrition4health.org/NOHAnews/ChemicalBrainInjury.htm

    • Chemical Poisoning, Abraham Lincoln, and Flashdarks:
      The Experience of the Chemically Injured Worker in the United States
      by Bonnye Matthews © 1999
      http://www.unifycoalition.org/Chemical%20Poisoning.htm

    • Diagnostic Markers of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
      G. Heuser, A Wojdani, and S Heuser; pages 117 - 138
      To quickly save PDF file for printing, just change the page numbers sequentially in the URL and hit Enter. -- barb
      http://books.nap.edu/books/0309047366/html/117.html

    • The Human Nervous System
      http://www.hubin.org/facts/brain/texts/nervous_systems_en.html

    • QEEG/EEG - FAQs
      http://www.appliedneurosciences.com/articles/qeegfaq.htm

  • Brain Wiring
    http://www.brainwiring.com/html/attention.html
    
    Dr. William Frey, a neuroscientist at the Alzheimer's Research Center
    
    • BrainLand
      Nasal Spray Could Take Drugs Direct to Brain
      By datamaster, linked from Reuters
      http://www.brainland.com/indiv_news.cfm?ID=323

    • Breakthrough in Bypassing the Blood-Brain Barrier;
      Are Patients With Neurological Disorders Receiving the Best Medications?
      "...The method is an intranasal delivery system, using the olfactory and trigeminal nerve
      pathways (located within the upper nasal cavity). These nerve fibers are responsible
      for sensing odors and chemicals, and according to Dr. Frey, are capable of carrying
      therapeutic agents directly to the brain and spinal cord. ..."
      http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-12-2002/0001798762&EDATE=

    • Nasal Drug Delivery
      From New Scientist, By Alison Motluk 09/05/98
      "[T]he olfactory system provides a direct link between the brain and the outside world." http://hdlighthouse.org/see/drugs/nose.htm

  • Functional imaging of effects of fragrances on the human brain after prolonged inhalation.
    Nasel C, Nasel B, Samec P, Schindler E, Buchbauer G.
    Department of Radiology, University of Vienna, AKH-Wien, Austria; PubMed
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7812728&dopt=Abstract

  • Gulf War troops' brains 'damaged'
    By Michael Evans, Defence Editor; British News, Times, June 20, 2002
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-332325,00.html

  • MCS - Multiple-Chemical-Sensitivity
    (Chemikalienunvertr”glichkeit)
    Deutsche Gesellschaft Multiple-Chemical-Sensitivity-Syndrom (MCS-Syndrom), Bayreuth
    A series of abstracts including information on the brain/central nervous system. -- barb
    http://dgmcs.de/pub/mdli.htm

  • MCS/Organic Brain Syndrome http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/personal-injury/msg03519.html

  • "Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS): What It Is, What It Is Not,
    And How It Is Manifested"
    By Shelia Bastien, PhD
    As it appeared by permission in EHN's The New Reactor, July - August 2001
    newreact/sbastien.htm

    NBC30.com
    http://www.nbc30.com

    • Some Insect Repellents May Damage Brain
      Research: Prolonged Exposure Killed Brain Cells In Rats
      POSTED: 10:43 a.m. EDT May 2, 2002; NBC30.com
      Caution on prolonged use of products containingDEET . -- barb
      http://www.nbc30.com/health/1430327/detail.html

      For more information, see EHN's
      General Links, page I / Insects
      ehnlinx/i.htm#Insect

      Pest Mgt & Pesticide Info (including information on toxins hidden in INERTS) ehnlinx/pestcide.htm

  • Neurotin and the Brain article
    http://www.csranet.com/~vlmckie/wwwboard/messages/12071.html

  • ORGANIC SOLVENTS DAMAGE BRAIN AND CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
    RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY #137 ---July 11, 1989---
    http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r137.html

    .

  • SYMPTOMS AND BRAIN SCANS OF DAMAGE MATCH UP:
    FURTHER EVIDENCE OF GULF WAR SYNDROME
    Radiological Society of North America, Founded in 1915
    http://www.radiologyinfo.org/content/news/press_rel/pr112700-4.htm

  • Testimony of Robert W. Haley, M.D.
    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
    "...[R]esearch on the nature and causes of Gulf War syndrome ..."
    http://www.house.gov/reform/ns/statements_witness/haley_jan_24.htm

  • The Voice of the Head Injured
    http://whis.nzl.org/
    • RECENT FINDINGS - Fragrances, Air Fresheners, Gasoline, Carpets.
      http://whis.nzl.org/snftaas/pt19.html

    • 6. Solvent Neurotoxicity
      http://whis.nzl.org/injury/neurotox.html

    • Why is chemical brain injury ignored? Pondering causes and risks.(Editorial)
      Archives of Environmental Health, March, 2003, by Kaye H. Kilburn
      Dr. Kilburn writes, in part:
      "I presume that the numerous factors that currently slow both individuals' and society's
      acceptance of chemicals as major causes of diseases are the same as those that created
      opposition so many years ago to the demonstration that fecal contamination of water
      caused cholera. I think it imperative to identify 13 such factors. ...
      
      "3. 'It's all in your head.' Sometimes physicians dismiss unfamiliar problems of patients
      with this rejoinder, implying that the perceived problem stems from a mind disorder
      or a psychiatric problem. Seldom is the broader, literal interpretation made--that "in your
      head" means a brain problem. While 'mind' may be a nebulous concept, brain
      dysfunction is susceptible to orderly, objective investigation. It is strange that few
      psychiatrists, when evaluating chemically exposed patients, consider that the depression,
      mania, and other disorders they treat with drugs (chemicals) could be caused by
      other chemicals. Instead, the tendency is to prescribe more chemicals (drugs), thus
      further poisoning the brains of such patients. "
      http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0907/3_58/109023553/print.jhtml
      
      

    -- end brain --

  
  
  Breast Health
  Also see EHN's sections on: Breast Augmentation / Breast Implants
  
  Breast Cancer section also under EHN's section onCancer
  ehnlinx/c.htm#Cancer

  Also, check out EHN's Cancer-Cosmetic Connection?
  ehnlinx/c.htm#Connection

  
  

  Breast cancer topics are found throughout this section and also under EHN's Cancer Info
  ehnlinx/c.htm#Cancer
  
  • Breast Implant and the FDA
    I've never considered having breast implants, but if I were of the mind to have breast augmentation,
    I'd sure listen to the people who've had problems and I'd listen to the researchers who raise
    questions and bring forth information that is the antithesis of what I wanted to hear. -- barb
    
    • The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
      Tuesday, October 28, 2003
      "... The FDA ruled that saline-filled breast implants made by at least one company,
      Mentor Corporation, are safe and meet the agency's requirements and may continue
      to be marketed. Decisions on whether other breast implant companies will continue to
      market their products will be determined are expected over the next few days. ..."
      http://surgery.org/press/news-breast-12.asp

    • FDA
      So You¼re Considering Saline-Filled Breast Implant Surgery
      http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/breastimplants/labeling/inamed_patient_labeling_5900.html

    • MSNBC
      åSilicone Valley¼ eyes FDA ruling
      "Will traffic swell for plastic surgeons now that implants near approval? In California,
      breast augmentation surgery has now replaced liposuction as the top plastic surgery
      procedure for women. CNBC¼s Jane Wells looks at its popularity on the West Coast.
      By Jane Wells
      http://www.msnbc.com/news/980650.asp

  • Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York State
    Safe Use and Storage of Hazardous Household Products
    March 1999; Fact Sheet #22
    http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/FactSheet/General/fs22.safeUse.cfm

  • Breast Implant Cover-up Memo DOW Chemical
    "... The issue of cover-up is going well from a long-term perspective. We are moving
    rapidly ahead on our press conference, and all things appear to be in place for that with
    the exception of the University of Michigan study being finalized. I did talk to four
    other presidents of the main breast implant manufacturers on Friday, and they have
    given us the go-ahead on discussing the NYU study. ..." If this doesn't epitomize what those of us living with MCS are up against, I don't know what does. -- barb
    http://www.homestead.com/sosalines/DowCoverupDocument.html

  • Dr. Levin's Response to Breast Augmentation:

    This is my response to a young lady from London who is considering breast implants:
    Please post.

    I recommend that you not have breast implants. The evidence that they are dangerous
    is overwhelming. The evidence that they are safe is mostly fraudulant. I would be
    willing to publically debate anyone, anywhere, at anytime on that issue.

    Remember that it took 17 years of hard, hard fighting to reverse the manufacturer
    manipulated and judicially sanctioned bogus science on dioxin (Agent Orange). I
    recommend you not become a victim of the greedy, perverted breast implant
    advocates who have totally prostituted the field of immunology in medicine.

    -- Al Levin MD, JD

    Also see Al Levin MD, JD under EHN's category, Doctors
    
    

  • Beauty and the Breast: How Industry Sold Implants to Women
    by John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton; PR Watch
    http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q1/silicone12.html

  • Confidence Game: Burson-Marsteller's PR Plan for Silicone Breast Implants
    by John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton; PR Watch
    http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q1/silicone10.html

  Breast Cancer (under category, Cancer)
  ehnlinx/c.htm#Cancer

  Mammogram
  ehnlinx/m.htm#Mammogram

  Silicone Implants
  ehnlinx/s.htm#Silicone

  Thermography
  ehnlinx/t.htm#Thermography

  X-Ray
  ehnlinx/x.htm#X-Rays

  And a personal note: IF I were interested in breast health, as well as brain health, I'd explore
  the superfluous toxins in our commonly and unwittingly used consumer products such as
  synthetic fragrances, fertilizers and pesticides. Info available through EHN's site, just go to www.ehnca.org -- barb
  
  

  • Breast Cancer Action
    http://www.bcaction.org
    • Newsletter #16‚February 1993
      Greenpeace and Same Epstein: A Powerful Combination
      by Deborah and Susan Claymon
      http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/1993Newsletters/Newsletter016A.html

    • Newsletter #16‚February 1993 Ionizing Radiation: Part TwoãMammography Screening
      by Linda Reyes
      "The focus on mammographic screening that uses ionizing radiation as
      an early detection method for breast cancer began in 1972 with the
      American Cancer Society (ACS) and the National Cancer Institute
      (NCI). These agencies ignored or glossed over the documented,
      published findings available in 1970 that clearly established the
      causal connection between exposure of the human breast to ionizing
      radiation and breast cancer. ..."
      http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/1993Newsletters/Newsletter016C.html

      Newsletter #16‚February 1993 Leading Women's Magazines Misrepresent Breast Cancer Message by Nancy Evans
      http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/1993Newsletters/Newsletter016I.html

    • Newsletter #57‚January/February 2000
      Researchers at UCSF/Mt. Zion Launch Alternative Medicine Clinical Trials
      by Edare K. Carroll
      http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/2000Newsletters/Newsletter057A.html

    • Welcome to Cancerland - 03 Feb 2004
      http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/LearnAboutUs/WelcomeToCancerland.html

    BREAST CANCER: BEYOND CONVENTION - book
    The World'S Foremost Authorities on Complementary and
    Alternative Medicine Offer Advice On Healing
    Edited by Mary Tagliaferri, M.D.
    By Isaac Cohen, M.D. and Debu Tripathy, M.D.
    Due out in June 2002, Pocket Books
    416 pages, $27.00; Hardcover; ISBN: 0-743-41011-4
    
    
    
  • Breast Cancer Deception
    by Sherrill Sellman
    http://www.innerself.com/Health/breast_cancer.htm

  • Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factor (BCERF)
    Cornell University
    http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/bcerf/bibliography/pesticide/bib.pyrethroid.cfm

  • Breast Cancer Forum to Raise Awareness of Lab's Vital Research
    By David Gilbert; LBL
    http://www.lbl.gov/Publications/Currents/Archive/Aug-10-2001.html#Mina

  • Breast Cancer Options
    Cosmetics and Fragranced Products Pose High Risks for Breast Cancer and Other Illnesses
    by James W. Coleman, Ph.D.
    http://www.charityadvantage.com/mhop/cosmeticsandfragranced.asp
    A couple of other articles by Dr. Coleman:
    
    • "Cosmetics and Beverage Alcohol with
      Carcinogenic and Estrogenic Links to Breast Cancer"
      by James W. Coleman, Ph.D.,Cancer Research Center of America, Inc, Louisville, KY
      "Annually, tens of thousands of women are condemned to die of breast cancer 20 years prematurely because of poor lifestyle choices. To help reduce the high incidence of breast cancer and its recurrence, women are advised to become well informed about the potential sources and origins of this disease and its epidemiology. It is within a medical certainty that breast cancer is caused by ionizing radiation or carcinogenic chemicals or a combination of both. These agents cause breast cells to grow out of control resulting in malignant tumors. ..."
      http://www.understandingbreastcancer.com/cosmetics.htm

    • Cosmetics and breast cancer By James W. Coleman, Ph.D., Cancer Research Center of America, Inc
      http://www.cancerresearchamerica.org/cosmetics.html
      
      
    • Link between Cosmetics and Cancer Being Studied
      An editorial that appeared November 13, 2000 in the Readers' Forum, Louisville Courier-Journal.
      By James W. Coleman, Ph.D., Cancer Research Center of America, Inc
      actnletr/lcedcole.htm

  • Breast Cancer Prevention
    NOHA News
    http://www.nutrition4health.org/NOHAnews/NNF88BrCanPrev.htm

  • Breast Cancer Research Project
    http://www.healthybreasts.info
    • ABOUT DCIS
      "Ductal Carcinoma in Situ or DCIS is a pre-cancerous condition in which dysplasic cells
      or metaplasia is encapsulated in the mammary ducts. ..."
      http://www.healthybreasts.info/dcis.htm

    • BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
      http://www.healthybreasts.info/directors.htm

    • THERMOGRAPHY
      " What is Thermography? Thermography is a non-contact technique for early detection of breast cancer without the hazard of carcinogenic radiation. (1) The infrared camera takes thermal images (pictures) that can detect subtle changes in breast physiology up to 10 years before a cancerous tumor can be detected by other sources such as mammography or skilled palpation. This is the most reliable form of early detection though not often used by the medical field, it is becoming more readily available. Thermography has a 9% for both false positive and false negative readings. (2) Thermography is painless and offers a view of the entire chest and underarm area. ..."
      "(1) Report from the National Academy of Sciences, 1987, shows the carcinogenic effects of X-ray
      radiation is ten times greater that expected. Seldman, et al., Survival experience in the Breast
      Cancer Demonstration Project, Cancer, Vol 37, No. 5, pages 258-290. 1987. Amiric, Giraud,
      Altschuler, Spitalier
      "(2)Value and Interest of Dynamic Telethermography in Detection of Breast Cancer, ACTA
      Thermographica, Vol. 1, Num. 2, pages 89-96, 1976. ..."
      http://www.healthybreasts.info/thermography.htm

    
    
  • Breast Health in Australia -- THERMOGRAPHY
    http://www.meditherm.com/breasthealth/
    
    
  • Breast Implants - Are they worth the risk?
    
    Scroll to bottom for THE BREAST IMPLANT CHEMICAL POISON LIST. -- barb
    http://www.internet-connect.com/implants/next.html
    • Fact sheet
      http://www.internet-connect.com/implants/facts.html
  • Breast thermography.com
    http://www.breastthermography.com/
    • Breast Cancer Facts and Figures
      http://www.breastthermography.com/breast_cancer_facts.htm

    • FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions
      http://www.breastthermography.com/breast_thermography_faq.htm

  • Breast thermography.org
    http://www.breastthermography.org/

  • Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center, UCSF
    http://breastcarecenter.ucsfmedicalcenter.org/healthcareteam.html
    • Isaac Cohen, L.Ac., O.M.D
      Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist
      Consultant and research, Breast Care Center UCSF
      http://breastcarecenter.ucsfmedicalcenter.org/icohen.html
      • Breast Cancer: Beyond Convention -- The World's Foremost
        Authorities on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Offer Advice on Healing
        by Mary, MD Tagliaferri (Editor), Isaac Cohen (Editor), Debu Tripathy (Editor)
        http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743410114/ref%3Dbr%5Fb%5Fnr%5F5/104-9022039-6823135

        Also available in Berkeley at Cody's
        http://www.codysbooks.com/product/info.jsp?isbn=0743410114

      
      
  • Cancer Prevention Coalition, Inc.(CPC)
    Dr. Samuel S. Epstein
    Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the School of Public Health,
    University of Illinois Medical Center Chicago
    http://www.preventcancer.com/
    
    
  • 'Computers, chemicals and cancer'
    First published in Chatelaine's October 1998 issue.
    http://www.chatelaine.com/read/health/comp_cancer.html

  • Do Fragrance Chemicals Play a Role in Breast Cancer?
    By Betty Bridges, RN
    http://www.fpinva.org/Editorials/cancer.htm

  • Estrogen Receptor-Negative Breast Cancer
    National Cancer Institute (http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter)
    http://rex.nci.nih.gov/behindthenews/uest/uest17/uest17.htm

  • FATAL FALLOUT: The Dangers of Ionizing Radiation
    by Gary Null, PhD, Ernest Sternglass, PhD & Jay Gould, PhD
    Copyright 2002, Gary Null & Associates
    http://www.garynull.com/Article.aspx?article=/Documents/FatalFallout/FatalFallout.htm
    • PART I: The Radiation Cover-Up
      http://www.garynull.com/Article.aspx?article=/Documents/FatalFallout/FatalFallout.htm

  • Geographic Variations in Breast Cancer Incidence:
    Focus on the Bay Area.
    Symposium presented by the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center/Breast Oncology Program,
    Buck Institute for Age Research, and Northern California Cancer Center
    http://cc.ucsf.edu/brca/index.html
    Presentations
    http://cc.ucsf.edu/brca/program.html

  • InnerSelf
    Breast Cancer Deception
    by Sherrill Sellman
    Section: Mammograms: Adding Injury to Insult!
    http://www.innerself.com/Health/breast_cancer_2.htm

  • Male Breast Cancer
    • Breast Cancer in Men
      http://interact.withus.com/interact/mbc/

    • Male Breast Cancer
      Carol EH Scott-Conner, MD, PhD
      Department of Surgery
      The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
      Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1086
      http://www.surgery.uiowa.edu/surgery/oncology/malebreastcancer.html

    • Men Can Get Breast Cancer Too
      SwissTox.net
      http://www.swisstox.net/en/news_e.php?st_lang_key=en&st_news_id=1044

  • The Millennium Debate.org
    More than 350 pollutants found in British breast milk
    "More than 350 contaminants have been found in the breast milk of British women.
    They include chemicals from perfumes, suntan oil, and dry cleaning fluids, as well as
    pesticides and industrial raw materials, some of which cause cancer, impair the immune
    system and disrupt sex hormones. "
    By Geoffrey Lean, Environment correspondent; 11 July 1999
    http://www.millennium-debate.org/indsun11july.htm

  • PREVENTING BREAST-CANCER:
    The story of a Major, Proven, Preventable Cause of This Disease.
    John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. 1996; Second Edition: 1996
    April 5, 1998: COMPLETE BOOK now on-line!
    "This book uncovers the major cause of the recent breast-cancer incidence
    in the USA. The author shows that past exposure to ionizing radiation ---
    primarily medical x-rays --- is responsible for about 75 percent of the
    breast-cancer problem in the United States.

    "The good news: Since the radiation dosage given today by medical
    procedures can be significantly reduced without interfering with a single
    useful procedure, numerous future cases of breast-cancer can be prevented.
    
    "The author recommends specific actions to start breast-cancer
    prevention now, not ten years from now.
    http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PBC/index.html

    • Chapter 1 - Our Conclusion: A Large Share of Breast-Cancers Need Not Occur
      "We begin this book with our bottom line, because we think the advice of Sara Jeannette
      Duncan is good: "If you have anything of importance to tell me, please, please
      begin at the end!" So here is our conclusion:
      
      "Breast-cancer is a largely preventable disease, and we reach that good news because of
      our finding that a large share of recent and current breast-cancer in the United
      States is certainly due to past medical irradiation of the breasts with x-rays --- at all ages,
      including infancy and childhood. Much of today's radiation dosage is preventable,
      without any interference with necessary diagnostic radiology, and hence many future
      breast-cancers need not occur. ..."
      http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PBC/chp1F.html

    • Breast Cancer-Free Zones: Why Not? An Effective Way to Begin
      http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PBC/BCfreeZones.html

    • Mammography: An Individual's Estimated Risk that the Examination
      Itself Will Cause Radiation-Induced Breast Cancer
      http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PBC/mammography.html

  • Rachel's #723 - What Causes Breast Cancer? - April 26, 2001
    http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?issue_ID=1993

  • Research Is Urged for Healthier Breast Milk
    DDT, DDE, PCBs, dioxin, and other hormone disruptors cited [ . . . and, PBDEs]
    By Laurie Tarkan / New York Times 16oct01
    http://www.mindfully.org/Health/Breast-Milk-Research-Urged.htm

  • Dr. Janette Sherman
    Physician • Author • Activist • Mom
    http://www.janettesherman.org/

  • Surgical Treatment of Breast Disease: What's New? Diagnosing Breast Cancer: The ABBI Breast Biopsy System
    I know nothing about this procedure, but bring this link only as something else to ponder. -- barb.
    http://www.breastdoctor.com/breast/surgery/ABBI.htm

  • Though often overlooked, breast cancer afflicts men too
    By ROD HARMON - Knight Ridder Newspapers
    Date: 10/06/00 22:15; The Star, http://www.kcstar.com/
    http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/fyi.pat,fyi/3774d0ef.a06,.html

  • Survivors of Salines (SOS) (a site for women who have saline-filled silicone
    breast implants, or who are considering getting them)
    http://www.homestead.com/sosalines/sos.html

    The Breast Cancer Fund (TBCF)
    http://www.breastcancerfund.org/

    A few of the many pages and links of information . . .
    
    • About the Disease - Facts, News and Opinions
      http://www.breastcancerfund.org/disease.htm

    • State of the Evidence: What is the Connection between Chemicals & Breast Cancer?
      edited by Nancy Evans
      © 2003 by The Breast Cancer Fund and Breast Cancer Action
      http://www.breastcancerfund.org/environment_evid_probable.htm

    • TBCF Organizes Hearing on Breast Cancer and the Environment
      http://www.breastcancerfund.org/environment_hearing.htm

  • State of the Evidence: What is the Connection between
    Chemicals & Breast Cancer?
    edited by Nancy Evans
    © 2003 by The Breast Cancer Fund and Breast Cancer Action
    http://www.breastcancerfund.org/environment_evidence_main.htm#contents

  • Think Before You Pink
    "The Cosmetics Industry and Breast Cancer - Phlanthropy or Hypocrisy?"
    http://www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org
    Just a few of the links available from this site. -- barb
    
    • Avoiding parabens and phthalates...
      http://www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org/Pages/Resources.html

    • Cosmetic Companies and Breast Cancer
      http://www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org/Pages/CosmeticCompanies.html

    • Chemical Industry's Whitewash
      "[A] letter from the American Chemical Council, a front group for the chemical industry."
      http://www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org/Pages/ACCtoBCA.html

    • Press Room
      http://www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org/Pages/PressRoom.html

    • Take Action
      http://www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org/Pages/TakeAction.html

    
    
  • UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center
    http://breastcarecenter.his.ucsf.edu/geninfo.html
    • Multidisciplinary Team
      http://breastcarecenter.his.ucsf.edu/healthcareteam.html

  • Understanding Breast Cancer
    http://www.understandingbreastcancer.com/

  • What You Need To Know AboutÅ Cancer
    http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/wyntk_pubs/breast.htm

  • Women's Cancer Resource Center
    http://www.wcrc.org/
    • Breast Calcifications: Beware If a Six-Month Mammogram Follow-up is
      Recommended, Microcalcification Awareness/Action Committee
      "Note: This is a new version of a 1993 article with the same title, updated to
      include information about stereotactic core biopsy.
      http://www.wcrc.org/bcal.htm

    
    
  • "X-rays may kill, Berkeley professor says [mammograms are X-rays! -- barb]
    He cites own nationwide radiation study"
    November 22, 1999; By William Brand; STAFF WRITER
    had been available via a search of the Oakland Tribune site
    I have not had a mammorgram, nor will I as long as I have anything to say about it! -- barb
    http://www.newschoice.com/newspapers/alameda/tribune/default.asp

  
  
  -- end breast cancer category on EHN's General Links, page B; also see Cancer, page C --

Breast Milk /Breastfeeding

• ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
  Persistent Chemicals found in Breast Milk
  http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/interactionprofiles/ip03.html

• Chemical Contaminants in Breast Milk Mini-Monograph
  edited by PJ Landrigan
  Environmental Health Perspectives
  http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2002/110pA313-A315landrigan/abstract.html

• NRDC - Natural Resources Defense Council
  http://www.nrdc.org/
  • Healthy Milk, Healthy Baby - Chemical Pollution and Mother's Milk
    "Say YES to breastfeeding, adn NO to toxic chemicals in the environment."
    A several page report. Do read this! But, one thing I find lacking is information on fragrance
    chemicals and their contaminating properties. -- barb
    http://www.nrdc.org/breastmilk/default.asp
    A few of this report's topics . . .
    
    • The Problems with Infant Formula
      http://www.nrdc.org/breastmilk/formula.asp

    • What Governments Should Do to Protect Breast Milk
      http://www.nrdc.org/breastmilk/govt.asp

    • The Chemicals, One by One
      http://www.nrdc.org/breastmilk/chems.asp

  • Toxic Chemicals and Health
    http://www.nrdc.org/health/default.asp
• New Toxic Chemicals Found in Breast Milk
  Dr. Mercola's Optimal Wellness Center
  "... The newly-discovered contaminants are brominated flame retardants. Bromine is a
  highly-reactive chemical element, a halogen in the same class as chlorine and iodine. ..."
  http://www.mercola.com/2001/dec/12/breast_milk.htm

• WHY YOU SHOULD BREASTFEED!
  http://www.erols.com/cindyrn/<
  
  
• Synthetic musk linked to environmental risks
  March 24, 1999; BY MICHAEL WOODS; BLADE SCIENCE EDITOR
  http://www.toledoblade.com/editorial/health/9c24musk.htm
  
  
  Synthetic musks include fragrances like Eternity -- See EHN Petitions the FDA
  FDApetition/bkgrinfo.htm

Breath of Fresh Air Day (use sense not scents!)
aka MCS Awareness Day


• Awareness2000
  
  • Awareness 2000 has been established to create awareness of
    Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and other
    Illnesses that have been neglected far too long.
    
    • Melva Smith's site
      http://www-members.adept.net/~mcsinfo/aware/
      
      
    • Earle Phillip's site
      http://ncchem.com/aware/
    • 1998 Letter to President Clinton asking for
      A National MCS Awareness Week
      http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4277/mcs-week.html
      
      
    • A Bird in the Hand for MCS Awareness
      http://home.earthlink.net/~dovetail1/
      
      
    • Awareness2000 from NCChem
      http://ncchem.com/aware/
      
      
    • Breath of Fresh Air Day! (use sense not scents)
      http://ncchem.com/aware/bfad3.htm
      
      
    • Proclamations recognizing MCS
      
      • EHN
        ehnhompg/takheart.htm#Proclamations
        
        
      • H&ERC
        http://www.herc.org/together/proclamations.htm
        
        
        

  
  
  

• Diagnosing Asthma: "Hypersensitive Airways" http://www.mtsinai.org/pulmonary/books/breathe/Sectb.htm

• Other Occupational Lung Diseases
  WHAT lS OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE?
  http://www.mtsinai.org/pulmonary/books/breathe/Sectq.htm

• filter fragrances et.al.
  http://www.icanbreathe.com/favorite.htm
  
  

from MCS Barbie

Comes resplendent dressed in a canary yellow outfit, with her very own,
well-outgassed, double-cartridge, Willson Half Mask.

It looks similar to the one available through Lab Safety Supply
http://www.labsafety.com/). Barbie's cartridges are a fetching chartreuse and mauve
(product number 31311) on navy (silicon), for afterall, she is Barbie.

Breathing exercies

• Danjeun Ki Bub (phonetically dan-june key bub)
  
  Static Breathing Positions
  This page will take time to load due to the number of images
  http://www.jps.net/thmprwrx/statpos.htm
  • Active Breathing Positions This page will take time to load due to the number of images
    http://www.jps.net/thmprwrx/actpos.htm

• Breathwork with The Breathing Coach
  Relax & Breathe - The Hidden Healing Power of the Breath
  Steve Ross, MA, MFT, Breathing Coach
  Steve Ross, MA, offers Relax & BreatheÆ oxygenation sessions at his E.I. Safe(r) office on
  Craycroft near Grant in Tucson. For information, visit
  http://www.home.earthlink.net/~sross1
  http://www.relaxandbreathe.net
  or call (520) 320-7953.

  Folks, Steve helped me considerably. With stage 4 /5 kidney disease, one tends to automatically
  have high blood pressure. IF the kidneys are functioning normally, then send out the message
  -- a hormone, erythropoietin -- to the heart to control blood pressure. As I'm already chemically
  injured, my body suffers adverse events when given drugs, so what to do to control the higher
  blood pressure? It's not so bad, until I'm around petrochemically derived fragrances, and then
  those neurotoxins have an adverse effect upon my autonomic nervous system and the blood
  pressure dramatically spikes--other folks have a precipitous drop; neither is good. Well, one
  thing was to learn how to consciously breathe slowly and deeply, and that's where Steve came to
  my rescue with a couple of sessions. Secondly, I take Vasotensin Fish Peptides, which are a
  natural ace inhibitor -- and no side effects. I also use garlic and a lot of onions. -- barb
  
  
  Therapeutic Breathing ‚ Centered Breathing
  The Studio Ray Home Page
  http://www.studioray.gr.jp/english/home2.html

  -- end breathing section --
  

  Dr. Lew Brenneman
  Dr. Brenneman has retired, but his articles are here for you. -- barb
  

• Index of Papers by Dr. Brenneman
  Posted by kind permission of Dr. Brennemn. His articles had appeared in EHN's newsletter,
  The New Reactor (in hiatus) -- barb
  immune/paperind.htm
  
  Betty Bridges, RN
  
  
  • Betty journeys to Halifax
    ehnlinx/aaprbb.htm#Betty

  • Chemical Awareness
    More Than Skin Deep
    By Betty Bridges, RN Fragranced Products Information Network
    http://www.fbr.dk/chemaware/newslet/issue12/article15.html
    
    
  • Chemical Hazard Data Availability Study
    http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/HPVC_EURO.htm

  • Chemicals in perfumes -- 1,560 of the more than 5,000 chemicals used
    http://pw1.netcom.com/~bcb56/1500.htm

  • ConsumerAffairs.Com
    
    • Perfume Hazards Ignored
      By Betty Bridges, RN
      Fragranced Products Information Network (FPIN)
      http://www.consumeraffairs.com/health/perfume.htm
      
      
  • Continuing Education Courses
    Fragrance Sensitivity: Impact on Health and Health Care
    (In "Course Number" field, type in 138 and click on "Find.")
    http://epsilon.wlci.com/scripts/t3cgi.exe/spjc/display.taf?noshow=1
    
    
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
    
    • Scents and Sensitivity: Volume 106, December 12, November 1998
      http://members.aol.com/enviroknow/perfume/EHPscents.htm
      
      
    • Fragrances and Health: Volume 107, Number 7, July 1999
      http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1999/107-7/correspondence.html
      
      
  • FlipSide Alternative Daily --
    
    • HALIFAX LEADS THE WAY WITH FRAGRANCE FREE POLICIES (1)
      http://www.flipside.org/vol2/sep99/99se22a.htm
      
      
    • SELF REGULATION OF THE FRAGRANCE INDUSTRY IS INADEQUATE AT BEST (2)
      http://www.flipside.org/vol2/oct99/99oc02a.htm
      
      
    • SYNTHETIC COMPOUNDS NOW MAKE UP MORE THAN 80-90% OF THE MATERIALS USED IN FRAGRANCES (3) http://www.flipside.org/vol2/oct99/99oc13a.htm
      
      
    • SAFETY CONCERNS AND TESTING FRAGRANCE MATERIALS (4)
      http://flipside.org/vol2/oct99/99oc22a.htm
    
    
  • Fragranced Products Information Network
    Betty has a new domain name: fpinva.org -- barb
    http://www.fpinva.org
    Old -- still current -- FPIN web address
    http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/fpin.htm

    
    
    
    • The Cigarette Connection
      Fragrance Chemicals in Tobacco Products http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/tobchem.htm
      
      
    • The Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association (CTFA)
      by Betty Bridges, RN
      http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/CTFA.htm
      
      
    • Essential Oils
      ESSENTIAL OILS AND OTHER AROMATIC EXTRACTS FROM PLANTS
      http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/essential_oils.htm
      
      
    • Fragrance Facts
      "There are over 5000 chemicals used in the fragrance industry.
      Over 80-90% of all fragrance chemicals are synthesized, most from petroleum products. Even 'unscented' and 'fragrance free' products may contain fragrance chemicals."
      
      
      • More Fragrance Facts
        http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/Facts.htm
        
        
    • Fragrance Research
      http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/research.htm
      
      
    • Halifax meets Betty Bridges, RN
      ehnlinx/aaprbb.htm
      
      
      • Industry Motivation: Personal Rights or Profits
        ehnlinx/aaprbb.htm#Industry
        
        
      • The "REAL" facts the industry does not want you to know
        ehnlinx/aaprbb.htm#facts
        
        
      • SUMMARY OF SCIENTIFICALLY-BASED CONCERNS ON FRAGRANCE SAFETY
        ehnlinx/aaprbb.htm#SUMMARY
        
        
    • International Fragrance Association (IFRA)
      by Betty Bridges, RN
      http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/IFRA.htm
      
      
    • Invironment
      Fragrances and Asthma
      by Betty Bridges
      http://www.invironment.com/inv_spot.htm
      Readers Feedback -- letter by Betty Bridges
      http://www.invironment.com/inv_feedback.htm

    • Migraines, Headaches, & Other Neurological Effects of Fragrance
      By Betty Bridges, RN
      http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/migraines.htm
      
      
    • [OEM] Perfume Causes Occupational Asthma
      Betty's comments regarding:
      
      Allergy 1999 Dec;54(12):1334-5
      Occupational asthma to perfume.
      Baur X, Schneider EM, Wieners D, Czuppon AB
      
      http://www.escribe.com/medicine/occenvmed/m3576.html

    • Properties of Raw Fragrance Materials
      "These are the characteristics of materials used in the formulation of fragranced products
      and flavors and not necessarily that of finished products. "
      http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/FragMatTox.htm

    • Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM)
      by Betty Bridges, RN
      http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/RIFM.htm
      
      
    • Safety of Fragrances: A Case for Concern
      by Betty Bridges, RN
      http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/Commentary2.html
      
      

    For more information from Betty Bridges, RN, please visit her renowned site,
    Fragranced Products Information Network at http://www.fpinva.org.
    

  
  EHN thanksBrigham and Women's Hospital for granting permission to post their Frangrance-Controlled Workplace policy.

  Brigham and Women's Hospital's Fragrance Controlled Workplace
  ehnhompg/bwhosp.htm

  From the point of view of the already fragrance-sensitized individual, I must say that
  "fragrance controlled" does not do it for several reasons, but admittedly it is a major step
  forward in this day and age of industry power plays and no government regulation -- not even
  the FDA's required warning message on labels of fragrances released to market without substantiation of safety! The problems are multiple; a few are:

  • The scent users cannot smell the extent of their own fragrances and therefore
    tend to use more throughout the day . . . also, in doing that, they are doing what the
    industry recommends.

  • Modern petrochemical-derived fragrances are concocted to waft further and last
    longer on items scented, as well as in the ambient air.
    
    
  • A fragrance-controlled atmosphere doesn't account for the fact that IF
    multiple users -- plus products used in the facility -- volatilize petrochemical-derived
    fragrance, there is an accumulative affect. That defies a "fragrance-controlled" policy's
    intent for providing a healthier environment for everyone, including all workers, patients
    and visitors -- as well as aquatic and wildlife downstream.

  • Fragrance-controlled policies mock the wisdom of the doctors who "get it" for they are the ones who tell their patients: Avoid fragrances. One can buy and use one's own products that are free of petrochemical-derived fragrances, but we all are subjected to the chemicals used by others. We are secondhand users. We are ignored. Just check the increased rates of "unexplained" asthma for a starter. If we were listened to, I'd hazzard a guess that doctors would start telling their patients to not only avoid fragrances, but strive to get their workplace, school, healthcare facility, etc. to look for safer alternatives. And the doctors would carry that message forward too.

  • Fragrance-controlled policies may miss an opportunity to educate doctors, nurses, all
    other staff, patients and visitors about the possible long-term and systemic effects of
    perfume pollution. Healthcare facilities never miss an opportunity to educate about the
    harmful effects of tobacco smoke, well fragrances leave the user to adversely affect the health
    of others too, just as does tobacco smoke. But when you get tobacco smoke, you are also getting
    other flavors and fragrance industry products: FLAVORS. Again, petrochemically derived
    products.

    Remember according to the US Department of the Interior, if it is
    GREEN, it "must not contain petrochemical-derived fragrances." See DOI's
    "Traditional Versus 'Green' Cleaning Products"
    http://www.doi.gov/greening/sustain/trad.html

  But as I said, it is a start. And for that I congratulate the people at Brigham and Women's Hospital for instituting this policy. And, I thank them for sharing this policy with EHN. -- barb
  

  British Society for Allergy, Environmental and Nutritional Medicine - BSAEN
  http://www.bsaenm.org.uk/

  • Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Recognition And Management
    - a document on the health effects of everyday chemical exposures and their implications
    moderated by KK Eaton and HM Anthony
    http://www.bsaenm.org.uk/mcsrm.html

  • Reports
    http://www.bsaenm.org.uk/publish.html

  • BSAEN from another site ...
    http://www.minotaur.org.uk/webdesign/sites/bsaenm_index.html
    
    
    • Effective Allergy Practice
      by Dr Honor Anthony and others; booklet: An outline of the best clinical practice in the management
      of allergies and intolerances; 18 pages, 200 references.
      £5.00 inc pp from BSAENM, PO Box 7, Knighton, LD7 1WT, U.K.
      Tel: 01547 550380 (+44 1547 550380)
      "Syndromes which may be induced or exacerbated by reactions to food or environmental factors
      

      Irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's disease
      Migraine
      Arthritis
      Cerebral symptoms
      Unexplained fatigue
      Abacterial cystitis and bladder pain
      Multi-system polysymptomatic illness"
      http://www.minotaur.org.uk/webdesign/sites/bsaenm_index.html
      

    
    
  Brobeck, Attorneys at Law
  • Employee with a Heightened Sensitivity to Strong Fragrances May Be Disabled Under the ADA
    http://www.brobeck.com/news_events/issues_archive.asp?newsItem=IA2#3

  Brochures
  02/02: EHN is in the process of developing a brochure based upon the FDA Petition, 99P - 1340
  FDApetition/bkgrinfo.htm

  Also see EHN's General Links, page p /Posters
  ehnlinx/p.htm#Posters

  • Allergy, Sensitivity & Environmental Health Association
    About Fragrances: Did you know ää. Fragrances can make you ill
    Leaflet written by Dorothy M. Bowes for ASEHA Qld Inc 2004
    http://www.asehaqld.org.au/Leaflets/about_fragrances.htm

  • Environmental Health Coalition of Western Massachusetts (EHCWM)
    P.O. Box 187
    Northhamptom, MA 01061-0187
    
    Join EHCWM ... they've many activities. You will be helped and untold millions will also benefit. -- barb
    
    Creating A Healthy Home
    Healthy home brochure by The Environmental Health Coalition of Western Mass.
    
    The Hidden Dangers of FRAGRANCES
    
    by The Environmental Health Coalition of Western Mass.
    Send SASE for free sample brochures.
        Environmental Health Coalition of Western Massachusetts
        P.O. Box 187
        Northhamptom, MA 01061-0187
    
    
    
    MCS America's Want to put your family in jail? poster
    The answer to that question is: "Use fragranced products." -- barb
    http://mcs-america.org/jail.pdf

  • Perfumes and Asthma Don't Mix
    Trifold brochure developed by barb, based on collaborative effort
    led by Julius Anderson, MD,PhD
    This version has been approved by Dr. Anderson. -- barb
    ehnlinx/donmix.htm
    • Anderson's Perfumes and Asthma -- don't mix
      Half-fold version.
      http://www.andersonlaboratories.com/alweb30.htm

  Bronchitis
  

  • Chronic Bronchitis - ALA
    They ignore the role played by synthetic fragrances! -- barb
    http://www.lungusa.org/diseases/lungchronic.html

  David R. Brower
  http://www.earthisland.org/brower/index.cfm
  • The First Annual Brower Day - June 30, 2001
    EHN will have a table, come visit us.
    http://www.earthisland.org/new_gen.cfm?generalID=80

  Bubblegum-scented products
  How many of you have been made ill by bubblegum scentd bathroom deodorizers? I have.
  But I had no idea that they used this scent in so many ways ... including spraying it into a mask
  to put on children's faces before surgery! -- barb
  
  • Acid Cleaners
    http://www.technichemcorp.com/catalog/acid%20cleaners.htm
    
  • Bathroom supplies, bubblegum scented
    http://www.keysan.com/ksuwa25a.htm

  • Birthday Candles
    http://www.candlebrat.com/birthday.htm

  • Bought by the drum! - Air-Scent International Industrieller
    " SUPRA-STRENGTHC" " NOCH " FLÐSSIGKEIT, TROMMELN
    Mittlere Ausgabe - 55 Gallone Trommel, Schiff Gewicht 400 Pfund.
    http://www.deodorizer.com/languages/1x030006.htm

  • BUBBLE GUM-9412
    MSDS from TGSC
    http://www.execpc.com/~goodscnt/msds/md100157.html

  • Car Brite
    "A silicone-free, highly durable, solvent-based, high gloss, ready-to-use dressing which is
    transparent and features a bubblegum scent."
    http://www.carbrite.com/c007.htm

  • CupCake Kids Soap - 3 oz hand made soap cake, with bubblegum scent and
    an embedded toy!
    http://www.sanbornshops.com/store.asp?WCI=wciMainHome&WCE=14

  • DigiScents Gives Kids a Whiff on National Sense of Smell Day - April 2000
    http://www.digiscents.com/inside/news/releases/press_04252000.shtml

  • Maskumm^TM Anesthesia Mask Spray
    " Economically Scents Masks for Easier Pediatric Induction!
    Available in popular Cherry or Bubble Gum scents ..."
    http://www.rtechmedical.com/cgi-bin/webc.exe/st_main.html?catid=270&sid=3gj16O0G62SiCMp

  • Pesticides
    
    • Bubblegum, cherry smells mask pesticides
      Andrew Duffy Vancouver Sun
      http://www.vancouversun.com/newsite/news/000821/4620459.html

    • CorpWatch
      Canada: Sweet-Scented Pesticide 'Sugarcoats a Toxic Pill'
      http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/headlines/2000/294.html

    • Sweet-Scented Pesticide Sugarcoats A Toxic Pill:
      Critics Decry Industry's Perverse Threat To Children
      "Pesticides give off a pretty recognizable smell, and people naturally act adversely to it.
      This is an attempt to cover up what amounts to a warning signal."
      http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/00-09-05c.htm

  • Urinal Screen - Bubblegum Scent
    http://www.fishmansupply.com/catalog/sx060072.htm

  • RenewCrete® - THE ORIGINAL BUBBLE GUM RELEASE FORMULA
    "Renew-Crete® Liquid Release is a parting agent used to keep texturing mats from
    sticking to the still plastic concrete. It also prolongs the life of the texturing mats by
    decreasing the friction between the texturing mat and the concrete. It forms a
    lubricating and parting barrier separating the texturing the concrete from the texturing mats."
    http://www.plasticforms.com/liquid_release.htm

  Building(s) -- Suggestions and guidelines; EHN makes no recommendations, nor are any implied.
  
  Also see EHN's General Links ...
  
  page C, Carpets
  ehnlinx/c.htm#Carpets

  page C, Clean
  ehnlinx/c.htm#Clean

  Page E, Ecology House
  ehnlinx/e.htm#House Page E, EMF/EMR
  ehnlinx/e.htm#EMF

  page G, Green
  ehnlinx/g.htm#Green
  
  page M, Mold
  ehnlinx/m.htm#Mold

  page P, Paint
  ehnlinx/p.htm#Paint

  page P, Pesticide Info and Least Toxic Methods
  ehnlinx/pestcide.htm

  page S, Sustainability
  ehnlinx/s.htm#Sustainability
  
  Also, learn about Sick Building Syndrome
  ehnlinx/s.htm#Sick

  • A HOME BUYER'S GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
    The Consumer Law Page: Brochures
    http://consumerlawpage.com/brochure/home-haz.shtml

  • Advanced Foil Systems, Inc.
    As with any product, listen to YOUR body! -- barb
    Aluma-Foil
    http://www.afs-foil.com
    • Chemically Sensitive (MCS)
      http://www.afs-foil.com/pages/Chemsens.htm

    • Commercial Industrial Applications
      http://www.afs-foil.com/pages/commind.htm

    • FAQs
      http://www.afs-foil.com/pages/faq.htm

    
    
  • Air Krete
    "air kreteÆ is a thermally efficient and environmentally responsible, non-toxic insulation,
    which is easily foamed into open or closed cavities in walls, roofs and ceilings."
    As with any product, listen to YOUR body! -- barb
    http://www.airkrete.com/
    • Air Krete: Foam Without Plastics
      From Volume 6, No. 7 -- July/August 1997
      "... In that time, it has collected a small but very enthusiastic group of advocates,
      especially among the chemically sensitive. There are also skeptics, however, who are
      concerned about its long-term durability or just question whether it is worth the higher
      cost. Recent evidence about the product's firestopping capabilities may provide the
      big break air krete advocates have been waiting for. ... "
      http://www.buildinggreen.com/products/air_krete.cfm

    
    
  • Alameda County [Calif.] Building Materials Resource Guide
    Home Remodeling Green Building Guidelines - available as a PDF file
    http://stopwaste.org/gbguide

  • Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR)
    ADPSR West Coast
    http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/index.html
    • About ADPSR
      http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/menu/About/about.html

    • Architectural Resource Guide and Database
      http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/menu/ResourceGuide/resourceguide.html

    • Links - Green & Healthy Building - ADPSR - Norcal
      http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/adpsr/menu/ResourceGuide/linksGreenBldg.html

    • Green Resource Center - through ADPSR's site
      "The new Green Resource Center opened in Berkeley on Earth Day
      1999. A long held dream of Nor Cal ADPSR. We have been fortunate
      to receive support from UC Berkeley, the City of Berkeley, and
      businesses of an amazing variety. There is a 1200 SF storefront in the
      heart of downtown Berkeley. It was furnished with donations from the
      City of Berkeley. ..."
      http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/adpsr/menu/About/grc.html

    • News
      http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/menu/News/news.html

    • Green & Healthy Building - a resource listing
      http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/adpsr/menu/ResourceGuide/linksGreenBldg.htm
      
      
    • David Kibbey
      Our sad news is that we lost David August 9, 2001.
      Contact ADPSR if you'd like to make a donation to his
      scholarship fund, it is being administered by Architects/ Designers/ Planners
      for Social Responsibility. Tax-deductible checks should be sent to:
      
      NorCal ADPSR/ David Kibbey Fund
      PO Box 9126
      Berkeley, CA 94709-0126
      
      
      http://www.iaqkibbey.homestead.com/schedule.html
      • David Kibbey with ADPSR
        We lost David August 9, 2001. -- barb
        http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/adpsr/menu/Members/MemberDirectory/AlphabetList/K%20-%20Members.html

      • David A. Kibbey - Environmental Building Consultant
        ADPSR, Environmental Building Consortium
        http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/adpsr/menu/Members/MemberDirectory/PersonalPages/Kibbey.html

      • In Memory of David Kibbey
        Alliance for Lung Cancer
        http://www.alcase.org/support/hope/in_memory/david.html

        Also see, David Kibbey, EHN's General Links, page K. -- barb
        http://www.ehnca.org/ehnlinx/k.htm#Kibbey

    • Greg VanMechelen, Architect
      gvanmech@aol.com
      http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/menu/Members/MemberDirectory/AreasOfInterest.htm

  • Barb's Story
    by Barbara Harris; UPdate Fall 2001
    " Barb Harris is severely chemically sensitive and approaches home renovations with extreme caution. ..." http://www.environmentalhealth.ca/fall01barb.html

  • Bau-biologie^TMUSA!
    International Institute for Bau-biologie & Ecology (IBE)
    http://www.bau-biologieusa.com/
    • Bau-biologie "The German term "Bau-biologie" means "building biology" or "the relationship between buildings and life" and could be defined as:
      • The impact of the building environment on human health, and the application of this knowledge to the construction, or modification, of homes and workplaces, and

      • The holistic interaction between human life and other life-forms with our environment."
        http://www.bau-biologieusa.com/def.html

    • Baubiologie Environmental Inspectors
      http://www.bau-biologieusa.com/bbinsp.html

    • Baubiologie USA Store
      Take your time scrolling and learning through this page . . . -- barb
      http://www.bau-biologieusa.com/store.html

    
    
  • Berkeley's Best Builders
    Providing free design assistance for designing and building GREEN in Berkeley.
    http://www.greenresourcecenter.org/BBB.php

  • Berkeley's Green Building Initiative
    http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/sustainabledevelopment/greenbuilding/

  • Boston Society of Architects
    Tackles IAP (indoor air pollution)
    http://www.architects.org/

  • John Bower
    • In Context; Context Institute's award-winning journal
      Clearing The Air -Seven do's and seven don't for improving indoor air quality
      by John Bower
      http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC35/Bower.htm

    • The Healthy House Institute
      http://www.hhinst.com/index.html
      
      • The Healthy House : How to buy one, How to build one, How to cure a sick one
        by John Bower (copyright 2001)
        http://www.hhinst.com/THHcontribs.html

      • Welcome to The Healthy House Institute Archives
        " This is where you can find selected healthy-house articles that have been published
        in a variety of places. Please keep in mind three things. First, the articles located here
        are the original versions, some of the published versions were revised by editors
        before they were printed. Second, these articles are copyrighted, so they cannot be
        reproduced without permission. Third, although most of the information in these
        articles is still relevant, some portions may be outdated.
        http://www.hhinst.com/archives.html

  • BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) ...
    "...is the most widely used international method of assessing building quality and performance in
    terms of energy efficiency, environmental impact, health and operation and management.
    http://www.breeamcanada.ca/

  • Builders BOOKSOURCE
    http://www.buildersbooksite.com/

  • Building For Health Materials Center
    "YOUR ONE STOP SHOPPING for healthy and environmentally sound building
    materials & home comforts

    "Welcome to Building For Health Materials Center, a national and international
    provider of healthy and environmentally friendly alternatives to standard
    construction materials. There are worldwide environmental and health concerns
    related to the use of standard building materials. We provide a selection of hundreds
    of products to improve indoor air quality, and reduced environmental impacts.
    Building For Health thoroughly reviews each product for quality and evaluates
    health and environmental impact. You can now order many of our products on-line
    or you can call, our well-trained staff is prepared to answer your questions, address
    your individual concerns, and assist you in selecting the best products for your project."
    http://www.buildingforhealth.com/

  • Building Concerns - Resource Directories
    http://www.BuildingConcerns.com/
    • About Building Concerns
      Benefits of Sustainably Designed Buildings
      "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
      -- Henry David Thoreau, Philosopher, 1854
      http://www.BuildingConcerns.com/why.htm

    • Florida/Georgia
      http://www.BuildingConcerns.com/flga/index.htm

    • Northern California
      

    • Southern California
      

    • Yellowstone Region
      

  • BuildingGreen.com
    http://www.buildinggreen.com/biblio/indoor.html
    • BuildingGreen.com
      http://www.buildinggreen.com/
      • Disposal: The Achilles' Heel of CCA-Treated Wood
        From EBN Volume 6, No. 3 -- March 1997
            Background on Treated Wood
           Toxicity of Treated-Wood Waste
           Disposal Options for Treated Wood
           Other Solutions in the Works?
           Is the End of CCA in Sight?
           Recommendations for Disposal of Treated Wood
      http://www.buildinggreen.com/features/tw/treated_wood.html

    • Air Krete: Foam Without Plastics
      From Volume 6, No. 7 -- July/August 1997
      "... In that time, it has collected a small but very enthusiastic group of advocates,
      especially among the chemically sensitive. There are also skeptics, however, who are
      concerned about its long-term durability or just question whether it is worth the higher
      cost. Recent evidence about the product's firestopping capabilities may provide the
      big break air krete advocates have been waiting for. ... "
      http://www.buildinggreen.com/products/air_krete.cfm

    • Environmental Building News
      http://www.buildinggreen.com/menus/news.html

    • GreenSpec online directory (by subscription only)
      It contains detailed listings for over 1,500 green building products with environmental
      data, manufacturer information, and links to additional resources.
      http://www.buildinggreen.com/menus/products.html

    • Miraflex Now Available for Walls
      From EBN Volume 8, No. 1 -- January 1999
      http://www.buildinggreen.com/products/miraflex.cfmz

  • Buildingteam
    "It's free, easy to access, and will save you time in your daily
    activities. Make Buildingteam.com your resource for product data,
    local code information, project cost data, project leads, daily news,
    and more. Our database-driven site features key content from Building
    Design & Construction and Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazines,
    Architects' First Source, R.S. Means, Construction Market Data, and DPIC."
    http://www.buildingteam.com/
    
    
  • Canada Mortgage & Housing Corp. (CMHC)
    http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/cmhc.html/
    • Canada Mortgage and Housing 'Building Materials for the Chemically Sensitive"
      http://www.greendesign.net/bcnews/julaug96/canada.htm

    • Building Materials for the Environmentally Hypersensitive - sourcebook
      http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/cgi-bin/webc.exe/boutique/en/st_prod.html?p_prodid=3&sid=5sp8le0gq7ai8vq

    • The Five Essentials of Healthy Housing
      http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/burema/hoin/heho/fiesheho_001.cfm

    • Housing and the Environmentally Hypersensitive
      http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/burema/hoin/heho/hoenhy_002.cfm

  • The Clean Air Guide: How to Identify and Correct Indoor Air Problems in your Home - book
    Call 800/668-2642.
  • C O A L I T I O N FOR LOW INCOME COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    " 'CDBG is sort of like a little kiss on the forehead. It's the local government's way of
    sayning 'You know your business.' Even if you can't get all the money you need from
    CDBG it's important to get some.' -- Susan Molloy, Environmental Health Network "
    http://www.clicd.org/org/chapter4.htm

  • Commercial High Performance Buildings project
    US Dept of Energy - A table of information. -- barb
    http://www.eren.doe.gov/buildings/highperformance/chp/building_inventory.html
    • U.S. Green Building Challenge team
      http://www.eren.doe.gov/buildings/gbc2000/

    • GBC 2000 US TEAM LISTING
      http://www.eren.doe.gov/buildings/gbc2000/gbcteam.html

  • Creating a Healthy Home
    Healthy home brochure by Environmental Health Coalition of Western Mass.
    10 = $2.25
    25 = $5.50
    50 = $8.50
    100 = 13.50
    
    These prices ONLY cover cost of printing, and shipping. Naturally the references for consulting
    and testing are for the east coast, but this brochure is most informative regardless of where you live. -- barb
    Checks payable to EHCWM/ISIS
    Mail to:
    Environmental Health Coalition of Western Massachusetts
    P.O. Box 614
    Leverett, MA 01054
    

  • Earth Tech
    http://www.earthtechinc.com/
    • Why non-toxic?
      http://www.earthtechinc.com/whynontox.html

  • Ecology House, San Rafael, California
    Design Criteria, Materials to avoid, etc. Read, learn and use to help build safer buildings. -- barb
    http://www.ecologyhouse.org
    On EHN's site:
    
    • Evaluation and List of Building Materials
      ecologyh/bldg.htm
      
      
    • Design Criteria
      ecologyh/propmgmt.htm#DESIGN

    • Ecology House - Materials to Avoid and List of Special Design Features and
      Materials to Accommodate Persons with MCS
      ecologyh/propmgmt.htm#Materials
      
      
    • Fragrance-free defined
      ecologyh/ecohsrul.htm
      
      
    • LIST OF DESIGN FEATURES AND MATERIALS WITH RESULTS
      ecologyh/propmgmt.htm#LIST

    • MCS Defined
      ecologyh/ecohmcs.htm
      
      
    • Q & A
      By Connie Barker
      ecologyh/ecohsqa.htm

    
    
  • EnergyServices
    Energy Solutions Resources -- Topic: "Building Envelope - Insulation"
    http://www.es.wapa.gov/energy_solutions/res_details.cfm?resourceID=2829&category=Building%20Envelope&subcategory=Insulation

  • Environmental Building Materials
    The Environmental Web Directory
    http://www.webdirectory.com/Design/Environmental_Building_Materials/

  • Environmental Building News
    http://www.buildinggreen.com/

  • ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
    Rochester Schools
    http://www.rochester.k12.mi.us/admin/regs.html

  • Enviornmental Home Center
    Source for green building materials
    http://www.environmentalhomecenter.com/

  • Establishing a Healthy Home
    by Bruce M. Small, P.Eng.
    http://www.lovepsychics.com/Global_Life_Symposium/bruce_small.htm#healthy

    Foil - chemical barriers

    • Advanced Foil Systems, Inc.
      As with any product, listen to YOUR body! -- barb
      Aluma-Foil
      http://www.afs-foil.com
      • Chemically Sensitive (MCS)
        http://www.afs-foil.com/pages/Chemsens.htm

      • Commercial Industrial Applications
        http://www.afs-foil.com/pages/commind.htm

      • FAQs
        http://www.afs-foil.com/pages/faq.htm

    • Dennyfoil
      As with any product, listen to YOUR body! -- barb
      
      • Denny Wholesale Services
        http://www.dennywholesale.com/dennyfoil.htm

      • E. L. Foust, Company, Inc
        Dennyfoil Vapor barrier
        http://www.foustco.com/homeenvironment2.asp

      • University of Florida
        Designing and Installing Radiant Barrier Systems
        http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_EH244

      
      
  • Green Building Activities at the Research Center
    http://www.nahbrc.org/builders/green/index.html

  • Green Resource Center
    http://www.greenresourcecenter.org/
    • Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) -Certified Wood
      http://www.greenresourcecenter.org/MaterialsSheets/FSCWood.html

    • Green Building Referrals - Architects
      http://www.greenresourcecenter.org/Referrals/Architects.html

    • Green Materials Sheets
      http://www.greenresourcecenter.org/GreenMaterials.html

    • Green Projects - Kitchens
      http://www.greenresourcecenter.org/ProjectSheets/Kitchen.html

    • New Construction or Additions
      http://www.greenresourcecenter.org/ProjectSheets/Additions.html
  • 2.3 HASS DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
    This section is concerned primarily with general design considerations, and the special design
    considerations for building a truly healthy home. In addition, this section also addresses
    approaches to site selection.
    2.3.1. Introduction to Building Technologies
    http://www.non-wave.com/nnn.htm

  • H3 Environmental
    http://www.h3environmental.com/
    • Articles
      http://www.h3environmental.com/pages/la_times_article.htm

    • Mary Cordaro
      http://www.h3environmental.com/pages/marys_cv.htm

    • PRODUCTS
      http://www.h3environmental.com/pages/products.htm
      
      
    • Resources
      http://www.h3environmental.com/pages/resource_list.htm

  • HEAL - Southern Arizona
    SAFER BUILDING MATERIALS FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T
    TOLERATE MANY COMMONLY-USED CHEMICALS
    By Miriam Finkel, Kata Orndorff, Ariel Barfield, and Faith Spaulding
    Ecologic News, Volume 17, No. 2, Spring 1999 -- in RTF
    http://www.cybercil.com/library/mcsBldgMats.rtf

  • HEALING ENVIRONMENTS: PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL, EMOTIONAL AND
    PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN ARCHITECTURE THAT PROMOTE HEALTH by Anou Mirkine
    BA, French Literature and Painting, Bennington College, 1979
    M.Arch., Architecture, University of New Mexico, 1996
    http://home.earthlink.net/~anouchka/Abstract.htm

    
    

  • Healthy by Design : Building and Remodeling Solutions for Creating Healthy Homes (book)
    Author(s): David Rousseau, James Wasley; ISBN: 0881791350
    http://www2.greenbuilder.com/gb/book.qry?function=detail&Layout_0_uid1=109&Layout1_uid1=109

  • Healthy Building Network
    http://www.healthybuilding.net
    
    • Arsenic
      http://www.healthybuilding.net/arsenic/aindex.html
      • CCA (Info Page of Links)
        http://www.healthybuilding.net/arsenic_wood.html

    • Health Care Design
      http://www.healthybuilding.net/healthcare/hindex.html

    • PVC
      Polyvinyl chloride (PVC or vinyl) is the worst plastic for the environment and human
      health throughout its lifecycle.
      http://www.healthybuilding.net/PVC/pindex.html

  • Healthy Cabinets
    CKD Pioneers Hypoallergenic Kitchen Design
    http://www.healthycabinets.com
    
    
  • Healthy Flooring Network
    http://www.healthyflooring.org/alternatives.html

  • Healthy Home related web sites
    CALIFORNIA INDOOR AIR QUALITY PROGRAM
    http://www.cal-iaq.org//iaqsheet.htm#Home

  • Healthy Homes - Vermont and Hawaii
    • Healing MCS
      "MCS is usually not caused by one single toxic or exposure. Therefore, we generally
      need to deal with several areas or a history of exposures when trying to heal our MCS,
      not just one. The first obstacle we face is being able to act intelligently and
      immediately to change our current situation and becoming more ill. This is frequently
      very difficult because initially we may not be sure of all the things that are causing us
      problems. . . ."
      http://www.healthy-homes.com/healing.htm

    • Materials ...
      http://www.healthy-homes.com/prefab.htm

    • The Most Dangerous Home Toxics
      http://www.healthy-homes.com/mostdang.htm

  • Healthy Homes from a CFS and MCS Perspective
    by an anonymous woman with CFS/CFIDS; February 1996
    http://www.immuneweb.org/articles/building.html

  • Healthy or Safe Housing
    All the resource information you could hope to find in one spot. -- barb
    http://www.sccs.com/sccshhos.htm

  • The Healthy House Institute
    http://www.hhinst.com/index.html
    
    • The Healthy House : How to buy one, How to build one, How to cure a sick one
      by John Bower (copyright 2001)
      http://www.hhinst.com/THHcontribs.html

    • Welcome to The Healthy House Institute Archives
      " This is where you can find selected healthy-house articles that have been published
      in a variety of places. Please keep in mind three things. First, the articles located here
      are the original versions, some of the published versions were revised by editors
      before they were printed. Second, these articles are copyrighted, so they cannot be
      reproduced without permission. Third, although most of the information in these
      articles is still relevant, some portions may be outdated.
      http://www.hhinst.com/archives.html

• Hesperia Museum and Nature Center
  "[T]he first of it's kind in the world, legally permitted to be built totally of earthen construction,
  as part of the Desert Village, Rodeo/Arena and other futuristic programs in Hesperia. "
  http://www.calearth.org/museum.htm
  
  Indoor Environment Notebook
  http://publish.bsu.edu/ien/Default.htm
  • Formaldehyde
    http://publish.bsu.edu/ien/archives/2002/050202.htm

  • Questions Archive
    http://publish.bsu.edu/ien/archives/archive_list.htm

• INTERIOR CONCERNS - VICTORIA SCHOMER, ASID
  Designing Healthy and Sustainable Interiors for Homes and Businesses
  "Design For Humanity" Award Winner from the American Society of Interior Designers
  ECOLOGICAL and HEALTHY INTERIOR DESIGN + GREEN BUILDING CONSULTING
  http://www.interiorconcerns.com/

• International Code Council (ICC)
  "Setting the standard in building safety^TM
  http://www.iccsafe.org/index.html
  • ANSI A117 - 1998 Table of Contents
    http://www.iccsafe.org/a117/a117toc.html

  • ANSI A117 COMMITTEE TO MEET TO DISCUSS PROPOSED FEDERAL RULE
    March 9-10, 2000 http://www.iccsafe.org/newsrel/nr020400.html

  • GOVERNOR PATAKI PROPOSES ENERGY CONSERVATION BUILDING CODE
    Historic Revision of Building Codes to Continue Energy Conservation in New York State
    http://www.iccsafe.org/nypr.html

• Johns Manville
  http://www.jm.com/
  • Formaldehyde-Free Insulation
    http://www.jm.com/Insulation/Marketing/FormaldFree/index.html
• LEED - Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design
  
  • US Green Building Council.
    http://www.usgbc.org/programs/index.htm
    • LEED for Commercial Interiors Rating System (LEED-CIÅ)
      http://www.usgbc.org/programs/leed.htm

    • LEED Rating System Version 2.1
      (For New Construction, Major Renovations and High-Rise Residential)
      http://www.usgbc.org/programs/leed.htm

  • Impressions of "LEED" - A Green Building Rating System
    http://www.state.fl.us/fdi/edesign/news/9809/leed.htm

• Less Toxic Living Guide
  SUSAN PITMAN'S PRINCIPLES OF LESS TOXIC LIVING:
  LEARNED THROUGH RECOVERY FROM CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY
  http://www.austin360.com/community/groups/vanguard/Less_Toxic_Living_Gu.html

  
  

• The NAHB Research Center is a wholly-owned, not-for-profit
  subsidiary of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
  http://www.nahbrc.org/
  • FACT SHEET: GREEN BUILDING - March 2000
    http://www.nahbrc.org/tertiaryR.asp?CategoryID=1670&DocumentID=1934

  • Low- or No-VOC Paints
    ToolBase Services -The Home Building Industry's Technical Information Resource c/o NAHB Research Center
    400 Prince George's Blvd
    Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
    301-249-4000 (tel)
    301-430-6180 (fax)
    800-898-2842 (Hotline)
    email: toolbase@nahbrc.org
    http://www.toolbase.org/tertiaryT.asp?TrackID=&CategoryID=1402&DocumentID=2174

  • Seniors' Housing Research - Products that maximize livability
    http://www.nahbrc.org/seniorsprodsearch.asp?&TrackID=

• Natural Home
  

  Rugs, bedding, carpet, cork, hardwood, paints, finishes
  http://www.naturalhomeproducts.com/

  • Earth inspired living
    http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com/living-articles/index.html

  • Stroke of Brilliance
    by Linda Ligon; May-June 2001 issue
    "Fresh paint. It speaks of air, light, color. It¼s one of the easiest ways to
    transform a tired room, to create a new mood, to celebrate summer. Fresh
    paint--can¼t you just smell it? That¼s the problem. ..."
    http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com/current-issues/archive/2001/mayjune01/brilliance.htm

• Owens Corning
  http://www.owenscorning.com/
  • Pink Panther Insulation
    http://www.owenscorning.com/around/insulation/fallpromo/index.asp

• PATH¼s Technology Inventory -- a unique source of information on technological
  innovations in the housing industry.
  http://www.nahbrc.org/toolbase/pandt/tech/index.html

• Professional House Doctors, Inc.
  http://prohousedr.com/Default.htm
  
  
  • HEALTHY HOME TEST KITSÅ
    http://prohousedr.com/phdpages/DIYTestKits.htm
    
    
  • Formaldehyde FAQ's
    http://prohousedr.com/phdpages/formfact.htm
    
    
  • Mold FAQ's
    http://prohousedr.com/phdpages/moldfact.htm
    
    
  RealWood
  Real LaPalme, B1 Contractor, Lic. 548990, Berkeley, CA
  "...Sometimes a well-designed project can be not only healthier and more durable but
  also no more costly than one done without regard for the environment. In this way, we
  have become a valuable resource to owners, builders and designers ..."
  http://www.realwood.net/
  
  • Hand-crafted with Consciousness: Solid Wood Furniture
    http://www.realwood.net/#furniture

  • Materials and Technology
    http://www.realwood.net/#materials

• Reuseable Building Material Exchange (RBME )
  http://www.rbme.com/
  
  
• Safe Environments
  R. David Bierman, REA, Environmental Consultant
  Toll Free (866) 896-5897 - (510) 549-9693 - FAX (415) 382-0612
  " ... Safe Environments has provided indoor air quality investigations and microbial
  contamination loss control (including mold and sewage losses) to thousands of
  satisfied residential and commercial customers. Although our focus is in serving
  SF Bay Area clients, we occasionally provide service throughout the Western States. ..."
  http://www.safeenvironments.com/

• Safe-Homes
  "ARTEMISS, the founder of SAFE-HOMES, is a member of The National Association
  of Environmental Professionals, and was an engineer with Southern Bell until he
  became ill from pesticide poisoning. His mission is to provide environmental
  education on indoor environmental services to the residents of our Global Village.
  It is our mission to help solve the air pollution problems in our homes or businesses
  so we can all lead a safe and happy life. SAFE-HOMES was established in North Miami
  Beach, Florida in 1991, by people with allergies and MCS (Multiple Chemical
  Sensitivities), an environmental illness. "
  Lots of links to lots of info on this site. -- barb
  http://www.safe-homes.com/

• Solar Organizations and Resources
  http://www.azsolarcenter.com/solorg.html
  • Scottsdale - Solar Organizations and Resources
    For more information on the City of Scottsdale Green Building
    Program, contact Anthony Floyd at the City of Scottsdale:
    Tel: (480) 312-4202
    http://www.azsolarcenter.com/solarorg/scottgb.html

• Sustainable Building Sourcebook
  http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/contents.html
  
  
  • Electromagnetic Fields http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/Emf.html

  • Paints, Finishes and Adhesives
    http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/finishesadhesives.html
    
    
• The Sustainable Business Alliance: Berkeley
  http://www.sustbusalliance.org/

• Tapes
  • ACE Hardware's foil tape
    http://www.acehardware.com/searchHandler/index.jsp?searchId=5289363574&keywords=foil+tape&y=11&x=14

  • Tyco Adhesives - Tape Research Results
    Foil backing; some rubber, some acrylic. -- barb
    http://www.tycoadhesives.com/site/content/tape_search_results.asp?tapeCategory=9

• Greg VanMechelen, Architect
  gvanmech@aol.com
  1634 Hearst Avenue
  Berkeley CA 94703
  510/549-9581
  Fax 510/841-9060
  Ecological architectural design ... includes strawbale buildings
  
  Member APDSR
  http://www.adpsr-norcal.org/menu/Members/MemberDirectory/AreasOfInterest.htm
  • Construction takes toll on environment
    By Allan Chen
    "...[A]ccording to Berkeley architect Greg VanMechelen. 'To the standard
    environmentalist's litany of the three R's--reduce, reuse, recycle--we have to
    add a fourth: redesign.' ..."
    http://www.lbl.gov/LBL-Publications/Currents/Archive/Apr-19-1996.html#RTFToC5

  • Green Building Referrals
    http://www.greenresourcecenter.org/Referrals/Architects.html

• Washington State Dept. of Health
  Office of Community Environmental Health Programs
  PRIMARY and SECONDARY SCHOOLS
  http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/ce/cepubs.htm#schools

BURNT (Bring Urban Recycling to Nashville Today)
http://www.aiconnect.com/~lindan/burnt.htm

Business

Remember, articles are often removed from the originating site. But you should be able to
make contact, based on the info I've provided, to seek via purchase. Also, try checking the
Internet for a mirrored version of something that strikes your fancy. -- barb

See EHN's . . .
   Consumer Information
ehnlinx/c.htm#Consumer

   Take Heart!
Access and Accommodation information, suggestions and links for cities,
hospitals, schools, workplaces, worship . . .
http://www.ehnca.org/ehnhompg/takheart.htm

   The Word IS Out!
ehnhompg/wordout.htm


MCS/CI Business Directory
http://www.naturescountrystore.com/links/links.html

• Allergy, Sensitivity & Environmental Health Association - ASEHA
  http://www.asehaqld.org.au/
  • About Fragrances: Did you know ää. Fragrances can make you ill
    Leaflet written by Dorothy M. Bowes for ASEHA Qld Inc 2004
    http://www.asehaqld.org.au/Leaflets/about_fragrances.htm

  • CHEMICAL INJURY
    Read THIS! -- barb
    http://www.asehaqld.org.au/chemical_injury_issues_paper.htm

  • CHEMICAL WARFARE AT WORK: your office is out to get you!!!!
    Article review by Dorothy M. Bowes
    http://www.asehaqld.org.au/chemical_warfare_at_work.htm

• Boston Globe - YOUR HEALTH
  Are fragrances making some people sick? By Joan Axelrod-Contrada, Globe Correspondent, 7/8/2003 http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/189/science/Are_fragrances_making_some_people_sick_+.shtml

• Business & Health
  http://www.businessandhealth.com/
  • Allergic Rhinitis, Top 10 Tips for Addressing
    Business & Health
    Action Items for Employers
    Corporate and clinical experts who participated in a Business & Health roundtable agreed
    on 10 practical tactics for employers who recognize the impact of allergies on job performance.
    "... 4. Establish a policy addressing strong odors from such sources as perfumes.
    Even if such odors contain irritants rather than allergens per se, some employees
    may have a low threshold for distress. ..."
    http://www.businessandhealth.com/hostedfiles/features/allergiesatwork/consumer/article01.htm

  • Allergies: Sniffles, Sneezes and Suffering
    The effects of allergies and their treatment go way beyond sneezing and a
    stuffy nose, impacting many aspects of sufferers' personal and professional lives.
    By Rebecca Voelker
    http://www.businessandhealth.com/hostedfiles/features/allergiesatwork/physician/article02.htm

  • Allergens in the Workplace
    Allergens can emerge in settings that appear clean, well maintained and
    chemical free...at home and at work.
    By Helen Lippman, Contributing Editor
    "... The next time you encounter the guy down the hall who always seems to
    have a runny nose and red, watery eyes, don't assume it's an intractable cold,
    a bout of seasonal hay fever or a stubborn case of the flu. Office workers
    may not be exposed to heavy chemicals in spray paints, enzymes in
    detergents or the red cedar dust in lumber, but allergists now recognize that
    office buildings can harbor a number of allergens or irritants. A sneezing,
    sniffling employee could be reacting to copy machine toner, a colleague's
    perfume, airborne spores from mold and fungi in the circulation system,
    cockroaches or other indoor irritants or allergens. ...
    
    "... The first indication that something's amiss usually comes when employees
    report what they believe to be allergicãand job-relatedãsymptoms. But
    just getting workers to the point where they're willing to come forward
    requires deliberate action. 'Employers need to educate supervisors and other
    employees,' Grammer emphasizes. 'They need to be told that if they
    develop teary eyes, wheezing, sneezing or other related symptoms, they may
    be allergic to something in the workplace and need to tell someone. And tell
    them they don't have to worry about being fired,' she adds.
    
    "Keeping workers quiet or dismissing tentative complaints is a highly
    ineffective strategy that's likely to deflate employee morale. Delay also
    significantly boosts health risks and subsequent costs. ...
    "... 'If workers with allergic symptoms are removed from the site or the
    offending substance is removed within the first six months to a year,'
    Grammer reports, 'they're unlikely to get permanent asthma. If exposure is
    much longer than that and they develop abnormal pulmonary function, only one
    in four cases of asthma will go away.' ... "
    http://www.businessandhealth.com/hostedfiles/features/allergiesatwork/physician/article04.htm

  • The Hidden Cost of Allergies
    The greatest productivity loss from allergic rhinitis comes not from employees
    taking sick days but from reduced performance among those who come to work.
    By Shelly Reese; Business & Health
    http://www.businessandhealth.com/hostedfiles/features/allergiesatwork/physician/article03.htm

  • Back to basics: Caring for the newborn's skin
    By Anna K. Mendenhall, MD, and Lawrence F. Eichenfield, MD
    "... Most parents choose a "baby" soap in the belief that it is gentler than other soaps.
    In general, this is true. Some commercial baby soaps have additives and perfumes
    that may be irritating to young skin, however. It is best to use a soap that is
    hypoallergenic and has few perfumes. ..."
    http://www.Businessandhealth.com/be_core/search/show_article_search.jsp?searchurl=/be_core/content/journals/k/data/2000/0800/keichenfield.html&navtype=b&heading=k&title=Back+to+basics%3A+Caring+for+the+newborn%26apos%3Bs+skin

  • A Medical Economics Web Exclusive
    10 things your staff would love to tell you
    A veteran medical assistant has some good-natured advice for physicians.
    By Jacqueline Wilson
    "...10. Go easy on the cologne and perfume. We're talking about anything we can still
    smell moments after you've left the room or that clings to the phone. Patients have been
    heard to comment, "This room smells like a department store perfume counter!"
    This should be number 1 on their list for reasons other than just the odor. Perfume, cologne
    and other fragrance products are volatile organic compounds that pollute the air for all, regardless
    of pre-existing health conditions. -- barb
    http://www.Businessandhealth.com/be_core/search/show_article_search.jsp?searchurl=/be_core/content/journals/m/data/2002/1025/w_dontell.html&navtype=b&heading=m&title=10+things+your+staff+would+love+to+tell+you

• Business Leadership Network
  Includes info on people with disabilities, INCLUDING MCS. Take note Human Resource managers! -- barb
  http://www.usbln.com/index.html
  • INFORMATION EMPLOYERS CAN USE
    Chemical Sensitivity in the Workplace
    " ('Fragrance Sensitivity Can Be Considered a Disability and Require Accommodation,'
    HR News, April 2001) Like any disability, sensitivities to chemicals and fragrances
    require reasonable accommodations in the workplace. [emphasis added]
    http://www.usbln.com/tools/sitemailing_2001_06.html#employers

  Business Week
  Is Your Office Killing You?
  Sick buildings are seething with molds, monoxide--and worse
  "...The culprit: a stew of largely undetected dangers--from the carbon monoxide and other contaminants sucked into a building when air-intake vents overhang exhaust-filled loading docks and parking garages, to the volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) seeping out of building materials, furniture, office equipment, carpet, paint, and pesticides, to the molds and bacteria funneled through muck-filled heating, ventilation, and cooling systems (HVACs). Even the smoke from those puffing away at entrances gets sucked back into the building, chimney-style, because of the suction from revolving doors (what engineers call ''the stack effect''). ...

  "... All this may signal the day when owner-operators make it a priority to choose
  building materials that are safer, companies demand air-quality reports before signing
  leases, and employees are as aware of their office's health as their own. Just like stock
  options and signing bonuses, workers are certain to start demanding fresh air and
  sunlight once they find out that other employees are getting them. Perhaps one day
  the office will even have its own annual checkup. If not, many American workers
  may not be around to complain. They'll be at home--sick.
  

  When you read about VOCs (volatile organic compounds), remember that all synthetically
  derived fragrances belong in that category. They are created to be highly volatile, to become
  one with the air we all must breathe, and to last longer on the ambient air (thanks to phthalates).
  NIEHS informs us that fragrance products and pesticides are
  "COMMON INDOOR AIR POLLUTANTS." -- barb
  
  http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_23/b3684001.htm

  From Business Week, you can click out to other links that pretain to this story.
  
  It is mirrored also, but alas, these don't contain the extra pages linked to from the article.
  

  http://www.anapsid.org/mask/sbsbusweek.html

  http://iaq.iuoe.org/iaq_htmlcode/iaq_news_clips/Is%20Your%20Office%20Killing%20You.htm

  PDF file: http://www.thesilentkillers.com/Air/Is%20Your%20O...%20You.pdf

• CM Cleaning and Management Institute
  http://www.cmdistribution.com/
  • Celebrity spouse Imus drives green cleaning
    By Robert Preuss
    "...The wife of one of the United States' most familiar media personalities is driving a
    green cleaning initiative from a New Jersey pediatric hospital center outward...."
    http://www.cmdistribution.com/News.asp?mode=4&N_ID=41148
    • Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology
      Hackensack University Medical Center (HUM)
      http://www.dienviro.com/
      • Greening the Cleaning
        http://www.dienviro.com/Index1.asp?BD=6325

      • Greening Your Home
        Pay close attention to #3, which spells out for you just what to avoid when shopping for
        cleaning products. Always remember that your modern synthetic scents are no longer mainly
        squished plants and animal parts, they are derived mostly from petrochemicals. -- barb
        http://www.dienviro.com/index.asp?lobid=426&qstr=

      • Sunlight Converts Common Antibacterial to Dioxin
        AScribe Newswire 14 Apr 03
        "Minneapolis - Sunlight can convert triclosan, a common disinfectant
        used in anti-bacterial soaps, into a form of dioxin, and this process may
        produce some of the dioxin found in the environment, according to
        research at the University of Minnesota. The researchers said that
        although the dioxin was a relatively benign form, treating wastewater
        with chlorine could possibly lead to the production of a much more toxic
        species of dioxin. The study is in press in the Journal of Photochemistry
        and Photobiology A: Chemistry. ..."
        http://www.dienviro.com/index1.asp?id=6608

• Fragrance: Emerging Health and Environmental Concerns
  Published by the Wiley's Flavour and Fragrance Journal
  An article by Betty Bridges, RN, worthy of your time and attention. -- barb
  http://www.fpinva.org/FragranceReview.htm

• Health Care Without Harm's info on Fragrances, Disinfectants, Cleaners and Pesticides
  http://www.noharm.org/pesticidesCleaners/issue

• How to Be Fragrance Free
  By Peggy Munson
  http://www.peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html

• (Job Accommodation Network) for Canada and the U.S.
  "A free service of the Office of Disability Employment Policy of the U.S. Department of Labor"
  http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/
  
  
  • Jan's Site map
    http://www.jan.wvu.edu/links/sitemap.html

  • JAN's Web Site Portal for Employers
    http://www.jan.wvu.edu/portals/private_er.htm

  • JAN's Web Site Portal for Individuals
    http://www.jan.wvu.edu/portals/individuals.htm

  • Accommodating People with Fibromyalgia
    Excerpted: "Respiratory Difficulties:
    
    • Provide adjustable ventilation
      
    • Keep work environment free from dust, smoke, odor, and fumes
      
    • Implement a "fragrance-free" workplace policy and
      a "smoke free" building policy ... " [Emphasis added]
    http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/Fibro.html

  • New Workplace Accommodation Challenges for the 21st Century
    Presented by
    Mandy J. Gamble, MS, CRC & Tracie D. Sabb, MS
    Human Factors Consultants; Job Accommodation Network
    A Service of U.S. DOL's Office of Disability Employment Policy
    This is a great page of information, but for those of us living with the disabiling effects of
    fragrance sensitization, use your Find Command to drop right to their section on
    Fragrance Sensitivity. These links will not open new pages. -- barb
    http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:gm5j_kCCFjkJ:janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/symposium/Symposium_Handouts/Session3.doc+EEOC+and+fragrance+accommodation&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

    or http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/symposium/Symposium_Handouts/Session3.doc

    or how I found it . . .
    http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:gm5j_kCCFjkJ:janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/symposium/Symposium_Handouts/Session3.doc+EEOC+and+fragrance+accommodation&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

  • Worksite Accommodation Ideas for Individuals
    With Fragrance Sensitivity
    This link opens a new page. -- barb
    "... Over the past several years, JAN has provided information
    regarding fragrance sensitivity and accommodations in the
    workplace. There has been a steady increase in cases related to
    chemical sensitivity, environmental illness, allergy and respiratory
    impairments. JAN Consultants have found that fragrance sensitivity
    is the most prevalent issue related to these cases. A JAN case
    database search for the term fragrance resulted in a clear increase in cases
    since 1992; 37 cases between 1992-1995, and 567 between 1996-2000." [emphasis added]
    Translation: It costs money to not control the use of scented products in the workplace.
    And for the chemically injured, the costs are beyond calculation! -- barb
    "...An employer could choose to make a request that
    employees voluntarily refrain from wearing fragrances
    or the employer could go as far as creating a policy that
    requires employees to refrain. An employer has the right to
    decide how far is reasonable when implementing accommodations. ..."
    http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/fragrance.html

  • Work-Site Accommodation Ideas for Individuals
    Who Experience Limitations Due to Chemical Sensitivity
    Environmental Illness (EI)
    "Basic Accommodation Considerations:
    
    • Provide air purification.
      
    • Provide additional rest breaks for the individual to step out for fresh air.
      
    • Create a smoke and fragrance-free work environment. ..." [Emphasis added]
      
    http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/MCS.html

• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
  "Common Indoor Air Pollutants" -- Fragrance products and pesticides are recognized.
  http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/faq/indoor.htm

• NewScientist;
  Chemical warfare at work
  By Howard Baker; NewScientist; 21 June 1997
  "... Humans are contributing to the problem in a big way.
  
  "For example, freshly dry-cleaned clothes emit a stream of trichloroethane, the solvent
  used by dry-cleaners. On a more personal note, after a good wash and freshen-up our
  bodies give off the scent molecules and other chemicals left by shampoos and
  soaps, as well as the pleasant smelling chemicals in deodorants and perfumes such as
  limonene, terpinene, camphene and alpha-pinene. Some perfumes contain as many as
  100 different ingredients providing potent additions to the office soup. On top of
  this, we contribute acetone and isoprene which our bodies produce naturally. ..."
  http://www.newscientist.com/
  OR,
  http://www.geocities.com/fragranceallergy/NewScientist21061997.html

• San Francisco Business Times
  
  
  Kaiser Permanente California settles disability access lawsuit - April 12, 2001
  "Oakland-based hospital chain Kaiser Permanente announced today a collaborative
  agreement with Disability Rights Advocates, an Oakland-based non-profit law center, to
  improve health care delivery and accessibility for members with disabilities.
  
  "The partnership and mprovements stem from the resolution of a Disability Rights
  Advocates lawsuit filed last year against Kaiser Permanente's facilities throughout
  California.
  
  "Under the settlement agreement, Kaiser Permanente agreed to make its facility medical
  equipment accessible to people with disabilities, by adding scales that a person in a
  wheelchair can use, examination tables that lower and similar items. ..."
  Ah, HA! so they say. But truth be told, Kaiser still is not truly accessible to the already
  chemically and electromagnetically injured. Despite reports in 2004 about a fragrance-free policy,
  Kaiser's staff are still wearing scents to the workplace and Kaiser still uses scented cleaning
  and maintenance products . . . as well as soap doctors are supposed to use just before
  examining patients. DUMB! Not to mention, HARMFUL. There's nothing like having to see
  one's doctor and being put in harm's way. Does the fragrance and flavors industry plot health harm as did Philp Morris and its infamous: Czech govt. can save money by killing off people? -- barb
  http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2001/04/09/daily41.html

• Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
  email: sanjose@bizjournals.com
  IN DEPTH: HUMAN RESOURCES
  What's that smell?
  Your perfume or cologne can be hazardous to your co-workers' health
  "... So is wearing fragrance a right?
  
  "Melony Massa, president and chief operation officer for Affinity Companies, a San Jose
  human-resource consulting firm, says just like dress codes and rules of conduct,
  fragrance policies have their place in the corporate rule book.
  
  " 'If somebody doesn't know the appropriate boundaries, as an employer you have
  an obligation to step in and correct that behavior just like you would correct any
  performance behavior,' she says. ..."
  By Michelle Hofmann
  I couldn't have said it better myself. Notice that OBLIGATION word. Had my former employer
  taken steps to just curtail the use of heavy scents, heavily applied, I believe -- of course, there is
  no proof! -- I'd have NOT been forced from gainful employment. Those toxic chemical products
  used by some staff could be smelled throughout a block-long building. Some of the users of these
  toxic chemical brews, had fragrance-related illnesses themselves and they certainly caused other staff to suffered their various facets of environmental illnesses.

  Fragrances contain chemicals that are known or suspected carcinogens (capable of causing cancer),
  hormone disrupters (phthalates are commonly used in fragrances to make the scent last),
  irritants (defined as POISON in my Oxford dictionary), neurotoxins (adversely affects
  brain and nervous systems), sensitizers (as far back as 1977, fragrance chemicals were
  known to be lung irritants and sensitizers) and teratogens (capable of adversely affecting
  embryonic and fetal development). That's a heady brew to unleash upon an unsuspecting public. -- barb
  http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2003/06/02/focus1.html