To keep families in touch during important life events, see CaringBridge.com
http://www.caringbridge.org/

Try preventing cancer! Now there's a concept. Remember, while you hear about cancer genes,
the truth is most cancers are environmentally caused. So, unless you want to become a
money-maker for an already huge industry, try getting to know your consumer products . . .
then switch to ORGANICs and safer, more eco-friendly, fragrance-free products. YOU can do
something about your health. Start by stopping believing the advertising slogans, jingles, hype
and poop. AND, take a minute to write to the FDA if you feel the public has a right to know
about the toxins used to make our modern synthetic perfumes in a plethora of products.
Reference FDA Petition 99P-1340 and write to fdadockets@oc.fda.gov. And then check out
your favorite carcinogenic chemicals; notice . -- barb


CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

What is complementary and alternative medicine?
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/whatiscam/

• The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States
  http://nccam.nih.gov/news/camsurvey_fs1.htm

Overall Evaluations of Carcinogenicity to Humans
http://193.51.164.11/monoeval/crthall.html

For definition of Groups see Preamble Evaluation
http://193.51.164.11/monoeval/eval.html

Thirteen OSHA-Regulated Carcinogens
"Without establishing PELs, OSHA promulgated standards in 1974 to regulate
the industrial use of 13 chemicals identified as potential occupational carcinogens.

2-acetylaminofluorene
4-aminodiphenyl
benzidine
bis-chloromethyl ether
3,3'-dichlorobenzidine
4-dimethylaminoazobenzene
ethyleneimine
methyl chloromethyl ether
alpha-naphthylamine
beta-naphthylamine
4-nitrobiphenyl
N-nitrosodimethylamine
beta-propiolactone

Throughout EHN's site, you'll see the caveat that the information provided is just that.
Information. Anything that strikes your fancy or validates your intuitive feelings should be
discussed in full with your health care practioner. Print it out and take it along on your visit.

Could it be that cancer is "incurable" because WE don't want to give up our reliance upon all
of our cosmetics and all of our other synthetically scented products used for personal care, as
well as household and janitorial cleaning and maintenance chores? (This includes pesticides,
which in turn includes disinfectants, as they are classified as pesticides.) Is cancer incurable
because we don't want to give up our "right" to have x-rays every time we turn around?
Despite the advertising, x-rays -- mammograms, full-body screenings -- don't prevent
or cure cancer . . . in fact, radiation is an acknowledged cause of cancer. Despite warnings
about alcohol and tobacco, we prefer to continue our living our life our way. Is cancer truly
incurable because we are imbued with our lifestyle? Do we not see the downside of living through
chemistry? I'll guarantee you that many of the harbingers who are living with MCS will state
that the living through chemistry isn't necessarily "better." I think we all should try for
Safer Living Through Safer Products, Proved Safer Before Marketing. Perhaps, if we did that,
each of us would start making a difference in our lives and the lives of our family. Maybe then
we'll find that asthma, MCS, . . . cancer is PREVENTABLE. Prevent "it" and you don't have
to worry about curing "it"! There are safer, alternative products. Buy and use them.

Do I know a little about cancer and its devastating effects? Yes, but fortunately, beyond three
false alarms raised, not personally. Early on was possible luekemia . . . subsequent blood tests
proved that a dieseas I'd not have to endure at that time (35+ years ago). Then, a false reading
on a PAP test. But instead of going in for surgical procedures, I had the PAP repeated. No
problems. And then, in May 1998, following 11 months being ostracized to a more toxic office in
my former workplace, I was diagnosed with a fast-growing ovarian mass. I didn't rush into
surgery when the CA 125 came back with a very low reading . . . I wanted to see my 60th birthday
with my family all gathered 'round. Besides, in my very being was the notion that the surgery
would have been a success, but a scented someone or something would have sent my blood
pressure soaring, and all the drugs would have sent me to the great beyond. As it turns out, I
turned to acupuncture. A third sonogram, requested by my acupuncturist the end of October 1998
proved that my ovary was healthy . . . I had a benign pedunculated tumor masking as an
ovarian mass. But, I did live with that ovarian mass diagnosis from early May for five and a
half months . . . and I certainly had that feeling of being broadsided by the diagnosis, which really
had confirmed my own suspicions that something was definitely wrong. I still live with my
tumor and use acupuncture and Chinese herbs for pain management . . . and with hope, we'll send
it packing. But cancer has been close to me, through my family.

My father had his lower jaw removed, along with 2/3 of his tongue, the glands in his neck
and his top rib due to cancer at age 60, in 1962. Dad smoked. He had been a handsome man. He
lived with the effects of that surger for seven years. He taught himself to speak again and returned
to his practice of chiropractic within a couple of months. Dad died in August 1969 three weeks
before his 67th birthday from the effects of a stroke . . . also a smoking-related risk.

My father-in-law, also a smoker, also developed cancer of the jaw -- the side opposite my father's.
He underwent his surgery nearly five years after my father had his. My father-in-law's cancer
spread to his lungs and he died in August 1968, 11 months following surgery. If you take time
zones into consideration, it was to become a year to the day before my father died.

My mother developed cancer of the larynx, coming on with a sudden and then lasting case of
laryngitis in May 1975. In January 1976 she had a biopsy taken, which confirmed her illness. She
refused surgery having experienced my father's plight with him. She did take cobalt treatments
and continued working until the day after Labor Day, 1976. She died Sept. 30, three weeks
before her 63rd birthday.

My mother-in-law never really smoked, although in the early years used to fancy herself an
after dinner smoker. She never inhaled, and blinked at the smoke lot -- the effect of her smoking
was not fancy in the least, but it may have saved her. She finally gave up that activity upon the
death of her husband. She lived a rather long, relatively healthy life, dying just five days before
her 98th birthday in 1998. She suffered a broken hip in October 1998 and, while she survived
the surgery, she could not win the battle against congestive heart failure and pneumonia.

My brother had basal cell carcinoma that had to be surgically removed from his eye.

Between my hubby and me, one out of four parents lived a rather long, healthy life. That one
was never a real smoker. Surgery for oral cancers are disfiguring, to say the very least.
Think twice before putting that tobacco product in your mouth.


The following links are for your consideration, to broaden your horizons. EHN and I do not make
any recommendations as to therapies, practioners, legal help, products . . . not even humor.
We do make links available for your perusal and edification. Please share information with
your healthcare practioners and your legal team. -- barb


Cancer and Cosmetics . . . It's no longer just EHN saying See the Connection!!!!!


For more information on Cancer, and particularly Breast Cancer, please visit:

CancerIQ
http://www.canceriq.org


• Possible Causes of Preventable Cancer
  Scroll down and under "The Worrisome Causes:" You'll find PESTICIDES and COSMETICS. -- barb
  http://www.canceriq.org/causes.html

• 5 Ways to Live an "Anti-Cancer" LifeStyle
  http://www.canceriq.org/lifestyle.html

Cancer Prevention
The Best Control II
by Steve Tvedten
"In 1900 cancer (malignant growths) accounted for only 4% of the U. S. deaths; this figure
rose to 15% in 1958 when Rachel Carson expressed concern it might rise even further.
Today we know I of every 2.5 Americans will get cancer and, I believe, the figure (unless
we stop acting like lemmings) will rise to virtually everyone by the year 2000."
http://www.thebestcontrol.com/bestcont/cancer.htm
• Donate to EHN when purchasing Best Control II CD. Thanks to Linda!
  The price is $149.95 as of September 2004. It's a fraction of what you'll pay for poisons and then
  for dealing with the adverse health events as a result of those poisons. I consder this a wise investment.
  If you click on the link below, 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. EHN thanks YOU and Steve's team.
  http://www.nice2people.com/ehn-order.htm

Cancer Prevention Coalition, Inc. (CPC)
Dr. Samuel Epstein
http://www.preventcancer.com/
• INSIGHTS: The Look Good ... Feel Better Program: But at What Risk?
  by Samuel Epstein, MD
  http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2005/2005-11-08-inseps.asp
  
  
Cancer Research Center of America, Inc
Dr. James Coleman
"Cancer Research Center of America, Inc. has determined what are the major causes
and sources of breast cancer and fatal breast cancer. This new information has aided
us in developing detailed, comprehensive and superior questionnaires for use in
determining what a woman can and must do to prevent a first occurrence or
recurrence of these diseases. "
http://www.cancerresearchamerica.org/edu.html
• Environmental Working Group
  As I see it, spinning off of the work Betty, several others and I did with Health Care Without
  Harm, came the information on cosmetics and fragrances by the EWG. As we brought info to the
  attention of HCWH through our working group, it first fed their website, and then we'd learn
  of EWG's reports such as Not Too Pretty and then suddenly, their Safe Cosmetics Campaign.
  All great efforts. Glad they could run with it . . . Wish more of you would learn from it. -- barb
  
  • Chronology of Cosmetics & Personal Care Products Content
    February 2007 - EWG NEWS RELEASE:
    "Fragrances Hide Toxic Chemical Ingredients -- A major loophole in federal
    law allows fragrance manufacturers to hide potentially hazardous chemicals in
    product scents, including substances linked to allergies, birth defects, and even
    cancer. ..."
    http://www.ewg.org/issues/siteindex/issues.php?issueid=5005

  • Not Too Pretty
    The report all pregnant women should read . . . more importantly, read if you are planning a
    pregnancy. Remember, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." -- barb
    http://www.nottoopretty.org/

• Dr. Mercola
  One Out of Five Cosmetics May be Contaminated With Cancer-Causing Impurity
  http://www.mercola.com/2007/mar/1/one-out-of-five-cosmetics-may-be-contaminated-with-cancer-causing-impurity.htm

• Dr. Janette Sherman, Physician - Author - Activist - Mom
  Dr. Sherman has written Life's Delicate Balance and
  Chemical Exposure and Disease Diagnostic and Investigative Techniques -- barb
  http://www.janettesherman.com/

Also see: Breast Cancer (below)

SEER - Surveilance, Epidemiology, and End Results
http://www.seer.cancer.gov/

SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1973-1999 - PDF files
All material in this report is in the public domain and may be reproduced or copied
without permission; citation as to source, however, is appreciated.
http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1973_1999/

Mammograms
I've never had one, plan never to have one. TheAmerican Cancer Society says radiation
causes cancer. I choose not to subject my healthy breasts to the radiation of a mammogram.
I nursed my three children, never took "the pill," and never took any hormone replacements.
See Thermography. -- barb
ehnlinx/m.htm#Mammogram
August 1, 2002 -- I just found this information, which I feel validates my beliefs

• Cancer Prevention
  by Ron Kennedy, M.D., Santa Rosa, California
  "Mammography
  "There also are iatrogenic (doctor caused) breast cancers. In 1971, the National
  Academy of Science published a report revealing that for every rad of x-ray exposure,
  the risk of breast cancer increased by one percent. Nine months later the ACS and NCI
  promoted a mammography project in which 300,000 women were enrolled and were
  told that the dose of radiation would be perfectly safe, and that the procedure might
  pick up breast cancer and save their lives. The minimum dose women received in this
  procedure was two rads per mammogram. Some centers administered five rads and
  some ten rads. Think of that ã an increase in cancer risk of two percent, five percent,
  or ten percent by a single test for cancer ã without being informed of the risks! ..."
  http://www.medical-library.net/sites/cancer_prevention.html

• Of mammograms and millirems
  The lowdown on radiation risks from routine breast X-rays
  "Little is known about the risks of radiation exposure from routine mammograms, experts say."
  By Francesca Lyman; MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR
  http://www.msnbc.com/news/722231.asp

• 50 Harmful Effects of Genetically Modified Foods
  http://www.cqs.com/50harm.htm

• Abandoning The Safety Net
  http://www.savedrclark.net/safetynet.htm

• NIEHS UC Berkeley Center
  Community Outreach and Education Program
  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/mutagen/center.outreach.html
  • Research and Links
    http://socrates.berkeley.edu/mutagen/center.research.html
    • The Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB)
      [CPDB] is a widely used resource on the results of chronic, long-term animal cancer tests.
      http://potency.berkeley.edu/

  • Community Outreach and Education Program
    http://socrates.berkeley.edu/mutagen/center.outreach.html

• Prevention is the Real Deal
  ;Hearts with Soul
  By Dr. James Coleman "...Many credible studies, including those by the National Cancer Institute, have well
  documented that a strong correlation exists between an increase in the incidence of
  breast cancers and the use of mammograms. Unquestionably, the radiation used in
  mammograms is a known human carcinogens. The mainstream medical community
  tries to minimize the danger of mammograms with the overused trite phrase of "risk vs.
  benefit." The plain truth is that the risk is well documented while there is absolutely
  no medical proof of any benefit. ..."
  http://heartswithsoul.com/cprevention.htm
  • A Flawed Study in Opposition to the Value of Breast Self Examination
    By James W. Coleman, Ph.D.
    ehnlinx/colesbe.htm

    I have never had a mammogram and began refusing them in my 30s, when they were a routine
    part of Kaiser's Multiphasic. It took backbone to say "No" to doctors who tried to convince me
    that I was oh so very wrong. I hope to live long enough to be vindicated on this stand, just
    as I've been vindicated on my stand against HRT. For more information see EHN's section on
    Mammography.
    By the way, my expressed feelings do not reflect the opinion of EHN board or members, these are
    my own beliefs. -- barb
    

  Also see
  REVENTING BREAST-CANCER:
  The story of a Major, Proven, Preventable Cause of This Disease.
  John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. 1996.
  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

Thermography
ehnlinx/t.htm#Thermography

Toxin-Associated Cancers
Environmental Medicine, Part 1: The Human Burden of Environmental Toxins
and Their Common Health Effects
by Walter J. Crinnion, ND
http://www.thorne.com/altmedrev/fulltext/med5-1.html

Environmental Medicine, Part 2
http://www.thorne.com/altmedrev/fulltext/envmed5-2.html

X-Ray
Please, give your close attention to the work of John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. -- barb
ehnlinx/x.htm#X-Rays

IF I were interested in breast health, as well as brain health, I'd explore the toxins in our
commonly and unwittingly used consumer products such as synthetic fragrances,
fertilizers and pesticides. Just what is known about those chemicals over long-term usage?, in
combination?, synergistically? I am exploring . . . why don't you, too?-- barb

• Cancer Self-Treatment
  "Only the cancer victim himself can properly treat his own cancer." - Dr. William Kelley
  " Whether or not you submit to the standard treatments for cancer (surgery, radiation
  and chemotherapy), there are things you can do for yourself. ..."
  http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/cancerselftreatment.htm#prevention

• In Memory of David Kibbey
  David and Charlotte chronicle some of their personal experiences. . . -- barb
  http://www.alcase.org/support/hope/in_memory/david.html

• CA - A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
  Bladder cancer"...one of the first cancers associated with industrialization..."
  http://www.ca-journal.org/articles/46/2/093-112/46_093-112_frame.htm
  
  
• Earth Crash -
  The Environment and Cancer
  (Articles from January 1999 to March 1999)
  http://www.tigerherbs.com/eclectica/earthcrash/subject/cancer2.html
  
  
• The Importance of Nutrition in Cancer Prevention
  http://www.ca-journal.org/articles/46/6/325-341/46_325-341_frame.htm
  
  
• The Prevention of Occupational Cancer
  http://www.ca-journal.org/articles/46/2/067-069/46_067-069_frame.htm

• Environmental Contaminants With Breast Cancer
  http://store.yahoo.com/annieappleseedproject/enconlintobr.html

• Ovarian & Gynecological Cancer Issues
  http://store.yahoo.com/annieappleseedproject/ovcanis.html

• Cancer Facts
  Think about cosmetics and fragrances, as well as smoking, when you think of cancer causes. -- barb
  http://theanswertocancer.com/stop_cancer.htm

• Avoidable Toxins
  http://theanswertocancer.com/avoidable_toxins.htm

• The Real War
  http://theanswertocancer.com/the_real_war.htm

• The Winnable War
  http://theanswertocancer.com/winnable.htm

• The Answer
  Here we read: "Turn off the tap." I've been saying for years, Remove your own personal pump
  handle! . . . I have even built a link to the "Pump Handle" story on EHN's page P. -- barb
  http://theanswertocancer.com/the_answer.htm

• Choices
  http://theanswertocancer.com/choices.htm

• Interesting Links
  http://theanswertocancer.com/links.htm

• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
  http://www.noah-health.org/english/about.html
  

And then, on the subject of fragrances . . . I do wish fragrances would be considered as a possible
cause of various cancers. These chemical concoctions contain carcinogens, hormone disrupters,
irritants, neurotoxins, sensitizers and teratogens. Anywhere along our time from embryonic
development and puberty, we should be studying what these chemical soups are doing to our
bodies and the bodies of our children and the creatures with whom we share this planet. -- barb

• American Society of Breast Disease
  http://www.asbd.org

• Articles that may be of some interest . . .
  
  • Alcohol -The Dangers of Alcohol Use (light and moderate consumption)
    June Russell's Health Facts
    http://www.jrussellshealth.com/alcohol.html

  • Estrogens
    http://rex.nci.nih.gov/behindthenews/uest/uestcontents.htm

  • Hormones and alcohol equally risky
    "TORONTO, Sep 29, 1999 (The Canadian Press via COMTEX) -- Women who
    drink two bottles of beer a day should be just as worried about increasing their
    breast-cancer risk as those on hormone replacement therapy. ..."
    http://www.kron.com/Global/story.asp?s=12178

  • Mammography
    "There also are iatrogenic (doctor caused) breast cancers. In 1971, the National
    Academy of Science published a report revealing that for every rad of x-ray exposure,
    the risk of breast cancer increased by one percent. Nine months later the ACS and NCI
    promoted a mammography project in which 300,000 women were enrolled and were
    told that the dose of radiation would be perfectly safe, and that the procedure might
    pick up breast cancer and save their lives. The minimum dose women received in this
    procedure was two rads per mammogram. Some centers administered five rads and
    some ten rads. Think of that ã an increase in cancer risk of two percent, five percent,
    or ten percent by a single test for cancer ã without being informed of the risks! ..."
    http://www.medical-library.net/sites/cancer_prevention.html

  • Of mammograms and millirems
    The lowdown on radiation risks from routine breast X-rays
    "Little is known about the risks of radiation exposure from routine mammograms, experts say."
    By Francesca Lyman; MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/722231.asp

  • Rising breast cancer rate fuels environmental concerns
    Health advocates urge more research on role of pollutants
    By Francesca Lyman; MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR; October 23, 2002
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/824495.asp

  • Study: Mammograms Don't Reduce Death
    By PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer
    Other studies contradict the findings
    "WASHINGTON (AP) - Annual mammogram screening for breast cancer among
    women over 50 does not reduce the rate of death from the disease when
    compared to women who receive competent physical breast examinations
    alone, according to a large Canadian study.

    The study shows that women who are unable or unwilling to get mammograms
    can protect themselves equally well from breast cancer death by getting
    thorough annual physical breast examinations, said Dr. Cornelia J. Baines of
    the University of Toronto.
    http://www.kron.com/Global/story.asp?s=134420

• Cornell University
  Environmental Chemicals and Breast Cancer Risk Why is There Concern?
  "Several groups that need further evaluation because of potential exposures to known
  or potential carcinogens ... "
  http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/bcerf/FactSheet/General/fs45.chemical.cfm

• Barbara Delinsky's Health Center
  http://www.teamuplift.com/
  • UPLIFT: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors
    "... a handbook of practical tips and upbeat anecdotes for those with breast cancer. "
    http://www.teamuplift.com/index.html

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

  • Think Before You Pink
    Breast Cancer Action
    http://www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org/Pages/CosmeticCompanies.html
    • Why Should We Care About Chemicals in Cosmetics?
      http://www.thinkbeforeyoupink.org/Pages/ChemsInCosmetics.html

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

    • The Precautionary Principle of Public Health
      http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/LearnAboutUs/PFPPrecautionary.html

• Breast Cancer: Beyond Convention (book)
  "Explains how to incorporate alternative therapeutic options into traditional treatments
  for breast cancer, discussing the benefits of soy foods, nutritional supplements, and
  the positive impact of spiritual practices.
  By Tagliaferri, Mary (Editor), Isaac Cohen (Editor), Debu Tripathy (Editor) Carried by Cody's in Berkeley, CA
  http://www.codysbooks.com/product/info.jsp?isbn=0743410114

  Also through Amazon . . . and do try your favorite book store!
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743410114/ref%3Dbr%5Fb%5Fnr%5F5/104-9022039-6823135

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

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Breast Cancer (Part One)
    Isaac Cohen, LAc, OMD, Mary Tagliaferri, MD, LAc & Debu Tripathy, MD
    Links to parts one through three, plus Formularies, and Tables and Studies. -- barb
    http://www.cancerlynx.com/chinesemedicine.html

• Breast Cancer Deception
  by Sherrill Sellman
  http://www.innerself.com/Health/breast_cancer.htm

• The Breast Cancer /EMF connection:
  Melatonin, Tamoxifen, 50-60 Hertz Electromagnetic Fields and Breast Cancer
  A Discussion Paper Compiled by Don Maisch, EMFacts Information Service, August 1997
  
  http://www.tassie.net.au/emfacts/forum/1_4ezine3.html

• Breast Cancer and the Environment
  http://www.igc.org/wri/health/slidhome.html

• Breast Cancer Fund
  http://www.breastcancerfund.org/about.htm
  A Call to Action
  Includes, "Inform Women of HRT Risks!" -- barb
  http://www.breastcancerfund.org/action.htm
  • The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer
    http://www.breastcancerfund.org/environment_key_facts.htm

  • Hot Topics and Newsletter
    http://www.breastcancerfund.org/news.htm

  • State of the Evidence: What is the Connection between Chemicals & Breast Cancer?
    edited by Nancy Evans
    © 2002 by The Breast Cancer Fund and Breast Cancer Action
    http://www.breastcancerfund.org/environment_evidence_main.htm

• Breast Cancer News
  http://cancernews.com/breast.htm

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

• Breast Cancer Research - Satyabrata Nandi
  Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
  http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/CDB/nandis.html
  
  
• Breast and Prostate cancers -- rBGH (Posilac)
  http://dorway.com/invest/bgh.shtml
  
  
• CancerLynx
  http://www.cancerlynx.com/
  • Cancerlynx - We Prowl the Net Website Search
    http://www.cancerlynx.com/sitesearch.html

• Cancer Prevention Coalition
  Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
  http://www.preventcancer.com/
  • Editorials
    http://www.preventcancer.com/editorials/index.htm

  • Press Conferences
    http://www.preventcancer.com/conference/index.htm

  • Press Releases: By Chronology (1995-2002)
    http://www.preventcancer.com/press/pr_chro.htm

• Cancer Research of America, Inc
  James W. Coleman, PhD
  "Cancer Research Center of America, Inc. has determined what are the major causes
  and sources of breast cancer and fatal breast cancer. This new information has aided
  us in developing detailed, comprehensive and superior questionnaires for use in
  determining what a woman can and must do to prevent a first occurrence or
  recurrence of these diseases. "
  http://www.cancerresearchamerica.org/
  • A Flawed Study in Opposition to the Value of Breast Self Examination
    By James W. Coleman, Ph.D.
    ehnlinx/colesbe.htm

  • Concerns over chemicals in cosmetics
    Are åplasticizing¼ substances causing health woes?
    By Francesca Lyman; October 4, 2000
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/472235.asp

    Note, I found this mirrored . . .
    http://www.california.com/~hawk/ToxinsMCS.htm

  • "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 - June 1, 2003
    By James Coleman, PhD Cancer Research Center of America, Inc.
    Includes information on Antiperspirants / deodorants and perfume. -- barb
    http://www.cancerresearchamerica.org/cosmetics.html
    Visitor's Forum -- letters by others in response to Dr. Coleman's article
    Includes my letter, suggesting safer alternatives. -- barb
    http://www.cancerresearchamerica.org/forum.html

  • Cosmetics and Breast Cancer - 2002
    By Dr. James Coleman
    Hearts with Soul
    http://heartswithsoul.com/cosmeticsbreastcancer.htm

  • Cosmetics and Fragranced Products Pose High Risks for Breast Cancer and Other Illnesses
    by James W. Coleman, Ph.D.; Breast Cancer Options
    http://www.charityadvantage.com/mhop/cosmeticsandfragranced.asp

  • Cosmetics Linked to the Causes of Breast Cancer and Fatal Breast Cancer
    http://www.cancerresearchamerica.org/edu.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

  • Proposed Study: Cosmetics and Other Beauty Aid Products that
    Contain Known Carcinogens in Relation to Breast Cancer
    http://www.cancerresearchamerica.org/study.html

  • Dr. Coleman on Mercury in a letter to the FDA
    http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/02/Sep02/091702/800296c0.txt
    From: Dr. James Coleman [info@cancerresearchamerica.org]
    Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 2:25 AM
    To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
    Subject: Docket No. 01N-0067 - Against FDA Rule
    
    To Whom It May Concern:
    
    I support Consumers for Dental Choice in wanting mercury amalgams classified as
    Class III where the manufacturers would be required to carry the burden of proving
    safety of their products.
    
    I further request that the FDA use the most recent and most relevant research from peer
    reviewed scientific publications in its decision-making process.
    
    I further request a public hearing and REBUTTAL and REPLY after new 60-day Comment
    period, and finally, I request a NEW Advisory Panel regarding mercury dental fillings.
    
    I believe that FDA's existing rule would undermine the efforts by states that have
    developed strong laws with disclosure language on the risks of mercury fillings.
    
    Sincerely,
    James Coleman, Ph.D.
    President/CEO
    Cancer Research Center of America, Inc.
    8622 Blackpool Drive
    Louisville, KY 40222-5667
    
    Tel (502) 339-1282
    Fax (502) 339-1134
    Web site: www.CancerResearchAmerica.org
    
  • Dr. Coleman on Iso E Super
    http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/Meetings/2002/Coleman_081202.pdf

  
  
• Hoxsey Therapy
  A page of links to information on the Hoxsey Therapy. -- barb
  http://hoxsey.com/
  • Bio-Medical Center (Hoxsey Clinic)
    Cure Research Foundation
    http://www.cancure.org/hoxsey_clinic.htm
    • Mildred Nelson, RN - One year after her death, the Hoxsey Therapy lives on
      Reporting and commentary © by Peter Chowka
      http://naturalhealthline.com/newsletter/01feb00/nelson.htm

    • 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

  • The Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition - Prevention is the cure!
    http://www.preventionisthecure.org/
    Breast Cancer and the Environment: Unearthing the Link
    Devra Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H. with Leon Bradlow, Ph. D.
    This information is presented in slide show format. -- barb
    http://www.preventionisthecure.org/research/index.html
    • Breast Cancer Prevention Research includes the following reports [PDF files]:
      Avoiding Toxic Triggers -A report on the latest scientific evidence linking breast
      cancer with environmental exposures is available!
      "Cancer Inc." - an expose on the cozy relationship between corporate interests
      and National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

      " The views and opinions expressed in these articles are those of their authors and do not
      necessarily express the views or opinions of HBCAC."
      http://www.preventionisthecure.org/research.html

  • Linkage of Pesticides and Breast Cancer through Lactation Studies:
    Important Public Health Issues
    Safe2Use
    http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/00-10-27c.htm

    Mammography - The other side of the story; info compiled by barb
    This section reflects my opinion, not the opinion of the EHN board, nor its membership. -- barb
    

    • Cancer Prevention Coalition
      Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., Chairman, and Professor Emeritus of Environmental and
      Occupational Medicine, University of Illinois School of Public Health, Chicago
      
      Two of my favorite main links from Dr. Epstein's site are:
      1. Press Conferences
         http://www.preventcancer.com/conference/index.htm

      2. Press Releases
         http://www.preventcancer.com/press/pr_cat.htm

      Then, to give you a view of some of his work from those two links:
      • CANCER CHARITIES INDICTED FOR LOSING THE WINNABLE WAR
        AGAINST CANCER
        Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.; CAIB Press Conference, London September 13, 1999
        http://www.preventcancer.com/conference/sept13,99.htm

      • Facts On Carcinogens At Home
        " ... Not a single cosmetic company warns consumers of the presence of carcinogens
        in its products - despite the fact that a number of common cosmetic ingredients are
        carcinogenic or carcinogenic precursors. ..."
        http://www.preventcancer.com/alerts/facts2.htm

      • Groups Call for Labeling of Cosmetics and Toiletries, Citing Cancer and
        Other Health Risks
        http://www.preventcancer.com/press/aug16,02.html
        This, in turn, spun these two articles in August 2002:
        
        • EHS - Labeling Cosmetics May Help Prevent Cancers
          http://ens-news.com/ens/aug2002/2002-08-15-01.asp
        • Ascribe - Groups Call for Labeling of Cosmetics and Toiletries, Citing Cancer
          and Other Health Risks
          http://www.ascribe-news.com/cgi-pub/d?asid=20020815.123311

      • IARC - INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER
        http://www.iarc.fr/

      • Mammography Is Dangerous Besides Ineffective, Warns Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
        http://www.preventcancer.com/press/feb6,2002.htm

      • The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) is Urged by Dr. Samuel Epstein to
        Consider Breast Examination as a Practical Alternative to Mammography
        http://www.preventcancer.com/press/may3,01.htm

    • Mammography
      "There also are iatrogenic (doctor caused) breast cancers. In 1971, the National
      Academy of Science published a report revealing that for every rad of x-ray exposure,
      the risk of breast cancer increased by one percent. Nine months later the ACS and NCI
      promoted a mammography project in which 300,000 women were enrolled and were
      told that the dose of radiation would be perfectly safe, and that the procedure might
      pick up breast cancer and save their lives. The minimum dose women received in this
      procedure was two rads per mammogram. Some centers administered five rads and
      some ten rads. Think of that ã an increase in cancer risk of two percent, five percent,
      or ten percent by a single test for cancer ã without being informed of the risks! ..."
      http://www.medical-library.net/sites/cancer_prevention.html

    • Of mammograms and millirems
      The lowdown on radiation risks from routine breast X-rays
      "Little is known about the risks of radiation exposure from routine mammograms, experts say."
      By Francesca Lyman; MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR
      http://www.msnbc.com/news/722231.asp

    • NIEHS - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
      Brainstorming Session on Breast Cancer and the Environment
      April 20, 2002 - Charlotte, NC
      http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/bcancer/home.htm

    • Overall Evaluations of Carcinogenicity to Humans As evaluated in IARC Monographs Volumes 1-78
      (a total of 869 agents, mixtures and exposures)
      http://web.archive.org/web/20010410052922/193.51.164.11/monoeval/crthall.html

    • 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
      Also see EHN's section on X-Ray
      ehnlinx/x.htm#X-Rays
      
      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

      
      
      • X-rays and Health Project (XaHP)
        John W. Gofman, MD, PhD
        email: comments@x-raysandhealth.org
        http://www.x-raysandhealth.org/
        • Three Remarkably Similar Reports on the Safe-Dose Fallacy
          http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PBC/chp45F.html

        
        
    • 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

    • News Target: Sham cancer industry relies on unproven diagnostic tests to
      scare people into cancer treatments
      Original source: The Guardian, UK
      "Here's how the cancer scam works: cancer industry operatives rely on
      entirely unproven cancer "screening" tests that have absolutely no scientific
      merit. (In fact, mammograms have been shown to actually cause cancer.) "
      I've said it before and I'll say it again, NO MAMMOGRAMS FOR ME! -- barb
      http://www.newstarget.com/000895.html
      • Researcher says whole body medical imaging scans have no medical benefit
        http://www.newstarget.com/004060.html

      • Now, to meet the Health Ranger, Mike Adams (a man after my own heart! Read on.)
        The Health Ranger "Avoid List":
        (near bottom of page)
        • Sodium nitrite (causes cancer)
        • MSG / monosodium glutamate / yeast extract (causes obesity and nerve damage)
        • Hydrogenated oils (causes heart disease)
        • High-fructose corn syrup / sugar / sucrose (causes diabetes and obesity)
        • Artificial colors (causes behavioral disorders)
        • Aspartame (causes brain damage, optic nerve damage)
        • Homogenized milk fats (cause heart disease and cardiovascular disorders)
        • Red meat (absolutely no beef, pork, or other red meat)
        • Cows' milk, cheese and dairy products
        • Soft drinks, junk foods, snack foods or fast foods
        • Processed foods such as cookies, crackers, frozen dinners, etc.
        • Fried foods
        • White flour and any foods containing white flour
        • Refined carbohydrates such as breads, cereals, pastries, pizza dough, etc.
        • Fruit juice drinks
        • Brand-name laundry detergents (loaded with toxic fragrance chemicals)
        • Popular deodorants (contain aluminum)
        • Fluoride toothpaste (fluoride is a dangerous ingredient)
        • Popular shampoos / soaps / conditioners (all contain harmful fragrance chemicals)
        • Dryer sheets (contain fragrance chemicals)
          http://www.newstarget.com/adamshealthstats.html

    • Prevention is the Real Deal
      By Dr. James Coleman;Hearts with Soul
      "...Many credible studies, including those by the National Cancer Institute, have well
      documented that a strong correlation exists between an increase in the incidence of
      breast cancers and the use of mammograms. Unquestionably, the radiation used in
      mammograms is a known human carcinogens. The mainstream medical community
      tries to minimize the danger of mammograms with the overused trite phrase of "risk vs.
      benefit." The plain truth is that the risk is well documented while there is absolutely
      no medical proof of any benefit. ..."
      http://heartswithsoul.com/cprevention.htm
      • A Flawed Study in Opposition to the Value of Breast Self Examination
        By James W. Coleman, Ph.D.
        ehnlinx/colesbe.htm

    • Progesterone Advocates Network
      http://www.progestnet.com/
      • Ovarian, Uterine, Cervical Cancer and Hormones
        "...Most women in western civilization are estrogen dominant, due to environmental
        exposures such as: pollution, solvents, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, car exhaust,
        emulsifiers found in soaps and cosmetics, industrial waste, meat and dairy products
        from animals fed estrogen, birth control pills, and synthetic estrogens & progestins
        frequently prescribed to millions of women. ..."
        http://www.progestnet.com/documents/ovarian_cancers.html

    • Study: Mammograms Don't Reduce Death
      By PAUL RECER, AP Science Writer
      http://www.kron.com/Global/story.asp?s=134420

  • Marin Cancer Project
    http://www.marincancerproject.org
    • We Want To Know Why
      Marin has the highest overall cancer rate in the bay area.
      Prostate Cancer is 26% higher than anywhere in California.
      Breast Cancer rates are 60% higher than anywhere else in the country.
      http://www.marincancerproject.org/Home.htm

    • Resources
      http://www.marincancerproject.org/Resources.htm

  • Redflagsweekly.com THE STORY OF A WOMAN WHO SOUGHT ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL CARE TO
    DEFEAT HER CANCER
    By Marilyn Holasek Lloyd; December 5, 2002
    http://redflagsweekly.com/lloyd/2002_dec05.html

  • Rising breast cancer rate fuels environmental concerns
    Health advocates urge more research on role of pollutants
    By Francesca Lyman; MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR; October 23, 2002
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/824495.asp

    And now for a twist in thinking . . .
    SICK? WELL? ... SUNBATHING HELPS YOU AND EVERYONE
    By Dr. Bernarr, D.C. D.D.
    SUNBATHING DOES NOT CAUSE CANCER OF THE SKIN NOR WRINKLES.
    SUNBATHING HELPS HEAL CANCER OF THE SKIN.
    And Dr. Bernarr writes of Dr. Kime:
    

    Cancer is helped by sunbathing, writes Dr. Zane R. Kime. Kime writes that those who
    get more sunlight have less cancer. Sunbathing heals cancer by building up the immune
    system and increasing the oxygen in the tissues. Sunlight does not cause skin cancer.
    Healthy people do not get cancer and -unhealthy people do get it. Chronic sunburn
    combines with free radicals to cause skin cancer. Sunlight may change free radicals,
    dietary fat, cholesterol and deranged antioxidants via cooked foods into skin cancer.
    Under the influence of sunlight, these toxic foods are brought to the skin. Cooked foods
    have had their antioxidants, particularly vitamins C and E, reduced or deranged by
    cooking. The sources of free radicals are mainly dietary fat, especially polyunsaturated
    fats, but also fats and oils applied to the skin in suntan lotion and other cosmetics.
    Suppression of the 'immune system by drugs may be involved in skin cancer that is
    stimulated by sunlight. X-rays and chemotherapy cause cancer.
    http://www.healself.org/sun.html

    My mother used to rub a raw apple on my skin to keep it from burning. -- barb

    
    

  • 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

    
    
  • Time
    http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020218/
    • Rethinking Breast Cancer
      New detection techniques and treatments are excitingãand confusing. A guide to saving lives
      By Christine Gorman
      http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020218/story.html

      Print Rethinking ...
      http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,201867,00.html

  • Understanding Breast Cancer
    This site gives info on the more routine ways of dealing with breast cancer. -- barb
    http://www.understandingbreastcancer.com
    • "Cosmetics and Beverage Alcohol with Carcinogenic and Estrogenic Links to Breast Cancer"Ý Ý
      by James W. Coleman, Ph.D., Cancer Research Center of America, Inc., Louisville, KY
      http://www.understandingbreastcancer.com/cosmetics.htm

  • Women's Personal Health Resource
    "Our goal is to offer you a variety of products that will enable you to achieve a
    sense of renewed self-confidence."
    http://www.womanspersonalhealth.com/

  • Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE)

    http://www.wildrockies.org/
    
    

    • Breast Cancer
      http://www.wildrockies.org/WVE/issuesd.htm

    
    
  -- end breast cancer category --
  
  
  And let's STOP cancer! We can do much to control cancer as it is mostly an environmental
  illness! Make wise purchases; if you don't know about the chemicals used by the manufacturer,
  stop purchasing their products. Safer products and safer means are available, including for
  pest management. YOU can use them! The already chemically injured do. -- barb
  
  
  
• Burzynski Research Institute
  Stanislaw R. Burzynski, MD, PhD
  9432 Old Katy Road, Suite 200, Houston, Texas 77055
  ph. 713.335.5697 fax 713.335.5699 email: info@burzynskiclinic.com
  http://www.cancermed.com/index.htm
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    http://www.cancermed.com/faqs.htm

    Write up athttp://63.173.141.67/treatment/clinicburzynski.html

• Cancer Awareness and Prevention
  Shelley Kramer: Public Health and Cancer Prevention Awareness Educator, and the
  Local Office Director for the Los Angeles, CA, Chapter of the Cancer Prevention Coalition.
  http://www.healthy-communications.com/goalofthecancerpreventioncoalition.html

• The Cancer Cure Foundation
  http://www.cancure.org/home.htm
  • Actual Cases of Cancer Victors
    http://www.cancure.org/cancer_victors.htm

  • Alternative Cancer Therapies
    http://www.cancure.org/choiceoftherapy.htm

  • MEDICAL ERRORS, THE FDA, AND PROBLEMS WITH PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
    http://www.cancure.org/medical_errors.htm

  Cancer and Enviornment
  "Our web site is a resource that provides science-based information on the relationships
  between breast cancer and environmental risk factors, including pesticides and
  dietary factors. Our materials are developed for a diverse audience, including consumers,
  educators, public policy makers, scientists, media representatives. "
  And, I might add, for those of you who have family pets. -- barb
  http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/
  • Animals and Cancer
    CRSSCA - Cancer Registry & Surveillance System for Companion Animals
    http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/anireg.cfm

  • Companion Animal Tumor Registry will track pets' cancers, help
    determine risk of human exposure to environmental carcinogens ITHACA, N.Y. -
    http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/anireg2.cfm

• CANCER - How To Prevent It - How To Transform It
  "CRUEL STATISTICS: 1,500 People A Day Die From Cancer! "
  4manhealth.com
  http://www.4manhealth.com/cancer.html

  
  

  • Cancer In Your Bathroom - CANCER ALERT!
    " WOULD YOU ....... Wash your hair and brush your teeth with brake fluid,
    engine degreaser or anti-freeze?
    YOU PROBABLY ARE AND DON'T EVEN KNOW IT! - You and your family may be
    exposed to potential cancer causing agents every time you enter the bathroom.
    http://www.4manhealth.com/harmful2.html

• Cancer Prevention Coalition
  Dr. Samuel Epstein
  Read Dr. Epstein's press releases and his books. -- barb
  http://www.preventcancer.com/
  • CARCINOGENS in COSMETICS and TOILETRIES
    Click out to the links available from this page for the lists of chemicals. -- barb
    http://www.preventcancer.com/CosmeticsToiletries/index.htm

  • CANCER RISKS OF SMOKING COMPARED TO USING COSMETICS AND TOILETRIES
    http://www.preventcancer.com/CosmeticsToiletries/SmokingCancerRisks.html

  • Cancer Prevention Alerts
    http://www.preventcancer.com/alerts/index.htm

  • CPC's CITIZEN PETITIONS and Press Releases
    http://www.preventcancer.com/CosmeticsToiletries/CitPetPressRel.html
    • PressReleases by Category
      http://www.preventcancer.com/press/pr_cat.htm
      • Groups Call for Labeling of Cosmetics and Toiletries, (August 16, 2002)
        http://www.preventcancer.com/press/aug16,02.html
        This, in turn, spun these two articles in August 2002:
        
        • EHS - Labeling Cosmetics May Help Prevent Cancers
          http://ens-news.com/ens/aug2002/2002-08-15-01.asp

        • Ascribe - Groups Call for Labeling of Cosmetics and Toiletries, Citing Cancer
          and Other Health Risks
          http://www.ascribe-news.com/cgi-pub/d?asid=20020815.123311

      
      
    • Mammography Is Dangerous Besides Ineffective, Warns Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
      http://www.preventcancer.com/press/feb6,2002.htm

    • UNREASONABLE RISK. How to Avoid Cancer from Cosmetics and
      Personal Care Products: The Neways Story (2001)
      http://www.preventcancer.com/books/UnreasonableRisk.htm

    
    

• Cancer Research Center of America, Inc.
  Our investigative study focuses on known carcinogens in cosmetics, personal care
  products and other everyday products that are in widespread use by girls and women.
  http://www.cancerresearchamerica.org/
  • Cosmetics Linked to the Causes of Breast Cancer and Fatal Breast Cancer
    http://www.cancerresearchamerica.org/edu.html

  • Link between Cosmetics and Cancer Being Studied
    An editorial that appeared November 13, 2000 in the Readers' Forum,
    Louisville Courier-Journal.
    actnletr/lcedcole.htm

  • Proposed Study
    "After decades of research, we have determined what are the major
    causes and sources of breast cancer and fatal breast cancer. "
    http://www.CancerResearchAmerica.org/study.html

• Cancer Shock in Cosmetics -- This News article appeared in the
  UTUSAN - Konsumer - newspaper article, published December 1998
  Healthy Communications.com.
  http://www.healthy-communications.com/konsumer1.html

• Environment Blamed for Majority of Tumors
  BY Rick Weiss; Washington Post, July 13, 2000; San Jose Mercury News
  http://www.nofluoride.com/cancer.htm

• Environmental Causes of Child Cancers and Remission Information
  Wayne Sinclair, M.D., Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
  Cancer Causes Research Index
  http://www.chem-tox.com/cancerchildren/default.htm

• Environmental Health Policy
  http://www.envirohealthpolicy.net/
  Children, Cancer, and the Environment
  
  • Is Childhood Cancer Increasing?Ý
    http://www.envirohealthpolicy.net/kidstest/Cancer%20Pages/IncreasingChildhoodCancer.htm

  • What cancers affect children?Ý http://www.envirohealthpolicy.net/kidstest/Cancer%20Pages/WhatCancersAffectChildren.htm

• FDA panel backs pill for breast cancer
  by Lauran Neergaard / The Associated Press
  http://www.seattle-times.com/news/health-science/html98/brea_032098.html
  
  
• Fragrance s that are possible carcinogens
  Fragrance Products Information Network
  http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/FragMatTox.htm
  
  
• HARMFUL INGREDIENTS TO AVOID,
  WHICH MAY BE FOUND IN YOUR PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS
  http://newaysteam.com/harmful.htm
  • Neways Highly Effective Ingredients! http://newaysteam.com/effectiveingr.htm

  Healing Journeys
  "Our Mission is to promote and support healing by assisting people with cancer or
  other life-altering illnesses to access their own healing potential and their ability to thrive.
  http://www.healingjourneys.org/

Living Downsteam: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment

Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.
http://www.Steingraber.com/


Lymphoma

• LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
  P.O. Box 15335, Chevy Chase, MD 20825
  "This site does not contain any drug company advertisements or industry promotions."
  http://www.lymphomahelp.org/docs/research/research_intro.asp
  • Pesticides Research Report: Do Pesticides Cause Lymphoma?
    http://www.lymphomahelp.org/docs/research/research_report.asp

  
  
Marin Breast Cancer Watch
Note: Link will open new page -- close to return to EHN. -- barb
http://www.breastcancerwatch.org

Melanoma Patients Information Page
http://www.mpip.org/

Molecular Medicine, Institute for
http://www.immed.org/



• Cancer
  http://www.immed.org/prod/cancer/mlbiol.html
  
  
• Chronic Diseases
  http://www.immed.org/prod/chronic/chronic1.html

The Moss Reports Q&A
http://www.ralphmoss.com/brochure.html



• SHUTTING DOWN REVICI - From The Cancer Chronicles #19
  © January 1994 by Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
  Note: Dr. Revici died January 8, 1998 at the age of 101. -- barb
  http://www.ralphmoss.com/revici.html
  
  
• National Toxicology Program (NTP) - NIEHS
  
  • Report on Carcinogens (RoC), 9th edition. - May 2000
    "Tamoxifen has been added to the 9th edition of this Report. It is listed as
    'known to be a human carcinogen' ..."
    http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/NewHomeRoc/9RoCFacts.html

  Oral Cancer
  
  • Oral Cancer Info
    with informative photos -- barb
    http://www.stevedds.com/oral.htm

    Vet Dentistry and Oral Cancer photos
    http://www.vetdentistry.com/oral.html

  People Against Cancer
  Cancer & Alternative Medicine
  Breast, Lung, Pancreatic, Skin, Colon, Ovarian, Cervical
  
  "In the treatment of a sick person, the doctor must
  be free to use a new therapeutic measure,
  if in his judgment it offers hope of saving life,
  re-establishing health, or alleviating suffering."
  
  DECLARATION OF HELSINKI
  Adopted by the World Medical Assembly
  1964, Helsinki, Finland
  
  http://www.peopleagainstcancer.com/default.htm

  New York Times Article Discusses Rise in Child Cancers
  Note: the NY Times archives articles, but they are available for a price.
  http://www.chem-tox.com/cancer/NYTIMES.HTM
  
  Orthomolecular Treatment of Cancer
  A.Hoffer PhD MD FRCP
  http://www.islandnet.com/~hoffer/
  
  Ovarian
  

  • "An Ounce Of Research And A Pound Of Prevention --
    California's Role In Cancer Research And Awareness."
    [Scroll down to their site of links under] "For More Information on Ovarian Cancer:"
    http://www.assembly.ca.gov/demweb/members/a09/a09cancer.htm
    
    
  • Ovarian Cancer: A Guide to Patient Care (with diagrams)
    http://gynoncology.obgyn.washington.edu/Documentation/Ovarian%20Ca1.html
    
    
  • Ovarian Cancer -- Lycos links
    http://www.lycos.com/wguide/wire/wire_143834_59588_3_1.html
    
    
  • Ovarian Plus International: Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Quarterly (TM)
    Hard-to-find facts for the 21st Century information-seeker; Copyright ©1999 Ceil Sinnex
    (Discussion of CA125 marker test)
    http://www.monitor.net/ovarian/default.html
    
    
    • Ovarian Cancer and Talc Powder
      A Sixty-Year Scandal of Informed Neglect
      http://www.monitor.net/ovarian/talc.html
    
    
    
  • Talcum Powder and Ovarian Cancer?
    http://www.parentsplace.com/health/newborncare/qa/0,3435,967,00.html
    
    
    
    
  Pau D'Arco
  
  • BC Cancer Agency
    PAU D'ARCO / TAHEEBO TEA / LAPACHO / LAPACHO MORADO / IPE ROXO / IPE / TRUMPET BUSH
    http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/uct/paudarco-taheebotea-lapacho-lapachomorado-iperoxo-trumpetbush.shtml

  • Pau D'Arco (Tabebuia Altissima) "What is new is not necessarily true, What is true is not necessarily new."
    by Louise Tenney; From Cancer News Journal, Spring 1982 Issue.
    http://www.eco-logic-systems.com/els_ipe_medical.htm

    Pau D'Arco/Raintree
    http://www.rain-tree.com/paudarco.htm
    
    

    • Methods of Preparing Traditional Herbal Remedies
      http://www.rain-tree.com/prepmethod.htm

  • Red-Purple Lapacho/ Pau D'Arco
    http://www.healthfree.com/herbgarden/lapacho.htm

  Prevent Cancer.com
  aka: Cancer Prevention Coalition
  Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, Chairman of the CPC
  http://www.preventcancer.com/
  
  

  • Cancer Prevention Alerts (includes the following)
    http://www.preventcancer.com/cpc/coming.htm
    
    
    • Facts On Carcinogens At Home
      http://www.preventcancer.com/alerts/alert4.html
      
      
    • HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS: Questions and Answers
      http://www.preventcancer.com/alerts/alert7.html
      
      
    • LINDANE: Questions and Answers
      http://www.preventcancer.com/alerts/alert2.html
      
      
  Prostate and Breast cancers -- rBGH (Posilac)
  
  http://dorway.com/invest/bgh.shtml
  
  
  Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of
  Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease: Dose-Response Studies with
  Physicians per 100,000 Population
  John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph. D.
  Professor Emeritus, Molecular and Cell Biology
  University of California, Berkeley
  http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/RMP/
  
  
  • X-rays may kill, Berkeley professor says He cites own nationwide radiation study November 22, 1999 By William Brand; STAFF WRITER (Frankly, I do not have dental xrays made, nor do I have mamograms. -- barb) Find through search: http://www.newschoice.com/newspapers/alameda/tribune/default.asp

  Dr. Emanuel Revici
  

  • The Practice of Emanuel Revici
    http://www.kkorinsmd.net/revici1.htm
    
    
    • The Revici Foundation For Lipid Biomedical Research, Inc.
      http://www.kkorinsmd.net/foundation.htm
      
      
  • Revici's Natural Cancer Protocol
    by Eva Urbaniak, N.D.
    From Well Being Journal Vol. 7, No. 6 ~ November/December 1998
    by Eva Urbaniak, N.D.
    "...His work deserves much more attention and incorporation into mainstream
    medicine. Let us hope that cancer sufferers will seek out and find the doctors who are
    carrying on his phenomenal work. "
    http://wellbeingjournal.com/revici.htm

  Risk Factors and Protective Factors for Diseases and Injuries
  http://ushpp.org:8082/risk1.htm

  San Francisco Chronicle
  

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

  Sapient Health Network: Women's Health Place
  
  http://women.shn.net/index.html
  
  
  Scots study may link deodorant to breast cancer
  By Sue Leonard; October 31 1999; SCOTLAND; The Sunday Times
  http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/resources/sunday_times_searchpage.html

  Silent Spring Institute
  Researching the environment and women's health
  http://www.silentspring.org/index.html
  
  

  • Associations Between Selected Risk Factors and Breast Cancer
    But there is no hint of the carcinogenic properties of synthetic fragrances. -- barb
    http://www.silentspring.org/Projects/Capestudy/risktable.html

  • Selected Publications by Silent Spring Institute's Staff
    Includes PDF file for "Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Study" and
    "Social Differences in Women's Use of Personal Care Products ..." -- barb
    http://www.silentspring.org/Publications/pubs.html
    
    
  • Social Differences in Women's Use of Personal Care Products:
    A Study of Magazine Advertisements
    http://www.silentspring.org/Projects/Magazine/magazine.html

    
    Sandra Steingraber -- "Cornell author warns about breast milk "
    http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf?/newsstories/state/20000422_rpnmilk.html

    Stop Cancer.org
    

    http://www.stopcancer.org/
    
    
    Stop Cancer Where it Starts!
    
    http://www.igc.apc.org/justice/tlc/tour.html
    
    
    Talcum Powder and Ovarian Cancer?
    http://www.parentsplace.com/health/newborncare/qa/0,3435,967,00.html
    
    Texas Cancer Center -- Your guide to limited surgeryÝin the treatment of cancerÝ
    
    http://web-hou.iapc.net/~raevans/
    
    Testicular Cancer
    
    • Declining Semen Quality and Increasing Incidence of Testicular Cancer:
      Is There a Common Cause? Elisabeth Carlsen, Aleksander Giwercman, Niels Keiding, and Niels E. SkakkebÊk
      Environmental Health Perspectives; 103, Supplement 7, October 1995
      "... Evidence for increasing levels of estrogens during the past half century comes from
      several sources. Probably most important have been the overall change in diet and the
      increasing use of environmental chemicals, many of which are weak estrogens. ... "
      Environmental chemicals? Think FRAGRANCES as you think of others you hear about. -- barb
      http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1995/Suppl-7/carlsen.html

      Full article for those who subscribe:
      http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/members/1995/Suppl-7/carlsen-full.html

    • Disease Strikes Young Men the Hardest
      Cancer experts worry that environmental pollution might be responsible for the high
      increases in testicular cancer over the last 30 years. (Marco Doelling/ABCNEWS.com)
      By Claudine Chamberlain; ABCNEWS.com
      http://www.getipm.com/articles/testi-cancer.htm

    • Testicular Cancer Again Associated with Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Plastic
      http://www.med.harvard.edu/chge/Solomonfull-v2n2.htm#Testicular 

    • Testicular Cancer Risk Set Early in Life
      Reuters Health
      http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=3&u=/nm/20030901/hl_nm/cancer_testicular_dc

      Printer friendly: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&u=/nm/20030901/hl_nm/cancer_testicular_dc&printer=1

    The Truth About Cancer
    By Harry A. Knopper M.D.
    http://user.icx.net/~drherb/cancer.html

    
    
    WHALE - cancer information
    Cancer, vaccinations, dental toxicity and much more ... a whale of a site! -- barb
    http://www.whale.to/cancer.html
    
    Women's Cancer Resource Center (WCRC)
    http://www.wcrc.org
    
    Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE)

    http://www.wildrockies.org/
    
    

    • Breast Cancer
      http://www.wildrockies.org/WVE/issuesd.htm

    Wyoming Cancer Surveillance Program
    http://wdhfs.state.wy.us/cancer/
    
    

  -- end cancer links --
  
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  Candida
  

  • Candida albicans information
    http://alces.med.umn.edu/Candida.html
    
    
  • Candida and Multiple Sensitivities
    http://hometown.aol.com/candidamcs/index.html

  • Candida site links
    http://www.cfs-recovery.org/MedEstab.htm
    
    
  • The Candida Yeast Answer^(TM)
    http://candida.bellnet.com/
    
    
  • Candida or Yeast Overgrowth: What is it? How Can I tell If I Have it?
    http://members.aol.com/caloradpoe/Candida.html
    
    
  • Chronic Candidiasis
    http://www.healthwell.com/healthnotes/Concern/Chronic_Candidiasis.cfm

  • The Chronic Candidiasis Syndrome
    Does anyone know where Doc Darren's site is now? (12/31/00) -- barb
    http://members.aol.com/docdarren/med/candida.html
    
    
  • 1^st Herb Source
    http://www.1stherbsource.com/candida/index.html
    
    
  
  
  Candles
  
  • Black Soot
    http://www.eisc.ca/blacksoot.htm

  • Black Soot Deposition (BSD) - EPA Report: Candles & Incense
    http://www.ksl.com/dump/news/cc/series/candepa.htm

  • A Burning Dilemma E/The Environmental Magazine
    http://www.eisc.ca/burning-dilema.htm

  • 
    
    Candle Soot
    Note: I've been taught a trick by David Brown of Dirt Cheap Organics
    Candle Soot links will open a new page. Close the links to return to EHN's site. -- barb
    http://candlesoot.com
    • Candles and Indoor Air Quality
      Same page as Candle Soot, just the old way to get there. -- barb
      http://www.fiscorp.net/iaq/
      
      
  • Dear Annie & Doug in YES!
    ...aromatherapy candles burning in an unvented office ...
    http://www.yesmagazine.org/12Climatechange/yesbuthow.html
    
    
  • Defective Candles Lead Poisoning
    http://www.dldewey.com/cand799.htm
    
    
  • Don't blow off candle safety -- watch the wicks
    CNN with WEBMD.com - February 1, 2000
    http://www3.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/02/01/scented.candles.wmd/
    
    
  • EPA - Candles and Incense as Potential Sources of Indoor Air Pollution:
    Market Analysis and Literature Review
    EPA 600/R-01/001; March 2001
    http://www.epa.gov/ord/NRMRL/Publications/600R01001.htm

  • Homeowners Soot Damage Discussion
    Cathy Flanders
    http://disc.server.com/Indices/41692.html
    
    
  • Lead There Be Light: Some candle wicks emit toxic fumes
    By Liz Lynch
    HealthSCOUT Reporter
    http://www.healthscout.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Af?ap=55&id=66153
    
    
  • Lead Wicks
    Note: I've been taught a trick by David Brown of Dirt Cheap Organics
    Lead Wicks links will open a new page. Close the links to return to EHN's site. -- barb
    This is a discussion board.
    http://www.leadwicks.com/

  • Let's Gossip About Candlemaking
    Discussion board. -- barb
    http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=129598&article=15477

  • JAMA: Research Letters -- Lead Exposure From Candles
    http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n2/full/jlt0712-6.html
    
    
  • MSNBC
    
    • Candles: a burning controversy
      Francesca Lyman; SPECIAL TO MSNBC
      http://www.msnbc.com/news/523325.asp

  • Public Citizen joins the struggle for lead-free wicks!
    
    • INFORM the Consumer Products Safety Commission!
      YOU have until June 12, 2000
      Public Citizen's petition
      http://www.citizen.org/hrg/PUBLICATIONS/1510.htm
      
      
    • Millions of Dangerous Candles Sold Throughout U.S.
      Lead Wicks Pose Major Safety Hazard, Especially to Children
      by Public Citizen
      http://www.citizen.org/press/pr-sid29.htm
      
      
  • Product Recall: Xanadu Candles Recalled for Posing Fire Hazard
    "On March 8, 2001, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced the
    Xanadu Candle Company of Guatemala was voluntarily recalling nearly 3 million candles. ..."
    http://aolsvc.health.webmd.aol.com/content/article/3736.234

  • Scented Candles and Indoor Air Pollution - Criterion Labs
    "... In addition to the damage caused by this soot to home furnishings and the ventilation
    system, there may also be a health hazard associated with breathing the sub-micron
    particulate soot, especially among the elderly, children, and those with compromised
    respiratory systems. These small particulates bypass the body¼s defense mechanisms,
    and can be breathed deep into the lungs, and become embedded in the lining of the
    lungs." Use your browser's Find Command. And my two bits' worth: Too bad folks don't understand
    that while their bodies may be able to process the initial load of superfluous toxins, sooner or
    later they, too, will fall ill to one of the chronic illnesses -- the rates of which are burgeoing. -- barb
    http://www.criterionlabs.com/archives.htm

  • Scented Candles Kill Pet Birds!
    by Monica Sudds Certified Avian Specialist
    President Beakers Parrot Society
    Iowa State Coordinator for the American Federation of Aviculture
    http://www.birdlink.com/Info/candle.html

  • Some Candles Emit Dangerous Levels Of Lead
    A University of Michigan School of Public Health study of candles purchased from
    stores in southeast Michigan shows that some candles on the market today are made
    with wicks that have either lead or lead cores that emit potentially dangerous levels of
    lead into the air.
    http://www.unisci.com/stories/19994/1007992.htm
    
    
  • US Scented Candles Study
    http://www.lead.org.au/lanv7n4/L74-9.html

  
  
  

  -- end candles --

  
  Canola Oil
  

  • Beware of Canola Oil
    Shirley's Wellness Cafe
    http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/canola.htm

  • CANOLA OIL - Deadly for the Human Body!
    http://www.karinya.com/canola.htm

  • Canola Information Site
    presented by Canbra Foods Ltd., makers of Canola Healthy Products
    http://www.canola.com/

  • Hydrogenated Oils Are Silent Killers
    September 18th, 1998
    David Lawrence Dewey
    http://www.dldewey.com/hydroil.htm

  CAPAY - FARM FRESH TO YOU
  http://members.xoom.com/FarmFresh/index.html
  
  New URL, but I can't get into it -- barb
  http://farmfresh.homepad.com
  
  

  Where deliver? In N. California, we deliver in most San Francisco, Marin,
  Contra Costa, Berkeley-Oakland-Alameda, San Mateo and San Jose areas ...
  [plus others, click on frame to find out.]
  
  CAPOW (Coalition Against Poisoning Our World)
  http://members.xoom.com/oneearth/capow/page2.html
  
  Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
  
  • AIM: Symptoms of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
    http://209.153.232.170/index2.cfm?CatID=1&subCatID=5
    
    
  • Environmental Health Perspectives
    http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2000/108-12/forum.html#beat
    
    
    Oxygen Mix Saves Lives
    
    Doctors at Toronto General Hospital have invented a device that can eliminate
    carbon monoxide (CO) from the body three times faster than conventional
    treatment. Conventional treatment calls for giving the patient pure oxygen, but
    the Toronto researchers found that delivering a mix of oxygen and carbon
    dioxide clears CO from the body faster. The new device requires only simple
    modifications to the regular oxygen masks and tanks already found in
    ambulances and hospitals.
    
    Researcher Joseph Fisher says that CO is the leading cause of fatal poisoning in
    the industrialized world. Because symptoms of poisoning can swiftly progress
    to coma and even death, it is critical to eliminate CO from the exposed patient's
    body as soon as possible.

    
    
  • Protocol for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
    by Albert Donnay, MHS, Environmental Health Engineering
    President, MCS Referral & Resource
    http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/articles/P11.html

  Carbonless Copy Paper (CCP)
  
  • BusinessWeek
    What's that smell?
    http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_50/b3711180.htm

    Carbonless Copy Paper
    http://www.carbonless.org/
    
    

    • Scanned documents supporting the information about CCP
      http://www.carbonless.org/scans.htm
      
  • NIOSH Report (PDF file)
    http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/01-107pd.html

  • 
    NY Times - "Sick of Paperwork? Some Office Workers Say It's the Paper"
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/sunday/092699personal-paper.html
    Illustration of chemicals in CCP
    http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/sunday/092699personal-paper.1.GIF.html

  
  
  Carbyl
  Also see EHN's page on Pesticides and Inerts
  ehnlinx/pestcide.htm
  
  
  • What is Carbyl?
    http://www.safe2use.com/poisons-pesticides/pesticides/misc/sevin-carbaryl-CU.htm

  Carcinogens
  
  • Benzene, Lubricants and AIDS
    by Stephen C. Byrnes, Ph.D., D.N.T. www.naturalhawaii.com/byrnes.htm
    This paper originally appeared in Explore!, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1997
    http://www.all-organic-food.com/benzene.htm

  • EXAMPLES OF SELECT CARCINOGENS
    Hazardous Waste Manual - Appendices E - H
    http://www.ehs.iastate.edu/publications/manuals/wasteappendicesII.htm

  Cardiovascular Diseases
  Also see EHN's General Links, page H, Heart
  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.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4277113.stm

  • BIOMARKERS of MCS
    Abnormal Medical Tests and Physical Signs Associated with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
    Compiled by Albert Donnay, MCS Referral & Resources, adonnay@mcsrr.org,
    410-362-6400, 2/1999, rev'd 8/2000
    "Cardiac: tachycardia, other arrhythmia, mitral valve prolapse (Ziem 1997), abnormal
    echocardiogram (Bell 1998a, Baldwin 1998a)"
    http://www.mcsrr.org/resources/biomarkers.html

  • Cardiovascular Toxicants
    environmental defense
    http://www.scorecard.org/health-effects/explanation.tcl?short_hazard_name=cardio

  • The Environmental Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease
    By William J. Rea, MD, FACS,
    Environmental Control Unit, Brookhaven Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
    http://www.aehf.com/articles/A15.htm

  • Environmentally Triggered Cardiac Disease
    William J. Rea, MD
    "This study was supported by The Human Ecology Research Foundation of the Southwest. "
    http://www.aehf.com/articles/A18.htm

  • Heart Attacks Tied To Air Pollution
    Dr. Mercola
    Don't pollute your own air, and the air of untold others, by wearing or using petrochemically
    derived fragrances and pesticides. If your city is pushing pesticides, even if they are telling
    the public that it is OK because its only an herbicide, stand up for cleaner air.-- barb
    http://www.mercola.com/1997/archive/heart_attacks_tied_to_air_pollution.htm

  • Heart attacks 'triggered by air pollution'
    By Roger Dobson and Severin Carrell; 27 April 2003
    "Small rises in urban air pollution can trigger an increased number of potentially
    fatal heart attacks, an international study has discovered. "
    Folks, petrochemically derived fragrances and pesticides are known air pollutants! -- barb
    http://millennium-debate.org/suntel27ap033.htm

  • Profile of Patients with Chemical Injury and Sensitivity
    By Grace Ziem1 and James McTamney2
    Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol 105; supplement 2, March 1997
    http://www.herc.org/news/ehp/ziem.html

  Cards
  Includes electronic greeting cards -- barb
  
  • 123Greetings - Free cards
    http://www74.123greetings.com/

  • ASL (American Sign Language) e-cards
    http://www.illustrationbydesign.com/card/send2.htm
    
    
  • Blue Mountain Arts (e-cards)
    http://www1.bluemountain.com/index.html
    
    
  • Care2.com E-cards
    Care2.com is located in Menlo Park, CA, right in the heart of Silicon Valley.
    http://www.care2.com/send/categories

  • Hallmark's e-cards
    
  • Stella Marrs
    Note cards and post cards
    http://www.stellamarrs.com/index.pl?area=postcards

  • Syracuse Cultrual Workers
    Site of "How to Build Community" cards and poster
    http://www.syrculturalworkers.org/

• Care2
  "The #1 Environmental Network for Healthy Living and a Healthy Planet"
  You'll find not only a wide range of info on our environment, but gems like this:
  DAILY QUACK UP! Q: How do you stop a skunk from smelling? A: You hold his nose!
  I can't get close enough to some perfume abusers ... if I could, maybe I could use this trick to
  keep them from "smelling!" -- barb
  http://www.care2.com/
  • Care2.com E-cards
    Care2.com is located in Menlo Park, CA, right in the heart of Silicon Valley.
    http://www.care2.com/send/categories

  • Green Pages
    http://www.care2.com/greenpages/directory/

  • Healthy Living
    http://www.care2.com/healthyliving/

  • Safe Decaf, and Why to Choose Shade
    Grown Coffee More Go Organic! Solutions
    by Annie Berthold-Bond, Care2.com Producer, Green Living Channels
    " You can help protect migratory birds' winter home habitat by buying coffee made from
    shade-grown beans."
    http://www.care2.com/channels/solutions/consumer_guides/413

  Care for Kids (Pesticide Safety)
  "Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our children." -- Jane Seymour
  http://www.careforkidsnow.org/

  The Carey Brothers -- On the House
  http://www.broadcast.com/shows/onthehouse/tips/february00.html
  
  CaringBridge.com
  http://www.caringbridge.org/

  CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME CREATES NEW PROBLEMS FOR EMPLOYERS (CTS)
  January 1995
  (It could as easily be MCS -- barb)<BR>

  http://www.lgu.com/em50.htm
  
  
  Carpets
  EHN does not endorse any product or service, and none is intended or implied.
  We bring you this information as a service.
  
  Also see EHN's page on Flooring
  ehnlinx/f.htm#Flooring

  Green carpets coming to Sacramento! -- barb

  Greener standards loom for carpets
  More rec ycled fiber is sought in state offices. By Andrew McIntosh -- Bee Staff Writer Published 12:01 am PDT Tuesday, June 13, 2006; Story appeared in Business section, Page D1
  At long last. Now greener carpets are not necessarily safe for the already chemiclly injured, but
  it is an important step in the right direction. Time we all start demanding safer carpets for
  those areas where carpets are deemed necessary by others. -- barb
  http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/environment/story/14267198p-15078949c.html

  • A Building Owner's Guide to Carpet Selection
    http://www.facilitiesnet.com/NS/NS3b96e.html
    
    
  • Advanced Adhesive Technology, Inc.
    Look for "low odor." -- barb
    http://www.aatglue.com/productdescriptions_carpet.html

  • Alameda County Waste Management Authority
    Sustainable Building Materials Database - Product Report -- CARAPETING
    Following is an old page and has been replaced in this site's new format.
    The site now has frames . . . and a search feature, so search for CARPET and you'll get a link to Green Materials and a click on it will take you to a frame that is titled: Product Information for Alternative Building Materials featured in the Resource-full Showcase.
    Scroll down to Flooring and visit those links. -- barb
    http://www.stopwaste.org/

    http://web.archive.org/web/20001101173719/http://www.stopwaste.org/materials/carpet.html

    
    

  • AllerCareÅ Dust Mite Carpet Powder and Dust Mite Allergen Spray Recalled
    "Racine, WI (SafetyAlerts) - SC Johnson has today initiated a recall
    of AllerCareÅ Dust Mite Carpet Powder and AllerCareÅ Dust Mite
    Allergen Spray because some consumers, particularly those with
    severe allergies and asthma, have reported reactions related to the
    level of fragrance in the products. "
    http://www.recalls.net/recall/p/00/allercare.htm

  • Anderson Labs of West Hartford, Vermont
    http://www.andersonlaboratories.com/
    
    
    • Carpets - Toxic emissions from carpets.
      Rosalind Anderson Ph.D.
      Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (1995) 5: 375-386.
      http://www.andersonlaboratories.com/alweb23g.htm

  • Baking soda: Cleans carpets, helps get the odor out of some new carpets.
    MCS Barbie's Mom's (and Barbie's) Cleaning and Household Tips
    (Or Vinegar Is Versatile!)
    humor/Barbetip.htm#CARPET

  • Bare Floors Are Far Safer, Less Toxic Than Carpets
    By Tania Branigan The Guardian
    Health Research
    http://www.healthresearchbooks.com/articles/floor.htm

  • CARPET CLEANERS NETWORK HOME PAGE
    How to choose a carpet cleaner? How to avoid a bait & switch carpet cleaner?
    http://www.carpetsaver.org/carpetcleaninrip.htm

  • Carpet Cleaning
    
    • Modeling of Exposure to Carpet-Cleaning s
      Preceding Irritant-Induced Asthma in One Patient
      Richard M. Lynch; Department of Urban Studies and Community Health, Rutgers University,
      New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
      
      Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 108, Number 9, September 2000
      http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2000/108p911-913lynch/abstract.html

    • Carpet outgassing tips . . . NO guarantees implied!
      MCS Barbie's Mom's (and Barbie's) Cleaning and Household Tips
      (Or Vinegar Is Versatile!)
      humor/Barbetip.htm#CARPET

    • Spring Fresh Carpet Cleaning
      San Francisco Bay Area
      R. Jacobs has clients who live with MCS
      He will clean carpets and about any surface with steam. He also kills mold with steam, but
      hastened to add that steam does not get rid of the mold stain. Jacobs does not use scents.
      Website is under construction (3/02).
      Call 510.887.1719 and leave message as to best time to return your call.
      Other numbers: 510.303.8954 and a 24-hr. info hotline at 510.783.0145.
      I have talked with Mr. Jacobs, I have not used his services. -- barb

  • Carpet & Rug Institute
    http://www.carpet-rug.com/
    

    " For carpet and rug questions,
    please call 1-800-882-8846 or
    send an email to carpet@gcigroup.com"

    
    
    
    • "Green Label" Testing Programs
      http://www.carpet-rug.com/drill_down_2.cfm?cftoken=86997952&cfid=49852&page=8&sub=4&requesttimeout=350
    
    
    
  • Carpeting
    Environmental Home Center, Seattle
    http://www.environmentalhomecenter.com/shop.mv?CatCode=10270_CARPETNG

  • Carpeting, Indoor Air Quality, and the Environment from
    Environmental Building News
    http://www.buildinggreen.com/features/crpt/carpets.html
    
    
  • Carpets blamed for asthma
    BBC News: Tuesday, 11 July, 2000, 11:17 GMT 12:17 UK
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_828000/828622.stm

  • Carpets in Schools?
    Citizens for A Safe Learning Environment (CASLE)
    For many years a quick, quiet, and inexpensive solution to school flooring needs has
    been to install carpeting. Years later we are coming to unexpected realizations. We are
    seeing that the side effects from this solution include some significant health
    consequences. Then, for that added twist, research has determined that the short term
    cost savings are just that - short term.
    http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Education/CASLE/carpet.html

  • Cindy Duehring's Toxic Carpeting
    http://www.holisticmed.com/carpet/

  • Environmental Building News
    Carpeting, Indoor Air Quality, and the Environment
    http://www.buildinggreen.com/features/crpt/carpets.html

  • Environmental Home Web Site and Resource Guide from Environmental Home Center
    http://www.enviresource.com/pages/about.htm
    
    
    • Flooring and floor covering
      http://www.enviresource.com/pages/floor.htm
      
      
  • Environmentally Responsible Carpet Choices
    Recycled-content carpet and backing, recycling old carpet, and carpet leasing
    Produced by Sonya Capek, National Parks Service - Pacific West Region (Updated: October, 2000)
    http://www.metrokc.gov/procure/green/carpet.htm

  • Environmentally Responsible Carpet Choices Recycled-content carpet and backing, recycling old carpet, and carpet leasing
    http://www.nps.gov/sustain/spop/carpet.htm

  • Family Organics
    Natural Wool Carpet . . .
    http://www.organic-cotton-clothes.com/natural-carpet.html

  • Healthy Flooring Network
    http://www.healthyflooring.org/alternatives.html

  • Healthy Homes from a CFS and MCS Perspective
    by an anonymous woman with CFS/CFIDS; February 1996
    Use your browser's find comand to get to "carpet." -- barb
    http://www.immuneweb.org/articles/building.html

  • Healthy House 1997 -- American Lung Association
    http://www.alaw.org/healthyhouse97/hhfeatur.html

  • Indoor Air Quality and New Carpet
    U. Minnesota, Extension Service
    http://www.extension.umn.edu/info-u/environment/BD653.html

  • Keeping Your Carpet Beautiful
    Helpful Tips on Increasing the Longevity of Your Carpeting
    ABC's Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson
    http://abcnews.go.com/onair/GoodMorningAmerica/gma000314_cleancarpet_feature.html

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

  • Low VOC carpet
    Discussion on GreenBuilding list
    http://solstice.crest.org/sustainable/greenbuilding-list-archive/9803/msg00445.html

  • Mohawk Carpet Corp.
    Mohawk Carpet Corp. carpets carry the Carpet and Rug Institute label signifying
    certification under the CRI indoor air quality carpet testing program.
    Remember that's industry, but some folks with minor reactions can handle the rugs that carry
    the Green&White tag. Let your nose guide you. -- barb
    http://www.cmwcarpetco.com/aladdin.htm

  • Nature's Carpet
    Nature's Carpet is a series of 100% natural, biodegradable and ultra-low toxicity
    floorcoverings for your health and comfort.
    http://www.naturescarpet.com/
    • Information and articles about Chemical Sensitivity and Environmental Illness
      Click on "Related Links" from their home page. -- barb
      http://www.naturescarpet.com/

    • Products
      http://www.naturescarpet.com/products/index.html

  • Nomad Rugs
    3775 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
    tel: 415-401-8833 / fax: 415-401-8855
    … open Mon-Sat 11-6 and Sun 12-5 …
    info@nomadrugs.com
    http://nomadrugs.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?

  • NS Allergy & Environmental Health Association
    The Guide to Less Toxic Products
    http://www.lesstoxicguide.ca/
    Carpets
    http://www.lesstoxicguide.ca/index.asp?fetch=household#carp
    • RESEARCH AND ADMIN. FACILITY
      ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF MATERIALS
      ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; SECTION 01120; RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N. C.
      http://www.epa.gov/rtp/new-bldg/environmental/s_01120.htm

    • Tile vs. Broadloom: The Indoor Air Quality Issue
      http://www.millikencarpet.com/Commercial/modular.html#indoorair

    • Toxic Carpeting by Cindy Duehring
      http://www.holisticmed.com/carpet/

    
    -- end carpet --
    
    
  
  
  Rachel Carson Council
  
  http://members.aol.com/rccouncil/ourpage/rcc_page.htm
  
  
  • Basic Guide to Pesticides: Their Characteristics and Hazards
    http://members.aol.com/rccouncil/ourpage/samples.htm#gloss
    
    
  • Organochlorine (Chlorinated hydrocarbons)
    http://members.aol.com/rccouncil/ourpage/samples.htm#chlorine
    
    
  • Pyrethroids
    http://members.aol.com/rccouncil/ourpage/samples.htm#pyrethroid
    
  
  
  CAS Abstract Services
  http://info.cas.org/welcome.html
  
  
  • MARPAT - Substances Claimed in Patents
    http://info.cas.org/CASFILES/marpat.html
  
  
  Cassandra Project, The
  "To raise public awareness and alert Public Sector organizations of potential Y2K related
  health and safety risks, and interruption of basic and essential services ..."
  http://cassandraproject.org/home.html
  
  
  • Avoiding Toxins in Your Food and Water Storage
    By Amy Marsh, President, EHN
    http://cassandraproject.org/chems.htm
  
  
  Cassini (Saturn space probe with plutonium cargo)
  
  • Cassini lawsuit
    http://www.afn.org/~fcpj/space/cassini/lawsuit/
    
    
  • REAL Stop Cassini web site -- accept no imitations!
    http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/cassini.htm
    
    
  • Saturn Cassini - Huygen's Titan
    http://www.exosci.com/probes/cassini/
    
    
  • STOP CASSINI HOME PAGE - NASA flies in the face of reason...
    http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/index.htm
    
    
  • STOP CASSINI NEWSLETTERS - Table of Contents
    http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/nltrs/index.htm
  
  
  Cats
  Claremont Wilkie is tired of being a "red herring." She is a cat, renowned for her "biting
  sarcasm." Claremont has about had it with the medical industry and its flacks
  who'd far prefer to blame illnesses on cats, cockroaches and dust mites without once
  giving thought to the toxin s in all of the personal care and household cleaning and
  maintenance products. The chemicals that adversely affect the people in any household also
  adversely affect the health of their fabulous pets with whom they share their home ... and
  planet Earth. -- barb
  
  
• Cat Faeries, the first Internet shopping site for cats...
  http://www.catfaeries.com/
  
  
  • About Us
    http://www.catfaeries.com/about.html
    
    
  • Articles
    http://www.catfaeries.com/articles.html

• Litters . . . only suggestions!
  
  • Cat Country Organic
    "The odor control of this litter is exceptional with no chemicals or perfumes used."
    3/27/01 - Claremont and her mommy like this litter, but just learned of the one recommended by Gwen -- barb
    http://www.mtnmeadowspet.com/prod01.html

  • Critter Country Organic
    "A small animal, reptile, snake, and all critter bedding/substrate."

  • WORLD'S BEST CAT LITTER - recommended by Gwen
    http://www.worldsbestcatlitter.com/
    
    
  
  
  CATs (Californians for Alternatives to Toxics)
  "[CATs] is dedicated to preventing harm caused by the unwise use of toxic
  chemicals in the environment, particularly pesticides. To achieve this goal,
  CATs serves as a clearinghouse for information and strategic action.
  Our focus is on problems that occur in Northern California
  and actions that benefit people around the world."
  http://www.alternatives2toxics.org/
  • Wine Grapes & Pesticides: Sonoma and Napa Counties
    If you drink wine and beer: BUY ORGANIC! Use your search engine to find sites for
    "organic wine" or ask your local wine merchant to stock organic wine and beer. -- barb
    http://www.alternatives2toxics.org/main.htm
    • Toxic Pesticides: What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us
      http://www.alternatives2toxics.org/toxicpesticides.htm

    
    
  
  
  CEFCA (pronounced "Kef-Ka")
  Chronic Fatigue & Immune Dysfunction Syndrome,
  Environmental Illness,
  Fibromyalgia,
  Candida, and
  Allergies (Food and Multiple Sensitivities).
  http://www2.interaccess.com/montage/cefca/

  CEI (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
  "The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a pro-market, public policy group
  committed to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government.
  Founded in 1984 by Fred L. Smith, Jr., CEI emphasizes the marketing and
  implementation of classical liberal ideals.

  " CEI utilizes a five-point management approach to affecting public policy: analysis,
  education, coalition building, advocacy and litigation. Its purpose is to advance the
  free-market agenda, believing limited government and competition best serve the
  public interest.

  "A non-profit, tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
  Code, CEI relies entirely on donations from corporations, foundations, and private
  individuals with an interest in restoring individual liberties and economic freedom. All
  contributions are tax deductible."
  
  http://www.cei.org/
  
  

  • Annual Report
    Read the whole thing, but page 2 is worth viewing on screen. Just don't read it
    if your blood pressure is high!
    
    Go into thier homepage, click on "About CEI" at the top of their screen, then click on
    their Annual Report, which is on then on the left. It will download, if you have
    "Acrobat Reader" (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html/),
    as it is a PDF file. -- barb
    
    
  
  
  Cellphones or cell phones -- See EHN's EMF/EFM
  ehnlinx/e.htm#EMF
  
  Celsius to Fahrenheit / Fahrenheit to Celsius Converter
  Zoran.net
  http://www.zoran.net/olu/convert_cf.asp
  
  Center

• Center for Biological Diversity
  "... Combining conservation biology with litigation, policy advocacy, and an innovative
  strategic vision, the Center for Biological Diversity is working to secure a future for
  animals and plants hovering on the brink of extinction, for the wilderness they need
  to survive, and by extension for the spiritual welfare of generations to come. ..."
  There's lots going on here. Would it were there was a race to save MCSers! -- barb
  http://www.biologicaldiversity.org
  • Biodiversity Activist
    http://actionnetwork.org/BIODIVERSITY/home.html

  • Bush Plan to Roll Back Dunes Conservation Faces Broad Challenge 12 groups,
    local citizens target BLM off-road plan that would harm wildlife & air quality
    NEWS RELEASE: for immediate release Wednesday, July 2, 2003
    "... 'The administration is continuing its pattern of ignoring environmental laws when those
    laws inconvenience Mr. Bush¼s friends. They make decisions that invite lawsuits, then
    accuse citizens of being litigious.' said Karen Schambach, Director of California Public
    Employees for Environmental Responsibility. 'And despite the administration's
    rhetoric about local decisions, this was decided in Washington. BLM staff in
    California are simply the fall guys.' ..."
    http://www.sw-center.org/swcbd/press/dunes7-7-03.htm

  • Deserts
    http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/Programs/deserts/

  • Programs and Eco-Regions
    http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/programs/index.html

  • The Race Against Extinction
    http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/species/index.HTML

• Center for Children's Health and the Environment
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  As of July 8, 2002, none of their fact sheets reflect roles played by synthetic scents.
  I've written to them, suggesting they explore EHN's site. Let's see what happens. -- barb
  http://www.childenvironment.org
  • Position Papers
    http://www.childenvironment.org/position.htm

• Center for Empirical Medicine
  The Center for Empirical Medicine is a publishing organization that brings to light
  issues central to the public's health. Its research includes the philosophy and history of
  medicine, 'natural' or integrative medicine, and its mission is dedicated to the public's
  right to objective information.
  Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D.
  http://www.empiricaltherapies.com/
  • Dr. Harris L. Coulter
    http://www.empiricaltherapies.com/coulter.html

  • Cancer Immunotherapy
    http://www.empiricaltherapies.com/cancertherapy.html

  • Miscarriage
    http://www.empiricaltherapies.com/miscarriage.html

• Center for Environmental Health
  http://www.cehca.org/
  • Projects
    http://www.cehca.org/projects.htm

  Center For Ethics and Toxics (CETOS)
  http://www.cetos.org/
  
  
  • Cancer/Cosmetics
    http://www.cetos.org/geneinteg.html

  • An Oily Mess
    "You may not know our name, but we're an integral part of your everyday life" -
    Rhone-Poulenc Inc.
    "In 1995, the very first genetically engineered cotton crop entered our food supply. ... "
    http://www.cetos.org/articles/urgent.html

  • Political Perspective on the Use of Pesticides
    "Council members, esteemed guests and citizens of Fort Bragg. My name
    is Marc Lappe'. I direct the not for profit Center for Ethics and Toxics in
    Gualala. I am extremely grateful for this opportunity to talk with you
    about public and private concerns over the use of pesticides. First, I
    would like to clear up a misconception some persons have about
    'opposition to pesticides.' People like myself who oppose the unbridled
    use of chemical controls for pests and unwanted vegetation are sometimes
    thought to be espousing a radical, leftist line. In my own case, nothing
    could be further from the truth. When it comes to pesticides, I am an
    arch conservative. Let me explain.

    "As I understand it, a convervative holds the view that personal freedom
    is the most important value. This freedom plays out with the right for
    self-protection, use of ones own private property, and the right to be
    free of governmental intrusion. These views start from the principle
    of liberty. The strongest supporter of liberty was the philosopher,
    John Stuart Mill. His view was that the greatest liberty is that liberty
    which is consistent with liberty for all. The only restriction on liberty
    is that its operation not harm others. Mill also argued forcibly against
    anyone giving up his own freedoms. I believe that the present pattern
    of laissez faire pesticide use in our County jeopardizes each of these
    principles of liberty.

    "At first glance, permitting individuals to use whatever pesticides they
    want on their own private property would seem to be totally consistent
    with the conervative agenda. Use of chemical killers under ones own
    control is akin to the right to bear arms. But like having a gun, using
    a pesticide is a tightly circumscribed "right". I am free to carry a gun
    as long as it is not concealed, it is used in self-defense or form
    lawful taking of game, and it doesn't harm anyone. The myth is, like
    guns, pesticides never killed anyone--only people who use them
    recklessly or with disregard of the safety of others. Using
    pesticides--any pesticide--is very much akin to carrying a loaded gun.

    "There is virtually no one who can use pesticides in the environment
    and respect Mill's definition of liberty. No one can use pesticides on the
    scale presently intended by most in the timber industry and secondarily
    by wine grape growers without risk of harm to others. That harm is both
    direct--to users and unsuspecting persons downstream or downwind of
    "private land" operations--and indirect, through the contamination of
    the environment generally. No one can use a pesticide on a large scale
    and absolutely guarantee that it will not escape their own property.
    Pesticides do not respect fences or any other artificial boundary.
    Pesticide drift, percolation into the water supply and build up in
    tissues of fish, fowl or wildlife is the rule not the exception.
    Pesticides are intended to increase personal liberty by freeing us from
    unwanted agricultural pests, fungal blights or structural pests. But if
    that freedom is at the risk of compromising the freedom of others, it is
    an empty freedom. ..."

    10/22/02 -- Currently not available online, but soon to again be available.. -- barb
    
    

  • A Toxics Bill of Rights
    "Preamble:
    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. Human activities to assure these ends increasingly rely on
    technical and chemical innovations to enhance the manufacture and
    production of products and agricultural commodities. While many of
    these innovations are deemed necessary for people to achieve comfort,
    enhanced productivity or increased goods and products, most carry
    with them high costs in terms of secondary toxic effects and resultant
    risks to health. A case in point is the mass contamination of aquifers
    and water service systems in the United States with chlorinated solvents
    used to assist the manufacture of metal and machinery parts in the
    aircraft, industrial, and commercial sectors throughout the last century. ..."
    10/22/02 -- Currently not available online, but soon to again be available. -- barb
    
    
  
  
  Center for Environmental Citizenship
  http://www.envirocitizen.org/index.html
  • National Environmental Wire for Students
    http://www.envirocitizen.org/news/index.asp

• Center for Health Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
  http://www.chej.org/
  • Blitzing the PTA - The Chemical Industry and the TNRCC Lay Siege to Texas Moms
    Everyone's Backyard - Organizing Toolbox
    http://www.chej.org/ORGBOX/PTA.html

  • Love Canal
    http://www.chej.org/lcindex.html

  • The Rising Rates of Health Problems - Is There a Toxic Connection?
    Everyone's Backyard - Science Features http://www.chej.org/SF/ToxicConnection.html

  • STOP DIOXIN EXPOSURE
    http://www.chej.org/Dioindex.html

• Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  Suggested safe substitutions for personal products
  Allan D. Lieberman, M.D. - Medical Director
  The center is fragrance-FREE! -- barb
  " The Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine specializes in treating
  patients with environmentally triggered health problems, including injuries sustained
  as a result of exposure to chemicals in the environment. The Center, in operation
  since 1978, is located off South Carolina Interstate 26 in North Charleston. Our 6,500
  square foot Center consists of medical, laboratory, and testing facilities. It was
  designed and is run to be as safe an environment for our patients as possible ‚ it is a
  strictly smoke and scent free facility, utilizing specialized air filtration throughout the
  building, water filtration systems, non-toxic cleaning products, and completely non-toxic
  pest control. "
  You MUST register as a patient to use this site. -- barb
  http://www.coem.com/

  
  
  

• Center for Regulatory Effectiveness (CRE)
  http://www.thecre.com/
  • Regulatory Advocacy
    "...CRE's mode of operation is to undertake work on a range of issues for a number of
    firms, so the Center does not represent per se any particular member of an industry.
    CRE is supported by a number of trade associations and private firms, usually in the
    form of a monthly contribution to support the Center's activities. Although CRE
    participants who contribute to the Center are given an opportunity to designate a
    particular issue to be addressed by the Center and to review CRE's work product prior
    to its dissemination, they do not control either the content or the papers that the
    Center ultimately files in a given regulatory proceeding. Consequently, such work
    product represents the views of CRE and does not necessarily represent the position
    of all of CRE's contributors. ..."
    http://www.thecre.com/regreview/index.html
• Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology (CROET)
  
  • Peter S. Spencer, PhD, FRCPath - CROET Director & Senior Scientist
    http://www.ohsu.edu/croet/spencer.html
    
    
  • CROET research programs
    address issues that affect Oregon's workforce. Overall, we are examining
    four major themes or questions: What are the effects of low-level chemical
    exposures? How can we prevent and repair damage to the nervous system?
    How do "nature" (genes) and "nurture" (workplace and other environments)
    interact to cause disease and injury in the workplace? What is the impact
    of drug use and abuse in the workplace?
    http://www.ohsu.edu/croet/research.html
    • Experimental and Clinical Neurotoxicology, 2nd Edition
      Oxford University Press, New York
      edited by Peter S. Spencer and Herbert Schaumburg
      includes list: A-Z OF NEUROTOXIC S/MIXTURES
      http://www.ohsu.edu/croet/neurotoxtexttoc.html
    
    
    
  • Links to Environmental Health and Pesticide Information Resources
    http://www.ohsu.edu/croet/enviro.html
    
    
  • Home Page: CROET - Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU)
    http://www.ohsu.edu/croet/index.html
  
  
  The Center for Resource Solutions (CRS),
  "... based in San Francisco, brings together diverse interests to implement
  practical resource solutions. Our national and international programs promote
  clean and efficient energy use, encourage sustainable economic growth, and
  help preserve the environment for present and future generations.
  http://www.resource-solutions.org/programs.htm

• Centers for Independent Living (CIL) -- US and Canada
  

  For an extensive list, you may wish to visit ILUSA
  

  United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Canada, the
  United Kingdom, Brazil, European countries, and Africa
  http://www.ilusa.com/links/ilcenters.htm

  
  

  
  
  • Alaska State Independent Living Council
    http://www.labor.state.ak.us/silc/index.htm
    
    
  • California
    
    • Berkeley, California, USA
      http://www.cilberkeley.org/
      
      
      • Berkeley's Message Board
        http://www.cilberkeley.org/board.htm
        
        
      • California ILCs
        Thanks to Berkeley's CIL
        http://www.cilberkeley.org/ca-ilc.htm
        
        
      
      
      
    • California Foundation for Independent Living Centers
      http://www.cfilc.org/
      
      
    • California State Independent Living Council (SILC)
      http://www.calsilc.org/
      
      
    • Independent Living Resource Center
      649 Mission Street
      San Francisco, CA 94105
      Ph: (415) 543-6222
      TDD: (415) 543-6698
      Fax: (415) 543-6318
      "Independence and Choice for people with Disabilities"
      http://www.ilrcsf.org/index.htm

  • Canada
    
    • ILRC - Independent Living Resource Centre
      201-294 Portage Ave
      Winnipeg, MB
      R3C 0B9
      E:Mail ilrcwpg@pangea.ca
      204-947-0194/TTY
      http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/crm/lifestyl/advoc/ilrc.html

  • Florida Independent Living Council
    http://www.flailc.org/
    
    
  • Idaho State Independent Living Council (SILC)
    http://www2.state.id.us/silc/index.htm
    
    
  • Illinois, Statewide Independent Living Council of
    http://www.fgi.net/~silc/
    
    
  • Marin (California) Center for Independent Living
    http://4.21.247.58/index.html
    
    
  • MARYLAND STATEWIDE INDEPENDENT-LIVING COUNCIL
    http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/26excom/html/22ind.html
    
    
  • MISSOURI STATEWIDE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL
    http://www.dese.state.mo.us/divvocrehab/Silc.htm
    
    National Council on Independent Living
    http://www.ncil.org
    • Position on Reauthorization
      Note: Look for info regarding MCS on this page. -- barb
      http://www.ncil.org/rehab03.htm

  • New Horizons Independent Living Center, Inc. (Arizona)
    http://www.northlink.com/~nhilc/

  • New York State Independent Living Council, Inc.
    http://www.nysilc.org/
    
    
  • Oklahoma Statewide Independent Living Council
    http://www.nchrtm.okstate.edu/silc/
    
    
  • Paraquad, Inc. - Independence for people with disabilities
    St. Louis, MO
    This site is quite a find for those living with MCS! -- barb
    http://www.paraquad.org/map.html
    • Fragrance-Free Environments and No -Fragrance Spaces--
      Not just a personal preference, but a Vital Matter of Health
      (The author, Roberta K. Rigsby, Ph.D., has kindly given permission for you to reproduce this
      without seeking reprint permission, but do check it closely for some typos. -- barb 02/02/02)
      http://www.paraquad.org/nosmell.htm

    • Frequently Asked Questions About Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
      (Watch for a few typos ...) -- barb
      http://www.paraquad.org/faqmcs.htm

    • Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
      Pardon me, but is that your perfume I'm smelling?
      " ... No one would argue the fact that carbon monoxide, an odorless and colorless gas,
      is highly poisonous. But change the subject to MCS, and many of those same people will
      still affirm that 'if I can't see it, it doesn't exist.' ..."
      http://www.paraquad.org/mcs.htm
      
    
    
    
  • Texas State Independent Living Council
    http://texsilc.home.texas.net/
    
  -- end CILs --

http://www.ccid.org

Central Texas Poison Center - CTPC
The CTPC is a 24-hour poison emergency treatment and information resource for
health care professionals and the public in Central Texas.
http://swinfo.tamu.edu/poison/ctpc.htm

Ceramic Heaters

• AdobeAir Ceramic Heaters
  http://www.adobeair.com/heaters/ceramic.htm

• Ceramic Heaters
  http://www.sshcinc.com/ceramic_heaters.htm

CESAR CHAVEZ

• Address to Pacific Lutheran University, March 1989
  http://www.ufw.org/fast.html
  
  
• Si Se Puede! Cesar E. Chavez and His Legacy
  http://clnet.ucr.edu/research/chavez/

• The Story of Cesar Chavez
  http://www.ufw.org/cecstory.htm

• Viva Cesar E. Chavez!
  http://www.sfsu.edu/~cecipp/cesar_chavez/chavezhome.htm

MCS Links at ehnlinx/mcs.htm

I suggest that everyone living with ADD, Autism, CIFDS, CFS, GWS, FM, ME , MCS, et al.,
make a concerted effort to keep one's life as free from synthetic fertilizers, flavors, fragrances,
pesticides and other consumer products with high-emitting VOCs (volatile organic
compounds).

In public venues, you have a right to breathe -- believe it or not! -- so ask for your public entity to
institute fragrance-free programs for personal care and to use fragrance-free cleaning and
maintenance products, and promote true Integrated Pest Management practices (least toxic
pesticides used only as a last resort!). There is nothing in fragrance-free policies that
says you don't have to be clean. Clean is not defined by a concoction of petrochemicals
to create a scent, except by the fragrance industry in its ads.

Use the information provided in EHN's petition of the US Food and Drug Administration,
Docket 99P-1340 to document your requests for cleaner air. The Analysis Summary was
performed by a reputable laboratory . . . those chemicals were discovered. And, please write the FDA.
Analysis Summary: http://www.ehnca.org/FDApetition/analysis.htm

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

Abstracts of Papers Presented at The Bi-Annual Research Conference of the
American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (AACFS)
October 10-11, 1998 -- Cambridge, Massachusetts
http://www.cfids-me.org/aacfs/poster1.html

American Journal of Medicine: Symposium on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
http://www.cais.net/cfs-news/ajm98.htm

An Effective Natural Therapy for AIDS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), and
Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome (CFIDS)
Jonathan Campbell Health Consultant; Natural Therapies for Chronic Illness
http://www.cqs.com/aidstherapy.htm

Brainstorms
The Newsletter of the Greensboro CFS/FMS/MCS Support Group
http://www.ncchem.com/brainsto.htm

California U.S.A CFIDS (CFS) and FMS Resources
Information for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Patients
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~msimon/cacfssg.html

CDC - Complete Text of Revised Case Definition
Fukuda et al, Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 121, December 15, 1994, pp. 953-959.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/cfs/defined/defined3.htm

The Carousel Network and Melissa Kaplan
Chronic Neuroimmune Diseases
CFS/FM/MCS Information and Support for Sonoma County
P.O.B. 366
Fulton, CA 95439-0366
"The inability of a doctor to diagnose an emerging disease is evidence of a deficiency of
the doctor rather than lack of cooperation in the patient."
http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/index.html

Welcome To CEFCA (pronounced "Kef-Ka")
For Information Contact:
CEFCA Support Group,
P.O.Box 341533, Los Angeles, CA 90034

E-Mail: CEFCASupport@aol.com
Please be patient with e-mail response
http://www.montagestudio.com/cefca/

CFIDS Association of America
Advocacy, Information, Research and Encouragement for the CFIDS Community

PO Box 220398
Charlotte NC 28222-0398
Voice Mail: 800/442-3437
Fax: 704/365-9755
General E-mail: cfids@cfids.org
http://www.cfids.org



• Diagnosis: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
  http://www.cfids.org/about-cfids/multiple-chemical-sensitivities.asp

• One to One - A sharing of tips, strategies, ideas and helpful thoughts from
  one person with CFIDS to another
  " Don't use cologne or fragrances of any kind." Julia [near page bottom] Look at labels. If the product has the word fragrance, look for another, safer product.
  'Vote' with your pocket book . . . you'll improve the air for all, including yourself. -- barb
  http://www.cfids.org/archives/1999/1999-3-onetoone.asp

• Readers¼ Forum - Correspondence with the Chronicle editor
  "Think before you spray
  "Our homes and public spaces must become fragrance-free. Chemicals are making
  many of us sick. I can no longer go to church, enjoy a concert or visit the doctor because
  there is always someone overscented. But I am not alone. I have CFIDS, fibromyalgia
  (FM) and multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) and am a support group leader. What
  all MCS patients have in common is the inability to handle fragrances. So be
  considerate of others; you may be forcing them into isolation." Delaine
  http://www.cfids.org/archives/2000/2000-4-rf.asp

CFIDS/FM/ME Information Collection, Melissa Kaplan's
http://www.sonic.net/melissk/cfs_main.html


• CFS Far More Common than AIDS, HIV Infection or Lung Cancer
  http://www.sonic.net/melissk/cfsfreq1.html
  
  
• CFIDS Support (Links)
  http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~msimon/cacfssg.html
  
  
• Management of Sensitivities in CFIDS
  by Jim LeRoy; Reprinted from The CFIDS Chronicle, 10(2):45-51, Spring 1997
  http://www.sonic.net/daltons/melissa/cfs_mcs.html
  
  
• Safe, Unscented Products
  List provided by
  Sheila Bastien, Ph.D.
  Neuropsychologist
  2126 Los Angeles Street
  Berkeley, CA 94707
  http://www.sonic.net/daltons/melissa/unscent.html


CFIDS/M.E./FMS Information Webring!

http://www.cfids-me.org/cfidsring.html




• CFIDS TREATMENT OPTIONS
  by Charles Lapp, MD
  http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/4225/treatment.html
  • NEURALLY MEDIATED HYPOTENSION (NMH)
    Affects those living with CFS or FMS, and others.
    http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/4225/neurally.html

  CFS-NEWS - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Electronic Newsletter
  Roger Burns, Washington, D.C.
  http://www.cfs-news.org/cfs-news.htm

  CFS Nutrition
  http://www.cfsn.com/
  
  CFSupport
  http://www.geocities.com/cfsnova/index.html
  
  

  • Newsletter
    http://www.geocities.com/cfsnova/newsletter.html

  Children and CFIDS

  http://www.bluecrab.org/health/sickids/sickids.htm
  
  
  Chronic Fatigue
  
  http://members.tripod.com/~hemochromatose/onderwerpen/24
  
  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Building Energy with Nutrients
  http://www.mothernature.com/Library/bookshelf/Books/10/47.cfm

  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia
  with Diana KarolNagy
  http://chronicfatigue.about.com/

  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic encephalomyelitis
  http://www.cfs-news.org/

  • Latest News about CFS / M.E.
    http://www.cfs-news.org/news.htm

  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Electronic Newslette
    http://www.cfs-news.org/cfs-news.htm

  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Newsletter CFIDS/ME
  See Post #2 -- " 'No Other Illness Like This One': Dr. Bell Finds Dramatic
  Abnormalities in CFIDS by Joan S. Livingston, About.com columnist "
  http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind0008&L=cfs-news&F=&S=&P=54

  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support Page
  

  http://jvm.com/health/links.htm
  
  ChronicIllNet, Dr. Howard Urnovitz, Berkeley, California
  
  ChronicIllNet Lobby
  (Autoimmune Disease, Cancer, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Syndrome and more)
  
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome --
    http://www.chronicillnet.org/CFS/
    
    
  • Study Previewed at Houston Conference Provides New Interpretation on
    How Chronic Diseases Progress
    Findings Suggest Link Between Retrotransposons, Chronic Inflammation and
    Contaminated Vaccines
    http://www.chronicillnet.org/news/releases/release_7.html#RTFToC1
    
    
  • Study Previewed at Houston Conference Provides New Interpretation on
    How Chronic Diseases Progress
    Findings Suggest Link Between Retrotransposons, Chronic Inflammation and Contaminated Vaccines
    http://www.chronicillnet.org/news/releases/release_7.html#RTFToC1
    
    
  
  
  
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and NADH
    by June Butlin
    http://www.positivehealth.com/permit/Articles/CFS/but50.htm

    [Chronic Fatigue Syndrome] M.E. & FM Manual
    http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1544/

  • Chronic Syndrome Support Association (CSSA)
    http://www.cssa-inc.org/links.htm
    • Patient Resources
      http://www.cssa-inc.org/patient_resources.htm

  • Co-Cure
    "The name 'Co-Cure' stands for'Co-operate and Communicate for a Cure.'
    The mailing list has been established with the goal of
    furthering co-operative efforts towards finding the
    cure for the illness commonly referred to as Chronic
    Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Fibromyalgia (FM)."
    http://www.co-cure.org/
    
    
    • Articles
      http://www.co-cure.org/ccinfo.htm

    • California Chapter's Good Doctor List
      http://www.co-cure.org/USA_CA.htm

  • FM & CFS Advocacy
    http://fmcfsadvocacy.healthyplace2.com/index.html
    • CFS & FM Coping Tips
      http://fmcfsadvocacy.healthyplace2.com/about.html

    • Fighting Mad E-mails
      http://fmcfsadvocacy.healthyplace2.com/custom3.html

  • Human Ecology Action League, Inc. (HEAL)
    http://members.aol.com/healnatnl/index.html
    
  • IMMUNE (Cyndi Norman)
    
    http://www.best.com/~immune/
    (Archives are available via FTP and the WWW)
    
    Cyndi's site was the very first site I found dealing with a
    variety of chronic illnesses. In the early days, any searches
    were futile, and then like magic, IMMUNE came into being. Now,
    we all know it was through Cyndi's hard work, but at the time it
    seemed like magic to me. --barb
    
    Immune Support
    "The Largest CFS & FM Site on the Web! "
    http://www.immunesupport.com/
    
    
    • Legal issues: Disability
      http://www.immunesupport.com/library/powersearch.cfm?cat=disability

    • New Theory on Explanations for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
      by Dr. Martin L. Pall; 02-13-2001
      http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm?ID=2976

    • Toxic Causes of CFS: Part One ‚ Recognizing the Symptoms
      by Sarah Myhill, M.D.
      ImmuneSupport.com
      http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm?ID=2942

    • Toxic Causes of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Part Two - Treatment Options
      by Sarah Myhill, M.D.
      ImmuneSupport.com; 01-16-2001
      Includes info on MCS. -- barb
      http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm?id=2945

    
    The Invisible Illness -- ME CFIDS CFS FM
    AN INDEPENDENT SITE - TORONTO BASED , WELCOME
    http://cfs-fm.tripod.com/

    Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:
    Multidisciplinary Innovations in
    Research, Theory & Clinical Practice
    http://www.cfs-news.org/jcfs.htm

    Kaplan's (Melissa ) CFIDS/FM/MCS Information Collection
    http://www.sonic.net/melissk/cfsinfo.html
    
    

    • Injury Awareness Project (Ribbons)
      http://www.sonic.net/melissk/cheminj.html
      
      
    
    Keep Hope Alive
    Serving the community of people living with health problems such as: HIV, HHV-6,
    AIDS, nutrition, immune system, chronic fatigue
    http://www.execpc.com/~keephope/keephope.html

    Listening to CFIDS: Works by PWCs and others who care
    

    http://wwcoco.com/cfids/
    
    
    McGill, Dr. Ruth
    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Aired: October 14, 1996; KRON (NBC, Ch. 4, San Francisco Bay Area)
    http://www.kron.com/nc4/healthbeat/stories/cfs.html
    
    OR
    
    • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
      Dr. Ruth McGill; Aired: October 14, 1996; KRON (NBC, Ch. 4, San Francisco Bay Area)
      http://www.wavyworld.com/~melissk/kron_cfs.html
      
      
    Myalgic Encephalopathy (ME)
    http://www.cfids-me.org/mpwc/shalala.html
    
    The National CFIDS Foundation
    Read their petition . . . -- barb
    http://www.ncf-net.org/
    
    
    • Neurotoxin Discovered in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
      "Chronic ciguatera poisoning has already been suggested as a scientific
      model for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)," stated Dr. Hokama.
      How did so many CFIDS patients eat the Ciguatera poisoned fish? -- barb
      http://www.NCF-NET.org/library/neurotoxinPR.html

    Prof. Garth Nicolson
    Mycoplasma Infections,Gulf War Syndrome
    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Chemical Sensitivities
    Rheumatoid Arthritis.
    Or any one of three or so dozen other
    "Chronic Illnesses".
    Such as Reiters Syndrome and Mental Illnesses.
    http://www.angelfire.com/in/formation1/

    Open Your Mind to the Possibilities: L.A. Conference Explores the CFIDS Brain (1993)
    By Vicki Carpman
    http://community-care.oaktree.co.uk/docs/me0025.txt
    
    

  • R.E.S.C.I.N.D. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4277/index.html
    • May 12 Action Information for 2002
      "For the past eight years, May 12th has been designated as International Awareness Day
      for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases (CIND).Ý..."
      http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4277/may12.html

    Richard's Pages on EI/MCS/CFS
    
    http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7015
    
    
    • Environmental Illness and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - A Brief Introduction
      by Richard Smallfield; Copyright © Richard Smallfield 1997. All rights reserved.
      http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7015/ei-cfs.html
      
      
    Robert's Web Site, Welcome to
    (pesticide poisoning)
    
    http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Bath/5236/index.html
    
    
    • Are You being slowly poisoned by Granular Dursban?
      http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Bath/5236/Html/Page1mystory.html
    
    
    
  SSR 99-2p: POLICY INTERPRETATION RULING
  TITLES II AND XVI: EVALUATING CASES INVOLVING
  CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME (CFS)
  http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/di/01/SSR99-02-di-01.html
  
  STRONGE VS. LONDON LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
  
  Canadian Court Rules That Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is An Illness.
  http://www.easynet.on.ca/~stronge/
  
  
  Tell your CFIDS story
  
  http://www.alaska.net/~gandk/cfidsstories.html
  
  UK ME-Web, Home of the
  
  http://www.community-care.org.uk/
  
  
  Links
  http://www.community-care.org.uk/ME/
  
  WECAN (Worldwide Electronic CFIDS/M.E. Action Network)
  http://www.community-care.org.uk/wecan/
  
  What is CFIDS/CFS/ME?
  
  http://wwcoco.com/cfids/what.html

Charter on Industrial Hazards and Human Rights

"Judgment of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal on Human Rights and
Industrial Hazards; Bhopal, India, October 1992.

[This is a lengthy document. Please visit this site to gain its full impact. --barb]

Preamble
http://www.eastend.com.au/~goble/Acta/charter.htm#T2

"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. [emphasis mine --bw]

" 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

• Allergy and MCS Help
  Dr. Cathcart
  (Includes an MCS chat page.)
  http://www.mall-net.com/mcs/
  
  
• Chat - short-hand form of communication.
  http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/chat.html

• CIIN'S Chat Room
  http://www.ciin.org/chat.htm

• FAQs for Chatters
  http://www.parachat.com/faq/chatters.htm

• Homeowner's Soot Damage Discussion Board!
  http://candlesoot.com/

• MCS Chat Rooms MCS Referral and Resources
  http://www.mcsrr.org/chatrooms.html

• MCS Kids Chat
  "NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR REAL NAME, ADDRESS OR TELEPHONE NUMBER OVER THE NET.......
  If someone says something that doesn't seem right to you tell your parents."
  http://www.main.nc.us/pace/chat.htm

• The Smile Dictionary
  http://oz.uc.edu/~solkode/smileys.html
• V”lkommen till MCS Onlines Chat!
  http://www.metallica.se/medlem/chat.htm

• Articles
  A page of CHEC's links to articles on fragrances, insulation, what to do with old computers, renovations, wood, etc., etc., etc. Do visit this site! -- barb
  http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/virtualhouse/search-results-articles.asp?Main_Room_Bedroom=1

• Chemicals
  http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/chemicals/chemicals.asp

• The Cleaning Blues
  by Aisha Ikramuddin
  Adapted with permission from The Green Guide #53 http://www.thegreenguide.com
  Alternatives given. -- barb
  http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=156

• The Cosmetic Mask
  by Kristin Ebbert
  Adapted with permission from The Green Guide #31 http://www.thegreenguide.com
  http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=190

• The Cosmetic Mask: Resources and Alternatives
  by Kristin Ebbert
  Adapted with permission from The Green Guide #31 http://www.thegreenguide.com
  http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=323

• The Cosmetics Mask: The Stink on Fragrance
  by Kristin Ebbert
  Adapted with permission from The Green Guide #31 http://www.thegreenguide.com
  http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=319

• Fragrance in Perfumes and Cosmetics
  by Pamela Lundquist, Children's Health Environmental Coalition
  http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=509

• How Safe is Your Home?
  Missing is a question regarding the use of fragrance products! Synthetic scents
  are NOT BENIGN products. They are known as "common indoor air polluters." See
  NIEHS and its "Common Indoor Air Polluters," which includes fragrances and pesticides. -- barb
  http://www.checnet.org/how_safe/index.shtml

• Green Cemetery, Mill Valley, California
  Forever Fernwood
  I came to learn of Forever Fernwood through EHN member, Elna Widell, who died
  April 10, 2005 and chose this cemetery as her final resting place.

  You can visit Forever Fernwood online. Choose from Flash, HTML or Espanol. -- barb
  http://www.foreverfernwood.com/

  • Natural Burials-- in HTML
    http://www.foreverfernwood.com/html/ecology/natural_burial.html

  • No chemicals, no elaborate coffins, no carved markers-
    just eternal rest in a peaceful nature preserve
    BY JILL KRAMER; Pacific Sun; December 15, 2004
    "... People can now bury their dead at Forever Fernwood in an eco-friendly manner,
    using biodegradable materials. They can also preserve the burial site in perpetuity by
    purchasing a conservation easement planted with a tree, native grass or wildflowers. Of
    course, the old cemetery is still there, and customers can opt for a traditional burial
    there, but the new part will be free of all of the usual stone and bronze markers. It
    will look like-and will be-a nature preserve. A global positioning system will record
    the placement of each burial site. Visitors will be able to walk the grounds with Palm
    Pilot-sized devices that will guide them to the grave and screen a video tribute, if
    one has been made. ..."
    http://www.pacificsun.com/greenburial.html

  • And, from Undernews . . .
    http://prorev.com/2004/06/fernwood-foreverfirst-organic-cemetary.htm

    now via The Wayback Machine
    http://web.archive.org/web/20050226001332/http://prorev.com/2004/06/fernwood-foreverfirst-organic-cemetary.htm

    • Green Burials
      http://www.greenburials.org/
      Green Burials, FAQ
      This page includes a list of green burial cemeteries for your consideration. -- barb
      
    
    Chemical Info
    

    Folks, I know there's more to "chemical" than just synthetic fragrances and pesticides, but I ask that when you think chemical, think "petrochemical in fragrances." You have a right to know what you are putting on your body and the bodies of your children. You are also putting fragrance chemicals into the air for all to breathe despite their underlying health concerns -- including pregnancy. AND, you are putting fragrance chemicals in the water, which are affecting our fish and wildlife, and other people downstream, as these chemicals are not washed out in wastewater management practices. If you don't wear synthetic scents in public venues, you and people around you can more fully enjoy the fragrances from Mother Nature, you may find your allergies less active, aromas of food and beverage will be heightened, and you won't have to worry about bioaccumulation of these rather superfluous toxic chemicals in your body, the bodies of your children, or the environment. You may well like "YOUR fragrances," but YOU are worthy of safe products, and we who don't use synthetic scents are worthy of cleaner air. -- barb "FDA Authority Over Cosmetics" The FDA does not regulate the fragrance industry. The FDA does not even enforce its requirement for warning labels on cosmetics (fragrances) released to market without adequate testing. -- barb http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-206.html Assurances by the fragrance industry of product safety ehnlinx/a.htm#Assurances EHN's FDA Petition, Docket Number 99P-1340 - May 1999 FDA to require warning on fragrances released to market without adequate testing. This petition comes with analyses so you can see the chemical findings for yourself. -- barb FDApetition/bkgrinfo.htm Not Too Pretty - July 10, 2002 Phthalates in fragrances found in independent study -- just as shown in FDA Petition, above http://www.NotTooPretty.com

    AACASH EXPORTS - Perfumery Chemicals
    http://www.aacash.com/perfume.htm

    Aldrich(Free access to MSDS, you just have to register)
    

    https://www.sigma-aldrich.com/SAWS.nsf/Pages/Aldrich?EditDocument
    
    About Aldrich
    https://www.sigma-aldrich.com/SAWS.nsf/Pages/al_index?OpenDocument

    All you can eat: Environmental Working Group
    Your only source for instant information on pesticides
    and other toxic chemicals in your food
    http://www.foodnews.org/
    
    

    • An Apple A Day
      http://www.foodnews.org/appleaday.html
      
      
    • EWG's New York Times Full Page Ad
      http://www.foodnews.org/nytimes.html
      
      
    • Kids' Menu: Ages 1 through 5
      http://www.foodnews.org/kidscorner.html
      
      
    American Chemical Council's Phthalates
    http://www.phthalates.org/
    • Phthalates in our lives/home
      http://www.phthalates.org/inourlives/your_home.html

    • Phthalates and your health / Personal care products
      "...When perfume fragrances are dissolved in either DEP or DMP, they evaporate
      more slowly, making the scent linger longer. ..."
      http://www.phthalates.org/yourhealth/personal_care.html

    • American Chemical Society
      http://www.acs.org/portal/Chemistry
      • Chemical & Engineering News
        June 23, 1997
        http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/cenear/970623/by.html

      • CHEMICAL EXPOSURE
        Data prompt scientists to track phthalates' pathways in humans
        by CHERYL HOGUE
        http://pubs.acs.org/cen/topstory/7913/7913notw3.html

      • Flavors and fragrances: The chemistry challenges
        A truly multidisciplinary approach is needed to provide consumers with the performance
        they expect while continuing to meet the regulatory challenges of the industry.
        William L. Schreiber; Lewis G. Scharpf, Jr.; Ira Katz
        http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/chemtech/97/mar/flav.html

      • Pheromones: The Chemistry of Attraction?
        http://www.acs.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=feature_ent.html&id=99792fbc6bf411d6ef944fd8fe800100

      • Screening and testing for endocrine disrupters
        Science lags behind U.S. legislative demands.
        http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/ac/98/aug/endo.html

      • WHAT'S THAT STUFF? NEW CAR SMELL
        VOCs account for the characteristic 'newness'
        May 20, 2002; Volume 80, Number 20; CENEAR 80 20 p. 45; ISSN 0009-2347
        http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/8020stuff.html

      • Wondernet
        I can hardly believe my eyes!!!!!!!! Those very small molecules also go deep into the lungs.
        Excuse me, with all the scents worn and used during the last 20 years, doesn't anyone else see the
        correlation between our modern ubiquitous scents and rising rates of asthma and other chronic
        diseases? And now, kids are supposed to put perfume in a cup and smell it! HORRORS. -- barb
        "The Science Behind This Month's Activities
        In 'The Nose Knows', children have an opportunity to think about how the sense of
        smell really works. By placing perfume in a cup and smelling, children should get the
        idea that something from the perfume must have gotten into the air. For the purposes
        of these children's activities, we call these molecules "smell molecules". As a result of
        the activity, children should understand that the molecules need to get into the air
        and then into the nose in order to smell them. Children should be able to smell the
        perfume through a napkin and possibly, even through plastic wrap. This will suggest
        that the smell molecules are very small.
        http://chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=wondernetdisplay.html&DOC=wondernet%5Cgrownups%5Cgu_smell.html

      ANNALS ONLINE
      of the New York Academy of Sciences
      You can view abstracts or full text from a lengthy list. -- barb
      
      • Chemical Intolerance
        http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/collection/chemintol
        • The Compelling Anomaly of Chemical Intolerance
          By Claudia S. Miller
          http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/full/933/1/1

      Beautalent Commerce Centre - Chemicals
      http://www.tradezone.com/tradesites/beau11.html
      • Petroleum
        http://www.tradezone.com/tradesites/beau11.html#A

      • Chemical Products
        http://www.tradezone.com/tradesites/beau11.html#B

      • Chemical Fertilizers & Pesticides
        http://www.tradezone.com/tradesites/beau11.html#C

      • Essence and Cosmetics
        http://www.tradezone.com/tradesites/beau11.html#D

      BFA: Natural Flavouring Substances
      
      http://www.bfa-lab.com/anglais/data.htm
      
      
      BF Goodrich
      KALAMA PRODUCTS AND THEIR USES
      Click on the little MSDS buttons, note health hazard info, plus the following statement. -- barb
      "NOTE: Health studies have shown that exposures to chemicals pose potential
      health risks which may vary from person to person. Therefore exposures to liquids,
      vapors, mists , or fumes should be minimized. [Emphasis added.]"
      http://kci-freedom.com/kciprod.htm
      
      
      Other MSDS, note health hazard info
      
      • A look at other MSDS for Kalama Products chemicals
        ehnlinx/cbfgmsds.htm

      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

      Carcinogens - Known or suspected
      The Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory Oxford University
      Chemical and Other Safety Information
      http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/carcinogens.html

      ChemFinder.com
      http://www.chemfinder.com/
      
      

      • Synonyms of chemicals
        http://www.chemfinder.com/result.asp
      
      
      Chemical Abstract Services (CAS )
      http://info.cas.org/welcome.html
      
      
      • MARPAT - Substances Claimed in Patents
        http://info.cas.org/CASFILES/marpat.html
      
      
      Chemical Awareness
      "Background information:
      A European NGO-campaign on chemicals policy

      By Allan Andersen, The Danish Society for the Conservation of Nature,
      Christian Ege Joergensen, The Danish Ecological Council, and Poul Wendel Jessen,
      The Danish Consumer Council.

      "The whole framework of directives, which make up EU chemicals policy, is now under
      revision. It is crucial that environmental and consumer NGO¼s become actively
      involved in formulating the chemicals policy of the future. To strengthen NGO efforts,
      we ask all NGO¼s and other interested parties to support the Chemicals Campaign
      outlined below.

      "During the most recent 50 years of industrial development, the production of chemicals
      has increased 3-400 times on a global scale. Of the 10-15 million substances known
      today, at least 100,000 chemical substances can be found individually as industrially
      manufactured-marketed substances.

      "We give names to and know chemical formulas of practically all of these substances.
      However, even though we have dramatically increased our knowledge of the biological
      significance of chemical substances, we know very little - or often nothing at all - about
      the biological effects of an overwhelming majority of the man-made chemicals. . . . "
      http://www.fbr.dk/chemaware/about/index.html

      Newsletter Index
      http://www.fbr.dk/chemaware/newslet/index.html
      • All I wanted for Christmas was a Toy without poisonous Substances!
        http://www.chemical-awareness.com/news.php?nid=10&aid=242

      • Fragrance Allergy in Consumers
        "[F]ragrance allergy is a big and increasing problem among the consumers. "
        This article doesn't contain info on phthalates, but I thought it helpful to add here. -- barb
        http://www.chemical-awareness.com/news.php?nid=10&aid=245

      • Fragrance allergy - a major problem
        Why are consumers (including children) not protected?
        By Heidi Soested, The Danish Consumer Council
        Includes some fragrance allergy stats from late '80s and early to mid '90s. -- barb
        http://www.fbr.dk/chemaware/newslet/issue02/article8.html

      • More Than Skin Deep
        By Betty Bridges, RN; Issue # 12, December 1st 2000
        http://www.fbr.dk/chemaware/newslet/issue12/fulltext.html#article15

      • NGO Policies on Chemicals By Allan Andersen, the Danish Society for the Conservation of Nature
        "Several European NGOs have published their own policies or strategies on chemicals. A
        few are mentioned below, and main conclusions or recommendations are cited. We
        hope that this brief summary may inspire other NGOs in their work with chemicals issues. ..."
        http://www.fbr.dk/chemaware/newslet/issue02/fulltext.html#article3

      • 20,000 chemicals deemed dangerous
        Issue # 11, October 23rd 2000
        "By means of sophisticated computer technology the Danish Environmental Agency
        has now identified adverse environmental effects or health hazards in 20,000 chemical
        substances previously not known to be dangerous. Thus the Agency has brought to light
        a major European problem. The industries are prepared to make useful the new
        information.

        "The threat to environment and health presented by chemicals is a lot more far-reaching
        than previously assumed by European authorities. After many years of intensive
        studies the Danish Environmental Agency is soon to publish a list of 20,000 chemical
        substances with undesired effects on environment or health.

        "So far EU has only listed some 5,000 substances as dangerous.

        "The 20,000 substances now assessed by the DK Environmental Agency, using computer
        modelling, were hardly known previously in terms of their harmful effects. . . . "
        http://www.fbr.dk/chemaware/newslet/issue11/article1.html

        Chemical Awareness is published by:
        
        • The Danish Society for the Conservation of Nature
          http://www.dn.dk
          
          
        • European Environmental Bureau (EEB)
          http://www.eeb.org
          
          
        • The Danish Ecological Council
          http://www.ecocouncil.dk
          
          
        • BEUC, the European Consumers' Organisation
          http://www.beuc.org
          
          
        • The Danish Consumer Council
          http://www.fbr.dk
          
          
      Chemical Awareness Schools
      CAS IS A PARTICIPATING MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL TOXICS NETWORK AUSTRALIA
      http://www.spirit.net.au/~rdi/cas/
      Chemical Awareness in Schools is a new national forum on toxic
      chemicals and children's health. We offer support & Information for
      parents who think their children's health might be suffering at school, and
      assistance to schools & childcare centres in the form of safe, workable, non
      toxic alternatives for Cleaning, Maintenance & Pest Control contracts.
      http://www.spirit.net.au/~rdi/cas/noframes.html

      
      Chemical Backgrounder Index
      National Safety Council
      http://www.nsc.org/ehc/ew/chemical.htm
      
      

    • Chemical Body Burden http://www.chemicalbodyburden.org/

    • Chemical Casualty Care Office
      US Army: MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF CHEMICAL CASUALTIES HANDBOOK
      
      http://chemdef.apgea.army.mil/chemcasu/titlepg.htm
      
      
      • Nerve Agents
        http://chemdef.apgea.army.mil/chemcasu/NervAgnt.htm
        
      
      
      
    • Chemical Health & Safety Data, NTP (National Toxicology Program)
      http://ehis.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/docs/chem_hs.html
      
      
    • CHEMICAL INCOMPATIBILITIES
      Laboratory Safety at UAH
      http://www.uah.edu/admin/Fac/oehs/lab.htm

    • Chemical Index -- Chem-Tox
      http://www.chem-tox.com/
      
      
    • Chemical Industry Cover-ups
      With all the cover-ups within the chemical industry, and with all of the chemical industry front
      organizations and with all the chemical industry's out-and-out attacks on people living with
      the various effects of MCS -- chemical injury -- does it surprise me one iota that MCS is not
      recognized? I don't think so! Here's just a sampling of industry cover-ups. -- barb
      
      
      • ASH - Smoking and health
        SH/ Industry conduct/ Tobacco Explained: 1. Smoking and health -- page one of eight.
        " 'A demand for scientific proof is always a formula for inaction and delay and usually
        the first reaction of the guilty äin fact scientific proof has never been, is not and
        should not be the basis for political and legal action'
        An example of (private) candour from a scientist at the tobacco company BAT. (S J Green 1980)"
        Ahhhh, that demand for "scientific proof" -- that is what is demanded of those living with
        MCS, with fragrance sensitization, with adverse effects of breast implants, et al., -- all the while
        the industry flacks and too many folks within our government agencies charged with protecting
        public health are poo-pooing all of the real science we provide. -- barb
        http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/tobexpld1.html

      • Chemical Industry Archives, a project of Environmental Working Group
        http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/
        • Scientific Fact, Industry Fiction
          http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/factfiction/

        • Fact #2: People vary enormously in their reaction to toxic substances
          http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/factfiction/facts/2.asp

        • Fact #4: Cancer rates are up, particularly for cancers that affect the young
          http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/factfiction/facts/4.asp

          Explore this site and check the other facts for yourself. -- barb
          
          

      • Chemical Weapons Working Group (CWWG)
        "Right now the U.S. Army is burning WMDs in Anniston, Alabama, a low-income, minority community
        already heavily poisoned by PCBs, lead and mercury from Monsanto."
        Visit this site and spend a lot of time -- check the map at page bottom. Then DO something. -- barb
        http://www.cwwg.org/
        • CWWG Press Releases Indexed by Subject
          http://www.cwwg.org/prindex.html

        • CWWG Newsletter "Common Sense"
          Published by Kentucky Environmental Foundation
          http://www.cwwg.org/newsletters.html

      • DMOZ Open Directory Project
        Health: Addictions: Substance Abuse: Tobacco: Secondhand Smoke: Industry Actions (50)
        http://dmoz.org/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/Tobacco/Secondhand_Smoke/Industry_Actions/

      • DOW Chemical cover-up memo on breast implants . . .
        http://www.homestead.com/sosalines/DowCoverupDocument.html

      • Environmental Working Group's The Power of Information
        http://www.ewg.org/pressreleases/cia/launch.html
        • Chemical Industry Archives
          a project of EWG
          "Chemical companies say that their products are rigorously
          tested for health and safety, their facilities are safe for
          workers and nearby communities, and their industry is tightly
          regulated. Can we believe their claims?
          
          "Not based on their own internal documents, thousands of
          which we are publishing on this site for the first time. "
          Info will download as PDF files. -- barb
          http://chemicalindustryarchives.org/

        • SECRET CHEMICAL INDUSTRY DOCUMENTS POSTED ONLINE
          WASHINGTON, DC, March 27, 2001 (ENS) - Fifty years of confidential chemical
          company memos, letters, reports and meeting minutes reveal an industry that
          continues to mislead the public about toxic chemical hazards and exposures, an
          environmental research group said today.

          The Environmental Working Group (EWG) launched a website - the "Chemical
          Industry Archives" at http://www.ewg.org - with an initial collection of more
          than 35,000 pages of chemical industry insider documents.
          http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/pfvs/2001I/msg01709.html

      • Fragrance Materials Association
        "Providing the public with safe and wholesome fragrances and fragrance ingredients." http://www.fmafragrance.org/
        Just what toxins and what combinations of toxins are they hiding behind that mendacious
        claim? Perhaps the FMA has no dictionary in which to look up words like SAFE or WHOLESOME.

        Do any governing bodies give a tinker's damn about what the chemical fragrance industry states?
        There seems to be little interest in warning the public of known health adverse events associated
        with the use of fragrances. One does not even have to use scented products to suffer asthma
        and other upper and lower respiratory ailments, migraines and other headaches, neurological
        symptoms, etc. Information is available that clues one in to the fact that rising cancer rates may
        be influeneced by the carcinogens commonly found in fragrances.

        Where are the warnings from our government agencies that are charged with protecting public
        health? Where are are state and federal legsilators for that matter, who could write and pass laws
        for stricter labeling requirements? I can tell you, some legislators can stand for the count
        while others take a hike at the mere presence of industry pressure. And industry pressure there
        is a plenty, from the>very arm that brags of the defeat of California legislation (Aug. 2004) and
        claims its products and their ingredients are "safe and wholesome."

        Who is listening? No one can be too smug about not suffering from perfume poisoning. Your
        time may yet come, and it can hit with a vengence. Are you ready?

        While you read "safe and wholesome" think about the fact that fragrances are found to contain
        chemicals that are known carcinogens, hormone disrupters, irritants (poison to lungs and skin)
        neurotoxins, sensitizers (lungs and skin) and teratogens (capable of adversely affecting developing
        embryos and fetuses). Now, what's that about safe and wholesome products and ingredients? -- barb
        
        

      • In Strictest Confidence -- TOXIC SECRECY
        For years, makers and users of vinyl chloride concealed the terrible truth:
        The chemical can cause cancer
        By JIM MORRIS, ©1998 Houston Chronicle
        http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/vinyl/

      • MTBE
        
        • Big Oil's MTBE Cover-Up
          By Bill Walker, AlterNet; October 10, 2002
          http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14274

        • MTBE Lies I Told You
          An apology by Will Swaim ; Orange County Weekly; 13 June 2003
          http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/Commentary/News/2003/2003-0613-OCW-editorapology.htm

      • Paper trail - Chemical industry documents reveal deceptions
        By Raheem F. Hosseini
        ..."Two organizations, the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) and the California Council for
        Environmental and Economic Balance (CCEEB), shown by documents to be founded
        decades ago to push the chemical industry's agenda, are still active today. ..."
        http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2001-04-12/enviro.asp

      • Poisoned
        The chemical industry would tell you, but then they'd have to kill you.
        ANDREW WILKINS; Memphis Flyer; 4/5/2001
        "From plastics to cleaning products to medicine, nearly every aspect of modern life
        has been touched by the 60-year-old chemical revolution. And according to a recent
        Centers for Disease Control (CDC) study, every American has been contaminated by
        some of these chemicals. ..."
        
        "... Few of the chemicals we assume to be safe are tested or regulated, due primarily
        to the lobbying efforts of the chemical industry through political contributions,
        partisan science, and public relations. ..." [emphasis added]
        How, I ask you, do you get the industry demanded "sound science" out of partisan science? -- barb
        http://www.memphisflyer.com/MFSearch/full_results.asp?xt_from=1&aID=948

      • PR Watch
        http://www.prwatch.org/
        • A Decade of Denial: Chronology of the Mad Cow Cover-Up
          by John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
          http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q1/madcow11.html

        • Beauty and the Breast: How Industry Sold Implants to Women
          by John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
          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
          http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q1/silicone10.html

        • Rendering: the "Invisible Industry" Gets a Green Facelift
          by John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
          http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q1/madcow13.html

        • Science Under Pressure: Dow-Funded Studies Say "No Problem"
          by John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
          http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q1/silicone11.html

      • Trade Secrets
        By Bill Moyers
        http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/index.html

      • Unsafe for Mice or Men
        Article about the Bill Moyers report Trade Secrets.
        Tuesday, March 27, 2001 San Francisco Chronicle
        http://www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/moyerov.htm

        OR: http://www.mindfully.org/Health/Unsafe-Mice-Men.htm

        
        -- back to EHN's Stuff Happens! --
        ehnhompg/stufhaps.htm

      
      Chemical Industries Newsletter
      http://www-cmrc.sri.com/CIN/
      
      
      May-June 1994 Edition
      http://www-cmrc.sri.com/CIN/94/may-jun/home.html
      
      
      • Aroma Chemicals
        http://www-cmrc.sri.com/CIN/94/may-jun/article02.html
        
        
      • Pesticide Industry Overview
        http://www-cmrc.sri.com/CIN/94/may-jun/article09.html
      
      
      
    • Chemical Industry Archives
      a project of EWG
      "Chemical companies say that their products are rigorously
      tested for health and safety, their facilities are safe for
      workers and nearby communities, and their industry is tightly
      regulated. Can we believe their claims?
      
      "Not based on their own internal documents, thousands of
      which we are publishing on this site for the first time. "
      http://chemicalindustryarchives.org/

      Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (CIIT)
      http://www.ciit.org/
      
      

      • Sites of Biological, Chemical, and Environmental Interest
        http://www.ciit.org/WWW/biochem.html
        
        
      • Chemicals Researched by CIIT
        http://www.ciit.org/Chemicals.html
        
        
      • Chemical sensitivity: symptom, syndrome or mechanism for disease?
        (TILT - "toxicant-induced loss of tolerance") By Miller CS
        PubMed
        http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8711750&dopt=Abstract

        
        

      • Endocrine, Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology
        http://www.ciit.org/RESEARCH/endo.html
        
        
      • Neurotoxicology
        http://www.ciit.org/RESEARCH/neur.html
        
        
      • Supporting Companies
        http://www.ciit.org/SUPPC/suppc.html
      
      
    • Chemical Injury
      Also see EHN's pages:    Environmental Injury or Environmental Health
          ehnlinx/e.htm#Environmental

         MCS Links
         ehnlinx/mcs.htm

      • CHEMICAL INJURY
        Allergy, Sensitivity & Environmental Health Association
        Includes info on fragrances. -- barb
        http://www.asehaqld.org.au/chemical_injury_issues_paper.htm
        • CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY: Is there a connection between your chronic medical
          condition and allergy, food intolerance or chemical sensitivity? - A leaflet
          http://www.asehaqld.org.au/chemical_sensitivity_leaflet.htm
          
          
        
        Chemical Injury Awareness Project (Ribbons)
        http://www.sonic.net/melissk/cheminj.html
        
        
        • Melissa Kaplan's CFIDS/FM/MCS Information Collection
          http://www.sonic.net/melissk/cfsinfo.html
        
        
        Chemical Injury Information Network (CIIN)
        Cynthia Wilson and Our Toxic Times
        http://ciin.org/
        • CIIN's 2nd MCS Conference
          October 3 - 5, 2003 Fairfax, VA -- Washington DC area
          October 6, 2003, MCS Education Day
          Lobbying efforts in offices of Congress
          http://www.ehnca.org/events/ciin2mcs.htm

        Chemical Injury Relief Foundation (CIRF)
        http://www.cirf-hub.ca/
        
        
        • CIRF/PEC ‚ Designing Personal Environmental Control
          http://www.cirf-hub.ca/PEC/
          
          
        • CIRF/WELL - Web Environmental Lifeskills Library
          http://www.cirf-hub.ca/WELL/
          
          
        • Eco-eco relations - Why ecology is important to economics
          http://www.cirf-hub.ca/PEC/ecoeco.html

        • Funding
          http://www.cirf-hub.ca/PEC/funding.html

        
        
        
      • Chemical-injury Survivors of Minnesota
        http://www.holoweb.com/survivors/default.htm
        
        
        • TRIBUTES
          http://www.holoweb.com/survivors/tribute.htm
        
        
        
      • CHEMICAL INJURY AND SENSITIVITY
        From the Congressional Record of the United States
        CONGRESSMAN BERNARD SANDERS
        Extension of Remarks to the House of Representatives
        "Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss the issue of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
        as it relates to both our civilian population and our Gulf war veterans. . . . "
        http://members.aol.com/BoycottSBU2000/RepSandersChemicalSensitivity.html

      • Defining Chemical Injury - A Diagnostic Protocol and Profile of Chemically
        Injured Civilians, Industrial Workers and Gulf War -
        Volume 13; Pages 1-16 [ISSN # 8755-5328]
        by G. Heuser, M.D.,Ph.D. , P. Axelrod and S. Heuser, M.A.
        Correspondence to: G. Heuser, M.D., Ph.D.
        28240 W. Agoura Road, Suite #203,
        Agoura Hills, California
        http://www.iicph.org/docs/ipph_Defining_Chemical_Injury.htm

      --
    • Chemical List, High Production Volume
      (from the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, EPA)
      
      http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/chemtest/hpv.htm
      
      Chemical Manipulation of Human Populations
      http://www.trufax.org/menu/chem.html
      
      
      • Pesticide - Herbicide Research
        http://www.trufax.org/menu/pestherb.html
      
      
      Chemical Manufacturers Association
      
      http://www.cmahq.com/
      
      Set us as frames ... seek on CMA site:
      • RESPONSIBLE CAREÆÝ A PUBLIC COMMITMENTÝ
        
        
      • Join your peers at the 2000 Responsible Care Conference, April 30-May 3, 2000,
        at the Wyndham Palace, Orlando, focusing on Connecting for the Future.
        
      • Letter to EPA on Children's Health
        
        
      • Chemical Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) from Fisher
        Check by name or CAS#
        Brought to you by Vermont Safety Information Resources, Inc.
        http://hazard.com/msds/mf/fish/

        1990 Environmental Illness Briefing Paper<
        

      
      
    • Chemical Names and Synonyms
      
      • NIOSH POCKET GUIDE TO CHEMICAL HAZARDS - Online Version
        http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/pgdstart.html
        
        
      • Introduction
        http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/pgintrod.html
        
        
      • INDEX of Chemical Names and Synonyms
        http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0000.html
        
        
      Chemical Profiles
      from Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
      ehnlinx/chemprof.htm

      Also see ATSDR under EHN's Government Links

      Chemical profiles from other sources
      
      

      Glutaraldehyde study
      
      http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/ST-studies/TOX025.html
      
      
      Solvents and their effect on your liver
      
      http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/BSOS/Depts/Cesar/metnet/inhc2.tx2
      
      
      Chemical Reaction
      http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/025chem_weap/two_chems.html
      
      CHEMICAL REACTION SUPPORT GROUP
      CSDA Neighborhood Group in Northern Virginia
      http://members.aol.com/ljavins/chemreact.html
      
      Chemical Sampling Information, OSHA
      
      http://www.osha-slc.gov/OCIS/toc_chemsamp.html
      
      
      Chemical Scorecard -- EDF
      
      http://www.edf.org/links/scorecard/
      
      
      Chemical Sensitivity -- see Multiple Chemical Sensitivity -- subcategories C and M
      (ehnlinx/mcs.htm)
      
      Chemical Sensitivity - It's a Serious Problem More Often Than You Think!!! by Adrienne Buffaloe, MD
      http://www.accessnewage.com/articles/health/chemical.htm
      • Transcript of testimony of Dr. Adrienne Buffaloe on the effects of pesticides
        on people, particularly malathion and pyrethroids based on her own evaluations of her
        patients, before hearings held by a Congressional panel chaired by Congressional
        representative Gerald Ackerman, of Queens NY.
        "... Malathion, the manufacturer's own sheets state what the health effects are.
        There is a note on those data sheets to the doctors informing the doctors that
        Pipanol and Malathion can cause respiratory, cardiac and neurological dysfunction,
        including coma, muscle spasms, labor breathing, frothing of the mouth and nose,
        nausea, vomiting, headache, and weakness. [emphasis added] "

        "...Pyrethrins or Pyrethroids, ... causes severe allergy attacks in sensitive people,
        dermatitis, asthma, rhinitis, anaphylactic reactions, numbness of the lips and tongue,
        sneezing, vomiting, diarrhea, ringing in the ears and restlessness; it can also cause
        convulsions, which is seizures, incoordination, and death from respiratory paralysis.
        "To say that these pesticides are perfectly safe is an outrage. With Resmethrin or
        Pyrethroid, it's particularly problematic, because the first death from a Pyrethroid
        exposure was reported right here in New York City in 1994, just five years before
        the spraying, by the current director of the New York City Poison Center. And that
        article has been given to the legislators, and it is in your packet. This death was as a
        result of a very brief exposure to Pyrethroid. ..." [emphasis added]
        http://www.nospray.org/buffaloe.shtml

      Chemical susceptibility, injury and reactivity:
      mechanisms and measurement, with emphasis on
      developmental and receptor-ligand considerations
      © 2000 by S. Coleman Rowat
      This document takes some time to load ... I have found it works better if I use
      Internet Explore, rather than my preferred browser, NetScape. -- barb
      http://www.rowatworks.com/science/ChemSIR/index.html

      Chemical Synonyms
      http://www.chemfinder.com/result.asp
      
      Chemical Toxicity in Humans (a chart)
      [42 Common Toxic Chemicals and Their Effects, including Where Found in the human
      environment and Toxicity in Humans with chronic and acute effects. 108 references.]
      http://www.rowatworks.com/Science/Tox_Chem_Table.html
      
      Chemical toxicology, carcinogenicity
      Who Publications
      

      http://www.who.int/dsa/cat95/chem5.htm
      
      Environmental Health Criteria Series (chemicals)
      http://www.who.int/dsa/cat97/zehc.htm
      
      
      
      
      Chemical Warfare Expert Reveals...
      What the Government and Food Industry Don't Want You to Know
      
      http://www.yearbooknews.com/html/Hitchcox.html
      
      
      Chemically Sensitive Living (CSL)
      "CSL offers Peer Counseling, Consulting, Research, and Resources"
      
      http://members.aol.com/chseli/
      
      
      Chemicals: DOCUMENTATION FOR IMMEDIATELY DANGEROUS TO LIFE OR
      HEALTH CONCENTRATIONS (IDLHs)
      NIOSH CHEMICAL LISTING AND DOCUMENTATION OF
      REVISED IDLH VALUES (AS OF 3/1/95)
      Questions should be directed to: Heinz Ahlers [NIOSH, Taft
      Laboratories, MS‚C31, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, Ohio
      45226 (513‚533-8407)].
      Folks, check out the "Human Data" on some of these chemicals. -- barb
      http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/idlh/intridl4.html

      Chemicals in the Environment: OPPT Chemical Fact Sheets
      http://www.epa.gov/chemfact/
      
      

      • TRI 1998ÝData Release; released: May 2000
        http://www.epa.gov/tri/tri98/index.htm
        
      
      Chemicals in fragrance products --
      
      • FDA Petition, Docket Number "99P-1340/CP 1"
        
      • 1,560 of the more than 5,000 that are used by the fragrance/flavors industry
        This series of tables is an impressive work in progress -- it will have extensive
        links to better serve your needs for gathering pertinent information. However,
        for some of us, that means it can take a long time to load. If you just want a look
        at the 1,560 chemicals, go into EHN's site, given below.--barb
        http://pw1.netcom.com/~bcb56/1500.htm
        
        Betty Bridges, RN bcb56@ix.netcom.com has graciously
        allowed EHN to upload her unlinked tables of chemicals. -- barb
        bbchem/1500indx.htm
        
        Uses & Safety (from the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Reports)
        http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/use_safety.htm
      
      Chemicals: PIRG's THE TOXICS RIGHT-TO-KNOW CAMPAIGN
      
      http://www.pirg.org/pirg/enviro/toxics/rtk/index.htm
      
      Chemicals, Search by CA# or name or synonym through
      
      Chemicals: Proposition 65 in Plain Language!
      
      http://www.oehha.org/prop65/p65plain.htm
      
      
      CHEMICALS LISTED EFFECTIVE June 15, 1999 AS KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
      TO CAUSE REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY
      
      http://www.oehha.org/prop65/getlist.htm
      
      A quick, online reference of the Prop 65 chemicals
      http://www.oehha.org/prop65/6499lsta.htm
      
      
      Chemicals Sorted by Name
      
      http://ntp-db.niehs.nih.gov/Main_Pages/pub-Structures-list.html
      
      Chemicals: 25 INGREDIENT MYTHS -- Bodycare ingredient myths
      
      Myth #7 -- information on fragrances:
      http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/neat-stuff/ingrmyth.txt
      
      
      Chemicals, The Twenty Most Common ... by Julia Kendall
      
      ehn20.htm
      
      
      Chemicals, Toxic -- Fact Sheets
      http://mail.odsnet.com/TRIFacts/
      
      Chemicals: Toxicology Data Management System (TDMS)
      
      http://ntp-db.niehs.nih.gov/
      
      
      Chemistry
      
      • American Chemical Society
        http://chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry

      • Green Chemistry: Ensuring A Sustainable
        Future whilst Protecting the Environment
        By Mike Lancaster
        RSC Green Chemistry Network, Dept of Chemistry,
        University of York, Heslington, York Y01 5DD
        http://www.ul.ie/~childsp/CinA/Issue58/TOC7_GreenChemistry.htm

      ChemLawn - TruGreen
      
      • The How to Grow It Project
        "Special Chemlawn Warning"
        http://www.dontveter.com/howtogrow/chemlawn.html

      • State of Connecticut Workers' Compensation Commission
        CHARLES MINCK, CLAIMANT-APPELLANT v. TRUEGREEN CHEMLAWN, EMPLOYER and
        RISK ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT, INSURER, RESPONDENT-APPELLEE http://wcc.state.ct.us/crb/2000/4003crb.htm

        Chemlawn Challenges Municipal Bylaw
        http://www.perc.flora.org/PEN/2000-03/chemlawn.html

      The ChemoReception Web
      http://www.icdi.wvu.edu/Others.htm
      
      ChemSense
      CHEMICAL REACTION SUPPORT GROUP
      CSDA Neighborhood Group
      (Chemical Sensitivity Disorders Association is a national group with many members in
      Virginia and Maryland.)
      http://members.aol.com/ljavins/chemreact.html
      

      Chemtech B.V. - International Marketing Company.
      Specialty Chemicals / Pharmaceutical Intermediates.
      Specialty Chemicals includes chemicals used for fragrance and flavor. -- barb
      http://www.chemtechbv.com/products.htm

      • ChemTox
        http://chem-tox.com/
        • Child Mattress Emissions Generate Concern
          http://chem-tox.com/beds/frame-beds.htm

        • Cholecystitis (Gallstone Inflammation) Evidence as an Environmental Disease
          Gallstones and Gallbladder Surgery
          http://chem-tox.com/gallstones/index.htm

        • Cosmetic Use in Pregnancy
          Potential to Cause Learning Disabilities
          Mental Retardation & Behavior Disorders in Children
          http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/pregcosm.htm
          
          
        • Environmental Causes of Infertility and miscarriage
          http://www.chem-tox.com/infertility/default.htm

        • Environmental Causes of Learning Disabilities and child Neurological Disorders: Review of the Research
          http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/learning_disabilities.htm
          
          
        • Environmental Causes of Learning Disabilities - Index
          http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/learning_disabilities.htm#index
          
          
          • Fragrance Exposure Causes Aggression Hyperactivity and Nerve Damage
            Neurotoxicology, Volume 1:221-237, 1979
            http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/perfume.htm
            
            
          • Malathion Medical Research
            Malathion's Real Name is
            Dimethoxy Phosphino Thioyl Thio Butanedioic Acid Diethyl Ester
            http://www.chem-tox.com/malathion/research/index.htm

          • Perfume and Frangrance Exposure During Pregnancy
            Links to Learning Disabilities, ADD and Behavior Disorders
            http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/perfume.htm
            
            

        ChemTracker
        ToxLaw
        http://toxlaw.com/chemtracker/
        
        

      • EnviroReport
        published by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration
        with the Swedish Ministry of the Environment
        Chemicals in every corner of society
        "In the 1950s, world production of chemicals totalled 10 million tonnes. Since then, the
        figure has soared: now, 400 million tonnes are produced every year. The risks are
        difficult to assess, as the properties of most chemicals are unknown. - No.4 Juli 2000
        http://www.environ.se/enviroreport/envirorep4/enviro4_3.htm

        European Environmental Bureau
        http://www.eeb.org/Index.htm

        Fisher Scientific
        
        

        Artwork -- Fisher Collection
        http://www.fishersci.com/aboutus/fcollect.jhtml;$sessionid$XJGZCRYAAAE5MCWIZABAAAA#collection

        How to view MSDS
        http://www.fishersci.com/support/faq_chem.jhtml;$sessionid$XJGZCRYAAAE5MCWIZABAAAA

        Glutaraldehyde
        Also see EHN's page G, Glutaraldehyde
        ehnlinx/g.htm#Glutaraldehyde
        • Glutaraldehyde
          SNFTAAS - SUPPORT NETWORK FOR THE ALDEHYDE AND SOLVENT AFFECTED
          http://ncchem.com/snftaas/aldehydes.htm#Glutaraldehyde

        • CRYING IN THE DARK
          "In the early 1980s, radiographers - the (mostly woman) technicians who take x-rays in
          the nation's hospitals and clinics - began complaining of a range of confusing symptoms.
          Some became so ill they were forced to give up their profession. ..."
          http://ncchem.com/snftaas/crying_in_the_dark.htm

      • Friends of the Earth
        http://www.foe.co.uk/
        • FOE Challenges Chemical Industry
          Friends of the Earth Press Release:December 8, 2000
          http://www.foe.co.uk/pubsinfo/infoteam/pressrel/2000/20001208000124.html

        • Safer Chemicals -
             What are the health threats?
             http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/safer_chemicals/issues/health_threats/

             Cutting the risks
             http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/safer_chemicals/issues/cutting_the_risk/

             Safer Future
             http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/safer_chemicals/issues/safer_future/

             Toxic Ted campaign for safer products
             http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/safer_chemicals/press_for_change/toxic_ted/index.html

        
        
      • National Safety Council (NSC)
        Chemicals
        http://www.crossroads.nsc.org/chemicals.cfm

        Princeton University Environmental Health and Safety
        Laboratory Safety Training Guide
        Health Hazards
        SECTION 1: General Information About Chemical Safety Ý
        http://www.princeton.edu/~ehs/labguide/sec-1a.htm
        

        SNFTAAS - SUPPORT NETWORK FOR THE ALDEHYDE AND SOLVENT AFFECTED
        http://ncchem.com/snftaas/aldehydes.htm

        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
        http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10781879&dopt=Abstract
        

        Chemical Food Additives
        
        Read Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
        by Eric Schlosser
        It contains very interesting information on the chemical flavors and fragrance industry. -- barb
        
        
        

        • BF Goodrich
          KALAMA PRODUCTS AND THEIR USES
          Click on the little MSDS buttons, note health hazard info, plus the following statement. -- barb
          "NOTE: Health studies have shown that exposures to chemicals pose potential
          health risks which may vary from person to person. Therefore exposures to liquids,
          vapors, mists , or fumes should be minimized. [Emphasis added.]"
          http://kci-freedom.com/kciprod.htm
          
          
          Other MSDS, note health hazard info
          
          • A look at other MSDS for Kalama Products chemicals
            ehnlinx/cbfgmsds.htm

        • Dr Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
          Agricultural Research Service
          http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/plants.html
          
          Environmental Working Group'sAll you can eat:
          Your only source for instant information on pesticides
          and other toxic chemicals in your food
          http://www.foodnews.org/
          
          
          • An Apple A Day
            http://www.foodnews.org/appleaday.html
            
            
          • EWG's New York Times Full Page Ad
            http://www.foodnews.org/nytimes.html
            
            
          • Kids' Menu: Ages 1 through 5
            http://www.foodnews.org/kidscorner.html
            
            
        • The FeingoldÆ Association of the United States
          http://www.feingold.org/indexx.html
          
          
        • Mission Possible's pamphlet on Aspartame
          http://www.dorway.com/pamphlet.html
          
          
        Glossary of Hazardous Chemicals
        http://www.lifekind.com/glossary.htm
        
        GLOSSARY: SOME TERMS USED IN TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMICAL SAFETY
        http://www.bio.hw.ac.uk/edintox/glossall.htm
        
        NIOSH POCKET GUIDE TO CHEMICAL HAZARDS
        Introduction
        http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/pgintrod.html
        
        
        INDEX of Chemical Names and Synonyms
        http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0000.html
        
        
        REGISTRY OF TOXIC EFFECTS OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES (RTECS)
        http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/rtecs.html

      • Institute for Environmental Toxicology
        
        • Toxicology Concepts and Information on Specific Chemicals
          
          Michigan State University
          http://www.iet.msu.edu/toxconcepts/toxconcepts.htm
          
          
        • ENTRY AND FATE OF CHEMICALS IN HUMANS
          ABSORPTION, DISTRIBUTION AND FATE
          ". . . Once a chemical is absorbed into the bloodstream, it can have several different
          fates. In many cases, it is rapidly removed from the body through the urine or feces.
          In other situations, it may be stored in various parts of the body, such as fat or bone,
          and remain in the individual for many years. A compound may also lead to a toxic effect
          through interaction with certain organs or tissues in the individual or with other
          compounds in the body. Often, a substance which is absorbed into the body interacts
          with particular body chemicals and is changed into one or more other chemicals. This
          process is called metabolism and the products are called metabolites. Metabolism may
          lead to products which are easier for the body to excrete and so can protect the body
          from possible adverse effects. In other cases, however, the metabolites may be more
          toxic than the original chemical which was absorbed. The variety of products resulting
          from metabolism may have the same possible fates as the original chemical -- storage,
          excretion or toxicity. . . ."
          http://www.iet.msu.edu/toxconcepts/generalconcepts.htm

        • IET News
          http://www.iet.msu.edu/newsletter/newsletter.htm

        Inchem
        http://www.inchem.org/

        More Formaldehyde Facts
        FORMALDEHYDE EFFECTS - "Skin reactions: ...chemical can be both irritating and
        allergy-causing...(EPA). A slight sensation of tiny insects crawling over the eyes, nose
        and pharynx (formication) is felt at 2-3 ppm. (Zurlo N, via OSH, NZ.) Contact with the
        vapour or solution causes skin to become white, rough, hard and anaesthetic due to
        superficial coagulation necrosis. With long exposure, dermatitis and hypersensitivity
        frequently result. "
        http://www.presidiotex.com/aspartame/Facts/Formaldehyde/More_Formaldehyde_Facts/more_formaldehyde_facts.html

        National Toxicology Program:
        Announcement of Intent To Conduct Toxicological Studies of 16 Chemicals
        [Federal Register: January 24, 1995]
        How many more untested chemicals have been added to our environment, our lives? -- barb
        http://www.epa.gov/docs/fedrgstr/EPA-GENERAL/1995/January/Day-24/pr-239.html

        PerfumersWorld The materials of perfumery
        An overview of the main material groups used in perfumery
        Check out that right hand column, folks. -- barb
        http://www.perfumersworld.com/chems/material.htm

        SNFTAAS - SUPPORT NETWORK FOR THE ALDEHYDE AND SOLVENT AFFECTED
        http://ncchem.com/snftaas/aldehydes.htm

        Spectrum http://www.speclab.com

        • Methyl ethyl ketone
          "...COSOLVENT IN PESTICIDE FORMULATIONS FRAGRANCE & FLAVORING AGENT-
          EG, FOR CANDY & IN PERFUMES (Former uses) ..."
          http://www.speclab.com/compound/c78933.htm

        SRI Consulting
        http://ceh.sric.sri.com/
        • Methyl ethyl ketone, CH3COCH2CH3 (also known as MEK or 2-butanone)
          http://ceh.sric.sri.com/Public/Reports/675.5000/Abstract.html

    • TCE (Trichloroethylene)
      
      • ATSDR
        "What is trichloroethylene? (Pronounced try-klor'oh eth'uh-leen)
        "Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a nonflammable, colorless liquid with a somewhat sweet
        odor and a sweet, burning taste. It is used mainly as a solvent to remove grease from
        metal parts, but it is also an ingredient in adhesives, paint removers, typewriter
        correction fluids, and spot removers.
        http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts19.html

      • California Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service (HESIS)
        "TCE is sometimes called by other names, such as trichloroethene, ethylene trichloride,
        or ethinyl trichloride. It is sold under many different brand names, such as Tri-Clene,
        Trielene, Trilene, Trichloran, Trichloren, Algylen, Trimar, Triline, Tri, Trethylene,
        Westrosol, Chlorylen, Gemalgene, and Germalgene.
        "TCE looks like water and has a sweet odor like chloroform. It is mainly used in metal
        degreasing. It is also used as a raw material to make other chemicals, as a cleaner in
        electronics manufacturing, and for all sorts of general solvent purposes such as in paints,
        paint strippers, and adhesives. It has also been used as a low-temperature refrigerant
        and as a grain fumigant, and is still sometimes used in dry cleaning. It is no longer
        commonly used as a medical anesthetic gas. ..." (Ain't that grand?!? -- barb)
        http://www.dhs.cahwnet.gov/ohb/HESIS/tce.htm

      • Mountain View Voice
        http://www.mv-voice.com/
        IF these links don't work, go to http://www.mv-voice.com and search for TCE.
        These are just a few of the many stories covering TCE.-- barb
        
        
        • EPA questions safety of Mountain View air
          More than a decade after they deemed it safe, officials say air in the
          Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman area needs more testing
          By Faiza Hasan; Publication Date: Friday, October 04, 2002
          http://www.mv-voice.com/PAW/paonline/voice/morgue/2002/2002_10_04.mew.html

        • TCE found in military homes, but unhealthy levels may be prevalent outside, too
          By Justin Scheck; Publication Date: Friday, November 22, 2002
          http://www.mv-voice.com/PAW/paonline/voice/morgue/2002/2002_11_22.moffett.html

        • TCE's health risks
          By Faiza Hasan; Publication Date: Friday, November 22, 2002
          "Linked to cancer, lupus, Parkinson's, ... could affect liver, kidneys, endocrine system
          and fetuses ... can be stored in body fat ... may build up if exposure continues ..."
          http://www.mv-voice.com/PAW/paonline/voice/morgue/2002/2002_11_22.tceshealth.html

        • TCE: how residents can be exposed
          By Faiza Hasan; Publication Date: Friday, November 22, 2002
          http://www.mv-voice.com/PAW/paonline/voice/morgue/2002/2002_11_22.expsrrts.html

        
        
    • Women's Environmental Network
      http://www.wen.org.uk/
      • Health
        http://www.wen.org.uk/health/currproj_health.htm
      • Pretty Nasty
        http://www.wen.org.uk/health/prettynasty.htm

    
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    Lisa is a Member of the CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF JOURNALISTS, and
    CANADIAN WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS
    http://www.vrx.net/lisa

    
    Dr. Neil Cherry
    New Zeland-based scientist
    From Eyesore to Cancer Source:
    Do antennas deliver more than we bargained for? Speaking in San Francisco -- FREE -- March 22, 2002, noon
    events/drcherry.htm

    Children/Kids/Students/Teens
    ehnlinx/childstu.htm
    
    

  • Birth Defects and Fetal Basis of Adult Disease
    Children's Environmental Health
    http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/factsheets/ceh/birth.htm

  • Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN)
    (No connection with the Environmental Health Network - EHN, www.ehnca.org)
    http://www.cehn.org/
    • Resource Guide on Children's Environmental Health
      http://www.cehn.org/cehn/resourceguide/rghome.html
      
      
  • Children's Health Environmental Coalition - CHEC -
    
    • How Safe is Your Home?
      Missing is a question regarding the use of fragrance products! Synthetic scents are
      NOT BENIGN products. They are known as "common indoor air
      polluters." See NIEHS and its "Common Indoor Air Polluters," which includes fragrances and pesticides. -- barb
      http://www.checnet.org/how_safe/index.shtml

    
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    Chiropractic
    
    • Ask Dr. Wolff
      http://www.askdrwolff.com/
      • Chiropractic Information
        http://www.askdrwolff.com/chiro.htm

      • Environmental Goods and Services
        Link to fact sheets regarding toxic products found in your home. -- barb
        http://www.askdrwolff.com/equ1.htm

    • Dr.John Baker
      Below are just a few of the articles of mine which have been
      published in Dynamic Chiropractic Magazine
      http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/12/21/15.html

    • ChiroFind.com
      http://www.chiroweb.com/

    • Chiropractic Internet Resources
      Holistic Healing Web Page
      http://www.holisticmed.com/www/chiropractic.html#top

    • Chiropractic Page
      http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~jwiens/chiro2.html
      
      
    • ChiroWeb, website of Dynamic Chiropractic
      http://www.chiroweb.com/
      
      
      • ChiroFind -- Everything you want to
        know about chiropractic and wellness. The perfect starting point for chiropractic
        patients and consumers.
        
        
      • Dynamic Chiropractic Archive Search, Keyword: Drug
        http://www.chiroweb.com/cgi-bin/archives
        
        
      • Ask a Doctor of Chiropractic -- a forum
        http://www.chiroweb.com/cgi-bin/forum/ask.cgi
      
      
      
    • Pacific Chiropractic and Research Center http://www.pacificchiro.com
      
      
      • Breast cancer and early detection (thermography)
        http://www.pacificchiro.com/breast_thermography/breast_thermography.htm

    • You Haven't Tried Everything Until You've Tried Chiropractic
      by by William Cromer, D.C., copyright 1998
      http://graywolfad.com/revisions/page5.html

    CHIEF - Citizens HealthInformation & Education Freedom
    http://www.chiefonline.org/

    Chloramine Conversion -- EBMUD
    

    http://www.ebmud.com/ebmpublic/chloramineQ-A.html
    
    
  • Chlorpyrifos
    Panna report on CQS Health and Environment
    http://www.cqs.com/chlorpyr.htm
    
    
  • The Christie List of Links
    References Related to Health Concerns of Pesticides
    http://www.geocities.com/johnsankey.geo/christielist.html

    
    Chlorine
    
    It's only "anecdotal," but damn, it is true! Several years ago, several people gathered for a
    meeting with Berkeley's Commission on Disability. They met in a Senior Citizens Center. That
    particular evening, one of the custodial crew, cleaned with a load of bleach. Several of us wound
    up with our lungs seared. Only one woman received any recompense from the city . . . to cover
    her emergency room visit as I recall. None of my visits to alternative care were covered by the
    city, nonetheless, I lived with very painful lungs for several weeks as a result. Maybe bleach
    companies wish to assure us that their product is safe and its only the big guys like paper mills
    that pollute, but let me assure you, bleach can cause adverse health effects in "small" quantities
    too . . . and it certainly can be a severe pollutant of the indoor air environment. -- barb
    

    • Chlorine Dioxide Induced Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: MMPI Validity Problems
      http://ericae.net/ericdb/ED386654.htm

    • Chlorine Free Products Association
      http://www.chlorinefreeproducts.org/
      • In A World Of Symbolsä Where Does Accountability Fall?
        http://www.chlorinefreeproducts.org/certification_marks.htm

      • TCF versus ECF: Facts and Fiction of Pulp Production
        http://www.chlorinefreeproducts.org/health_research.htm

      • Facts About Chlorine
        Seventh Generation Inc.
        http://www.seventhgen.com/html/facts_about_chlorine___dioxin.htm

    • Chlorine-Induced Damage Documented by Neurophysiological,
      Neuropsychological, and Pulmonary Testing.
      Author/s: Kaye H. Kilburn; Archives of Environmental Health; Jan, 2000
      http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0907/1_55/61182070/print.jhtml

    • Commonsense winemaking.(Brief Article)
      Author/s: Richard G. Peterson; Wines & Vines; March, 2000
      "Q: The previous winemaker always used a 1% citric acid soluto neutralize excess chlorine after
      sterilizing tanks and equipment. He swears by it but can't tell me why it works or what
      concentration of citric acid is optimum. How do you recommend I do it?..."
      http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m3488/3_81/60904335/print.jhtml

    • Facts About Chlorine
      Seventh Generation's information bulletin
      http://www.seventhgen.com/html/facts_about_chlorine___dioxin.htm

    • Neurobehavioral impairment and symptoms associated with aluminum remelting.
      Author/s: Kaye H. Kilburn; Archives of Environmental Health; Sept-Oct, 1998
      "...The dross is removed by the addition of manganese, chlorine and chrysolite. A sweet
      irritating chemical odor pervades the plant. Some of the black dust from the furnaces
      is caught in a bag house. ..."
      http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0907/n5_v53/21230715/print.jhtml

    • Swimming upstream: new products fight the backyard pool's chlorine addiction.
      (new alternatives to chlorine for disinfecting pools)
      Author/s: Jim Motavalli; E The Environmental Magazine; May-June, 1998
      http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1594/n3_v9/20581509/print.jhtml

    • Water, Water, Everywhere ...(safety of drinking water)
      Author/s: David Schardt; Nutrition Action Healthletter; June, 2000
      http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0813/5_27/62494966/print.jhtml

      -- end Chlorine --

    
    
    Cholesterol
    
    • Alternative-medicine-and-health, llc
      http://alternative-medicine-and-health.com/conditions/heart/heart.htm

      BBC News - Tuesday, 24 August, 2004,
      Blueberries 'lower cholesterol'
      " Blueberries could provide an alternative way to lower cholesterol, according to US
      researchers.
      
      "A compound in the fruits acted as effectively as a commercial drug used to reduce levels
      of the 'bad' form of cholesterol in rodents.
      
      "Although the results are preliminary, the Department of Agriculture team thinks the
      antioxidant ingredient could be developed as a treatment. ..."
      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3591384.stm

    • Questions about cholesterol? -- A PlanetRX.com Staellite Health Channel
      Includes information about common cholesterol-lowering drugs and their effects upon your liver. -- barb
      http://www.cholesterol.com/tools/expert/faq_answers.html
      
      
      • How Can I Keep My Cholesterol from Rising?
        http://www.cholesterol.com/tools/expert/index.html

      • Is High Cholesterol Different for Women?
        http://www.cholesterol.com/tools/expert/expert_odea_02.html

  • CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION
    "Cholinesterase (ko-li-nes-ter-ace) is one of many important enzymes needed for the
    proper functioning of the nervous systems of humans, other vertebrates, and insects.
    Certain chemical classes of pesticides, such as organophosphates (OPs) and carbamates
    (CMs) work against undesirable bugs by interfering with, or 'inhibiting' cholinesterase.
    While the effects of cholinesterase inhibiting products are intended for insect pests,
    these chemicals can also be poisonous, or toxic, to humans in some situations. ... "
    E X T O X N E T -- Extension Toxicology Network
    http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/tibs/cholines.htm

    Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA)
    
    

    • Arsenic and CCA-Treated Wood
      "...Burning:Incineration of CCA wood does not destroy arsenic. It is incredible, but
      a single 12 foot 2 x 6 contains about 27 grams of Arsenic - enough arsenic to kill 250
      adults. Burning CCA wood releases the chemical bond holding Arsenic in the wood,
      and just one Tablespoon of ash from a CCA wood fire contains a lethal dose of
      Arsenic. Worse yet, Arsenic gives no warning: it does not have a specific taste or odor to
      warn you of its presence. No one disputes that the ash from burning CCA wood is
      highly toxic: It is illegal to burn CCA wood in all 50 states. This has serious
      implications for firefighters, cleanup and landfill operations. ..."

      "Direct Contact: In a study conducted by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment
      Station, the authors found that arsenic is released to the child's hand by direct contact
      with arsenic-treated wood. The amount ingested per day was estimated to be about
      7 micrograms per day. This should be compared against an estimated 5 micrograms
      estimated in food and 5 to 100 micrograms (ppb) in drinking water. ..."
      http://www.origen.net/ccawood.html

    • ARSENIC FIELD TEST MAY LEAD TO MISLABELED WELLS
      " WASHINGTON, DC, November 25, 2002 (ENS) - Thousands of people in Bangladesh
      and India may be drinking arsenic contaminated water from wells that are falsely
      labeled safe, warn researchers from Jadavpur University in Calcutta, India. Inaccurate
      arsenic test kits are leading villagers to avoid safe water and drink from unsafe wells in
      countries where untainted water is among the most precious of commodities.
      http://ens-news.com/ens/nov2002/2002-11-25-06.asp

    • Austin Business Journal
      Home Depot faces class-action suit
      by Colin Pope; Austin Business Journal Staff ; Week of July 21, 2003
      " ... sold potentially toxic wood that's used to build decks and playgrounds. ..." http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2003/07/21/story7.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

    • THE CCA PRESSURE TREATED WOOD INFORMATION SITE
      "The government in the United States and Canada is currently reviewing the safety
      of the CCA treated wood. The industry which promised fourteen years ago in the
      States to warn consumers about the dangers and did not, is being given a second
      chance. While children are being contaminated playing on playground equipment
      made from this wood and young people are working their way through school cutting
      this wood in lumber stores unprotected, we are told to trust the industry to police
      itself. Below are links that you can click on and voice your opinion to those in charge.
      They are making decisions about this dangerous product, please help keep our children
      safe. " --Deborah Elaine Barrie
      http://www.noccawood.ca/

    • Canada's Consumer Information - Fact Sheets
      Includes info on CCA . . . and DEET. Expect to find PDF files. -- barb
      http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pmra-arla/english/consum/consum-e.html

    • CCAResearch - Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
      http://www.ccaresearch.org/
      • Generation, Use, Disposal, and Management Options for CCA Treated Wood
        Minutes of Technical Advisory Group Meeting Held March 9, 1998
        "... Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele presented the results and conclusions of the first year study.
        ... A considerable amount of the wood (including CCA treated wood) within this
        waste stream is recycled as process boiler fuel. Current disposal practices for CCA
        treated wood will not be a viable option in the future. ..."
        Now, go back to Arsenic and CCA-Treated Wood, above, and read that! -- barb
        http://www.ccaresearch.org/MINmar998.htm

      • Generation, Use, Disposal, and Management Options for CCA Treated Wood
        Minutes of Technical Advisory Group Meeting Held October 23, 1997
        http://www.ccaresearch.org/MINoct2397.htm

    • Center for Environmental Health
      Treated Wood Industry Stops Using Arsenic!
      Major Victory for CEH and Allies
      http://www.cehca.org/
      • POISONED PLAYGROUNDS: REPORT CITES DANGER OF ARSENIC IN WOOD;
        ADVOCATES PLAN LAWSUIT TO REQUIRE WARNINGS
        CONTACT: Mike Green, CEH, (510) 594-9864
        Bill Walker, EWG, (510) 444-0973
        "...Arsenic, which is injected as a preservative and pesticide into almost all wood used
        outdoors, is an acute poisoning hazard but also a long-term cause of organ and skin
        cancer. Arsenic is banned for all other pesticide uses, but wood treatment is exempt
        from federal pesticide laws. Alternatives to arsenic treatment of wood are readily
        available, and in fact the same companies that sell arsenic-laced wood in the U.S. make
        safer products for the European market. ..."
        http://www.cehca.org/pr052301_ars.htm

    • Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) and Its Use as a Wood Preservative
      http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/citizens/1file.htm
      PESTICIDE ADVISORY PANEL TO REVIEW ISSUES PERTAINING
      TO CHILDREN'S EXPOSURE TO CCA-TREATED WOOD
      Dave Deegan 202-564-7839 / deegan.dave@epa.gov
      http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/b1ab9f485b098972852562e7004dc686/01154e6d9e2a6a1885256ad1005a7e21?OpenDocument

    • Consumer Products Safety Commission
      Questions and Answers [on] CCA-Treated Wood
      Prepared by CPSC Staff; February 2002
      http://www.cpsc.gov/phth/cca.html

    • Copper Chromated Arsenate (CCA) - REV2002-03
      The manufacturers of wood treatment chemicals have agreed to make a transition away
      from the use Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) in treated lumber destined for
      the non-industrial market by December 31, 2003.
      Remember folks, the industry gets to have a withdrawal time . . . Buyer Beware!
      http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pmra-arla/english/pdf/rev/rev2002-03-e.pdf

    • The Danish Environmental Protection Agency
      Ignorance leads to excessive use of toxic timber
      http://www.mst.dk/magazine/issue2/timber/Default.htm

    • Disposal of CCA-Treated Wood
      
      How does one dispose of poisoned wood?
      
      I read: DO NOT BURN. DO NOT CHIP. DO NOT USE AS MULCH.
      I was wondering, What are we supposed to do? I know we are supposed to WEAR "DUST"
      MASK and WEAR GLOVES when working with CCA-treated wood . We also learn that we
      are to SEAL EXISTING structures with non slipery sealant and then reseal every two years.
      We also learn that if we want to dispose of CCA-treated wood that the HOMEOWNER MUST
      CONTACT PROPER local and state authorities. Bully!

      A representative of the City of Berkeley's Toxics Management Division advises, "Best thing to do
      is call landfill operators and ask. Most will not take it. Some will. That has been our
      experience for creosote treated wood as well."
      
      But, then HOW do the "disposers" dispose of this poisoned wood safely? Of course, one always
      hears about expense . . . In the case of CCA-treated wood, it's the expense of lined land fills.
      I'd like to start hearing about the concern for the expense of a too-soon lost life. Or the expense of
      chronic diseases that could have been avoided. The people are paying an unfathomable price.

      Sooner or later we all will have the expense associated with trying to clean up yet another
      poison foisted upon an unsuspecting public. It seems to me that the 1970s mark the
      era of the chemical industry going wild with all sorts of products that could prove
      there was better living through chemistry without concern to what would be the effects
      20 years into the future for the people and our fellow creatures on this planet.
      Whether the topic is CCA-treated wood, pesticides, fertilizers, or synthetic flavors
      and fragrances, phaarmaceuticals . . . or the more recent experiences with water-befouling
      MTBE, we are now left trying to clean up our environment and our bodies.
      Until I learn something better, I'd say line those landfils and protect those
      workers with more than just a dust mask in hopes of avoiding to the extent possible the
      impossible-to-put-a-figure-on expense to the health of the planet, and its creatures.

      The references for my opinion are the links found in this section. This is strictly my own
      opinion and does not reflect that of the EHN board or any of its members.-- barb

      
      

    • BAN CCA.ORG
      "The premier online health resource for consumers of CCA Pressure Treated Wood."
      http://www.bancca.org/
      • Residential wood will no longer be treated with arsenic in 2004
        "April 6 2002 - Canadian manufacturers will voluntarily stop using chromated copper> arsenate (CCA) by December 31st, 2003, for wood destined for the residential market. Their agreement concluded with Health Canada was announced by the
        Ministry¼s Pesticides Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) last Wednesday.
        It is identical to the one announced in the United States last Feb. 12. ..."
        http://www.bancca.org/CCA_Editorials/Canadabanarticle.html?newsid=3759057&BRD=1642&PAG=461&dept_id=10299&rfi=6
      • Special Report: Treated Wood's Legacy: A Trail of Tears
        (BANCCA.ORG: 9/11/02)
        http://www.bancca.org/CCA_Victims/CCA_victims.htm

    • Environment Canada Strategic Options Process Treater/
      Manufacturers Steering Committee
      Safe Handling Information for CCA Treated Wood - Reuse and Disposal . . .
      Do not burn, do not chip,
      dispose according to your local regulations. -- barb
      http://www.ccasafetyinfo.ca/consumer_safety_information_sheet.htm
      "Wear dust mask, goves ..."
      
    • Environmental Protection Agency
      "How should you dispose of CCA-treated wood?
      "Homeowners should never burn CCA-treated wood or use it as compost or mulch.
      CCA-treated wood can be disposed of with regular municipal trash (i.e., municipal solid
      waste, not yard waste). Homeowners should contact the appropriate state and local
      agencies for further guidance on the disposal of CCA-treated wood."
      http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/citizens/cca_qa.htm#bkmrk3

    • EWG - Environmental Working Group
      http://www.ewg.org/
      • Poisonwood Rivals
        "The dangers of touching arsenic treated wood -- Zoos know it's not safe for animals,
        but Home Depot and Lowe's continue to sell arsenic-laced lumber to American families.
        Our national sampling program found dangerous levels of arsenic on wood from
        stores in 13 metropolitan areas. November, 2001 "
        http://www.ewg.org/reports/poisonwoodrivals/

      • Healthy Building Network
        CCA Page of Links
        http://www.healthybuilding.net/arsenic_wood.html

      • Lumber Exposes Prompt Phaseout by Rebecca Watson UPdate Summer 2002
        "When a profitable multi-million dollar industry voluntarily phases out its product
        from public use, there must be a reason. In the case of pressure treated lumber the
        reason, according to manufacturers, was "market pressure." And the reason for the
        market pressure is arsenic and its threat to human health. ..."
        http://www.environmentalhealth.ca/summer02lumber.html

      • New Hampshire DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
        Health Department Reissues Safety Guidelines for CCA-Treated WoodOffice
        of Community and Public Health; Published Date: 02/13/2002
        http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/DHHS/PIO/LIBRARY/Press+Release/Safety-Guidelines-CCA-Treated-Wood+.htm

      • Poison Wood
        Waste Age Special Report
        http://poisonwood.wasteage.com/
        • Good Wood Gone Bad
          by Patricia-Anne Tom
          Poison Wood, Aug 9 2001
          "The effects of arsenic leaching from CCA-treated wood are creating
          very real concerns for the waste industry. ..."
          http://poisonwood.wasteage.com/ar/waste_good_wood_gone/index.htm

      • Poisoned Playgrounds
        "Arsenic in Pressure-treated Wood -- If the U.S. EPA keeps its promise to lower
        permissible levels of arsenic in drinking water, it will not be able to protect the nation's
        children from arsenic unless it regulates a more pervasive source of arsenic, pressure-
        treated wood. May, 2001 "
        http://www.ewg.org/reports/poisonedplaygrounds/

    • Preservedwood.com
      AMERICAN WOOD PRESERVERS INSTITUTE
      The industry's point of view. -- barb
      http://www.preservedwood.com/

    • Pressure Treated Wood Arsenic Poisoning Lawsuits
      http://www.treated-wood-arsenic-poisoning.com/
      • Alternatives to CCA-Treated Wood
        http://www.treated-wood-arsenic-poisoning.com/pages/alternatives.html

      • CCA: Treated Wood Growing Awareness of Dangers
        http://www.treated-wood-arsenic-poisoning.com/pages/cca_wood_dangers.html

      • CCA Treated Wood Lawsuits and Litigation against Retailers and Manufacturers
        http://www.treated-wood-arsenic-poisoning.com/pages/treated_wood_lawsuits.html

      • Contact a Lawyer: No-Cost Consultation
        http://www.treated-wood-arsenic-poisoning.com/pages/cca_wood_dangers.html

      • EPA and Lumber Industry Action
        http://www.treated-wood-arsenic-poisoning.com/pages/epa_lumber_reg.html

      • Exposure to CCA: Medical Problems
        http://www.treated-wood-arsenic-poisoning.com/pages/CCA_effects_exposure.html

    • Pressure Wood News
      "Your Legal Rights- If you are suffering from side effects due to
      pressure treated wood exposure contact us to learn more about
      your legal rights and options."
      
      "Pressure treated wood dangers - Pressure treated wood contains the chemical
      CCA. CCA has been linked to
      cancer
      birth defects
      kidney and liver damage
      endocrine system disruption
      and death "
      http://www.pressure-treated-wood-arsenic.com/index.html
      • About Pressure Treated Wood
        http://www.pressure-treated-wood-arsenic.com/html/about.html

      • CCA Phase Out "The EPA and industry has agreed they will phase out
        pressure treated wood by the end of 2003. ..."
        http://www.pressure-treated-wood-arsenic.com/html/cca.html

    • Preventing Harm
      A resource and action center on children and the enviroment
      http://www.preventingharm.org/
      Topics covered are Arsenic, Dioxin, Dursban and Mercury.
      
      • Arsenic Wood
        http://www.preventingharm.org/arsenicwood.html

    • Scientists Seek Safe Disposal, Alternatives to Treated Wood
      Society of American Foresters; From the May 2002 issue of The Forestry Source
      " ... 'Large quantities of wood treated with CCA have been used in Florida and the
      nation to stop decay and termite damage, and now landfill managers want to
      know what will happen to the wood preservative chemicals in landfills,' said Jake
      Huffman, professor emeritus with University of Florida¼s School of Forest
      Resources and Conservation. 'This project is one step toward finding long-term
      answers.' ... "
      http://www.safnet.org/archive/502_treatedwood.htm

    • The Star.com
      
      • City to seal suspect play structures
        by Robin Harvey
        http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1022100214396

      • More tests find arsenic at High Park playground
        by Robin Harvey
        http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1021845734864
        Index to other Robin Harvey articles
        http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Render&c=Page&cid=1002723315458&ce=Columnist&colid=977459474831

      
      
    • Waste Management and Research Center
      WMRC Library Reference Guides
      Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) Treated Wood
      http://www.wmrc.uiuc.edu/library/libraryinfo/refguides/ccawood.htm

      WNC Parent safe Kids: Playgrounds Determined Safe for Kids; September 2002
      "Florida Physicians Arsenic Workgroup, a panel of six physicians, to study the subject. ...
      They concluded that 'the amount of arsenic that could be absorbed from playground
      soil and CCA treated wood is not significant compared to natural sources and will
      not result in detectable arsenic intake.' As a result, the physicians noted that the level of
      'arsenic in or around CCA treated wood playgrounds and recreational facilities does
      not appear sufficient to adversely affect the health of children or adults.' "
      http://www.wncparent.com/0902/safe0902.shtml

    
    -- end CCA --

    
    Chronic Illnesses
    
    Chronic illnesses can be caused by air polluted by petrochemical-derived fragrances. Read this
    and then continue on to the rest of the info under Chronic Illnesses. -- barb
    
    

    • Household cleaners and air fresheners emit toxic pollutants
      May 25, 2006, 12:33, Reviewed by: Dr. Priya Saxena
      "Their results indicate that we need to look beyond the directly emitted compounds."
      
      By UC Berkeley, When used indoors under certain conditions, many common household
      cleaners and air fresheners emit toxic pollutants at levels that may lead to health risks,
      according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and
      Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
      http://www.rxpgnews.com/research/environment/pollution/article_4312.shtml

         . . . and that led to . . .

      Principal Investigator: William W. Nazaroff
      University of California, Berkeley
      April 2006
      
      ARB Contract No. 01-336 (Full Report)
      ABSTRACT
      When cleaning products and air fresheners are used indoors, occupants are exposed to
      airborne chemicals, potentially leading to health risks. Indoor air pollutant exposures
      owing to cleaning product and air freshener use depend on emissions from products,
      dynamic behavior of chemical species, and human factors. A series of experiments was
      conducted to investigate volatile organic compound emissions, concentrations, and
      reactive chemistry associated with the household use of cleaning products and air
      fresheners. Research focused on two common classes of ingredients in cleaning products
      and air fresheners: ethylene-based glycol ethers, which are classified as toxic air
      contaminants, and terpenes, which react rapidly with ozone. A shelf-survey of retail
      outlets led to the selection of 21 products whose chemical composition was characterized.
      Among the criteria used to select these products were ready availability through
      California retail outlets and, for the majority of products, expectation that they contained
      ethylene-based glycol ethers, terpenes and related compounds, or both. Of the 17
      cleaning products characterized, four contained substantial levels of d-limonene (4-25% by
      mass), three contained terpenoids that are characteristic of pine oil, six contained
      substantial levels of ethylene-based glycol ethers (0.8-10% by mass), and five contained
      less than 0.2% of any of the target analytes. Xylene in one product was the only other
      toxic air contaminant detected. Among the four air fresheners characterized, three
      contained substantial quantities (9-14% by mass) of terpene hydrocarbon and terpene
      alcohol constituents, with linalool being the most abundant. Six of the 21 products were
      investigated in simulated-use experiments in which emissions and concentrations of
      primary constituents were measured. Cleaning products that contain 2- butoxyethanol
      as an active ingredient produced one-hour-average concentrations of 300 to 2,300 µg/m 3
      immediately after simulated typical use in a room-sized chamber. For cleaning products
      that contain d-limonene as an active ingredient, corresponding levels were 1,000 to
      6,000 µg/m 3 . Application of a pine-oil based cleaner produced one-hour-average
      concentrations of 10-1300 µg/m 3 for terpene hydrocarbons and terpene alcohols.
      Reactive chemistry was studied by exposing constituents of three products to ozone, both
      in a bench-scale chamber and during simulated use. Prominent products of the
      reaction of terpenes with ozone included formaldehyde (a toxic air contaminant), hydroxyl
      radical, and secondary organic aerosol (a form of fine particulate matter). Incorporating
      the new experimental data, exposures were estimated for several simulated use
      scenarios. Under ordinary circumstances, exposures to 2-butoxyethanol, formaldehyde,
      and secondary organic aerosol are not expected to be as high as guideline values solely
      as a result of cleaning product or air freshener use. However, ordinary use could lead to
      exposure levels of similar magnitude as guideline values. Scenario model results
      suggest that exposure levels could exceed guideline values under exceptional yet plausible
      conditions, such as cleaning a large surface area in a small room. The results of this
      study provide important information for understanding the inhalation exposures to
      certain air pollutants that can result from the use of common household products.
      http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/abstracts/01-336.htm
      

    
    Chronic Fatigue
    See CFIDS above.

    CEFCA (pronounced "Kef-Ka")
    Chronic Fatigue & Immune Dysfunction Syndrome,
    Environmental Illness,
    Fibromyalgia,
    Candida, and
    Allergies (Food and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities).
    http://www2.interaccess.com/montage/cefca/

    CFS/ME - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
    http://members.aol.com/MEwebsite/criteria.html
    
    ME/CFS - Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
    http://freespace.virgin.net/david.axford/me/me.htm
    
    Chronic Illness Support and Research Association (CISRA)
    Editor: J. C. Waterhouse, Ph.D.
    

    http://members.aol.com/SynergyHN/index.html

    ChronicIllNet
    http://www.chronicillnet.org/
    
    

    • AIDS:Immune System Imbalance Syndromes (ISIS)
      Keynote Address at Houston Conference on AIDS in America; Dr. Howard Urnovitz
      report by L. Joel Martinez
      http://www.chronicillnet.org/news/RITA.html
      
      
    • Findings Suggest Link Between Retrotransposons,
      Chronic Inflammation and Contaminated Vaccines (polio vaccines)
      http://www.chronicillnet.org/news/releases/release_7.html#RTFToC1
      
      
      • Study Previewed at Houston Conference Provides New Interpretation on
        How Chronic Diseases Progress
        Findings Suggest Link Between Retrotransposons, Chronic Inflammation and Contaminated Vaccines
        http://www.chronicillnet.org/news/releases/release_7.html#RTFToC1
        
        
    • Neurological Diseases
      http://www.chronicillnet.org/neuro/
      
      
    • Other Areas of Interest
      http://www.chronicillnet.org/more/default.htm
      
      
    • THE POLIO VACCINE AND SIMIAN VIRUS 40
      http://www.chronicillnet.org/online/bensweet.html#anchor714274
    
    
    ChronicNet
    
    http://www.chronicnet.org/
    
    
    • Getting Started This site is organized to give you access to the statistics, sources, and stories that
      can help you report chronic care issues at the national, state, and local levels.
      http://www.chronicnet.org/chronnet/started.htm
      
      
    • NEW REPORT CHARTS THE CRISIS IN CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS
      Trends Reveal Skyrocketing Costs, Increasing Numbers of People in Need,
      and a Dysfunctional System of Care
      http://www.chronicnet.org/chronnet/natpkpr.htm
    
    
    Chronic Syndrome Support Association, Inc.
    "It was founded in order to educate the general population and health-care professionals
    who lack current knowledge of the research being done, and potential research that
    needs to be done, on these serious, yet invisible, Chronic Immunological and
    Neurological Diseases (CIND), which include Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS), Gulf War
    Syndrome (GWS), Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome (MCS), Myalgic
    Encephalomyelitis (ME, the term used in most of the world) / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
    (CFS, the term used in the United States), and Myofascial Pain Syndrome
    (MPS). It is our goal to promote awareness of these conditions, and in the process we
    hope to contribute to the growing body of knowledge about them."
    
    http://www2.shore.net/~cssa/
    
    The Unify Coalition Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- "Advocacy and Help for 'invisible' illnesses"
    http://www.unifycoalition.org/
    • 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

    Chronic Wounds
    Wound Care Center
    Chemicals cause chronic, "non-healing" wounds! For me,
    it was pesticides used by my employer. -- barb
    http://www.marketnet.com/mktnet/wound/wcenter.html
    
    
    Church
    Also see "Relgion" ehnlinx/r.htm#Religion

    or " Worship" ehnlinx/w.htm#Worship

    • Church Accommodation Plans - United Methodist Church
      ehnlinx/methodi.htm
      
      
    • Church Radio with KKVV, Bill Ball, station manager
      http://www.kkvv.com/
    
    
    
  • CIRF/WELL
    Chemical Injury Relief Foundation/Web Environmental Lifeskills Library
    A must visit site! -- barb
    http://www.cirf-hub.ca/WELL/
    • Definition of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
      http://www.cirf-hub.ca/WELL/cfs.html

    • Definition of Fibromyalgia
      http://www.cirf-hub.ca/WELL/fms.html

    • Definition of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
      http://www.cirf-hub.ca/WELL/mcs.html

    • Eco-eco relations - Why ecology is important to economics
      http://www.cirf-hub.ca/PEC/ecoeco.html

    • Environmental Illness Links
      http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/envir.html

    • Funding
      http://www.cirf-hub.ca/PEC/funding.html

    • Personal Environmental Control (PEC) Protocol
      http://www.cirf-hub.ca/PEC/protocol.html

    Cigarettes
    
    • 599 Ingredients In A Typical Cigarette Manufactured By
      The Five Major American Cigarette Companies
      http://www.all-organic-food.com/cigrette.htm

    • American Chemical Society
      TOBACCO SMOKE FLAVORING CONTAINS HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS
      Compounds May Pose Additional Health Risk to Smokers
      http://center.acs.org/applications/news//story.cfm?story=371

    • Cigarette Additives Boost Nicotine Exposure
      Science
      http://www.aip.org/inside_science/html/74.html

    • Cigarette Secrets
      Environmental Health Perspectives; Volume 102, Number 9, September 1994
      Coumarin is used inin fragrances and in flavoring tobacco, although banned in foods. -- barb
      http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1994/102-9/forum.html#cigarette

    • Cigarette smoke worsens heart attacks
      Breathing in smoke from another person's cigarette causes blood changes that reduce the
      likelihood that an individual will survive a heart attack.
      Science News; Week of April 21, 2001; Vol. 159, No. 16
      http://www.sciencenews.org/20010421/note9ref.asp

    • Environmental Research Foundation Home
      Rachel's Environment & Health News #464 - Cigarette Science at Johns Hopkins, October 19, 1995
      "... The tobacco industry has demonstrated that 40 years of scientific
      bad news can be deflected and neutralized with relative ease. Roughly half-a- million
      Americans die each year from tobacco-related illnesses, and this assessment is not
      disputed by the federal government, or by thousands of scientific researchers and
      physicians, or by the nation's mainstream medical and health organizations. Yet the
      tobacco corporations have successfully maintained their privilege of selling a product
      that kills 10% of everyone who uses it as directed. What is the secret of such
      success? ..."
      http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=659

    • The Science Behind Tobacco
      Liberty Science Center
      http://www.lsc.org/tobacco/health/deliverySystems.html

    
    
  • Fragranced Products Information Network
    http://www.fpinva.org/
    • Fragrance Chemicals in Tobacco Products
      http://www.fpinva.org/array_of_products.tobacco.htm

    
    Licensed to Kill, Inc.
    http://www.licensedtokill.biz/
    • A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO OUR COMPANY
      http://www.licensedtokill.biz/index2.html

    • FAQs
      http://www.licensedtokill.biz/faqs.html

    • MESSAGE FROM LTK'S CHAIRMAN AND CEO RICH FROMDETH
      http://www.licensedtokill.biz/ceo.html

    -- end cigarette category --

    
    Ciguatera
    

    • Ciguatera Fish Poisoning
      FDA/CFSAN Bad Bug Book
      http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap36.html

    • Diving Medicine FAQs
      Ciguatera Poisoning
      http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/medical/faq/faq.asp?faqid=92

    • Neurotoxin Discovered in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
      "Chronic ciguatera poisoning has already been suggested as a scientific
      model for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)," stated Dr. Hokama.
      How did so many CFIDS patients eat the Ciguatera poisoned fish? -- barb
      http://www.NCF-NET.org/library/neurotoxinPR.html

      Toxicity, Ciguatera
      Last Updated: April 12, 2002
      By Thomas Arnold, MD,
      http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic100.htm

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      By S. Moser, Citizens for a Safe Learning Environment
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  Citrus Scents
  
  • Lemon-scented products spawn pollutants
    Janet Raloff; Week of Dec. 9, 2000; Vol. 158, No. 24
    ScienceNews Online
    "While prepping for holiday guests, many hosts will deploy cleaners and air fresheners
    that impart a pleasant lemon or pine scent. Though they can mask stale smells, their
    fragrant ingredientsãunder certain conditionsãmay also be a rich source of indoor
    pollution, a study finds. ..."
    http://www.sciencenews.org/20001209/fob7.asp
    Note: for more information on fragrances and flavors, visit EHN's page F
    ehnlinx/f.htm#Fragrance

    Also visit the Citizens' Petition before the FDA requesting they follow their own regulations
    already on their books to require warning labels on synthetic fragrances released to market
    without adequate testing.
    FDApetition/bkgrinfo.htm

  
  
• Clark & Bennett Spa Salon Toxic Fragrances - Examples of Accommodation: When Fragrances Are Toxic
  September 2001
  "... For all these reasons, no-scent policies or scent-free encouragement programs
  make sense in many circumstances. Prevention is the best practice that any employer
  can adopt in the workplace. No amount of human suffering is justifiable. In the
  case of fragrance-associated health problems, prevention and avoidance are the only
  cures. Health advisories and a well-informed workforce make for happier and more
  productive employees. "
  This is what they had had available . . . at
  http://www.clarkeandbennett.com/articles/fragrance.html .
  However, in 2003, I can no longer find that page, but their homepage does contain information
  on fragrances, which you may find useful. -- barb
  http://www.clarkeandbennett.com/

  Clean
  
  Choose your products carefully! Go Fragrance-FREE, Go GREEN, go ORGANIC!!!!
  And remember, GREEN, according to the Dept. Of the Interior, means that the product
  does NOT contain "petrochemical-derived fragrances."

  NOTE: The fragrance industry tells us that fragrances do not clean the air.
  RIFM RESPIRATORY SAFETY PROGRAM - INDOOR AIR QUALITY
  The fragrance industry tells us that fragrances do not clean the air. What they don't elaborate
  upon is that line about producing no smell at all. Chemicals are used to deaden your olfactory
  senses. The chemicals are there to adversely affect one's body whether or not you can smell
  them. I personally find that dangerous and despicable. -- barb
  http://www.rifm.org/WHITE%20PAPER%20IAQ%20DIsola%20v2%2004082004.htm

  
  Please note: EHN does not recommend nor endorse any product. Any listed below
  are simply suggestions to give you an idea of what all is available. Do learn about lemon- or
  orange-scented products. They can trigger asthma. Something so "natural" as peeling an
  orange can trigger asthma in some people. Listen to your own body, be mindful of others.
  
  
  First, some pages that I thought might be of particular interest . . . then onto the topic . . . OR click here to bounce there. -- barb

• A CALL TO INDOOR ARMS
  http://www.utexas.edu/research/ti2e/IAQ_Briefs/calltoarms.html

• Air Resources Board and University of California, Berkeley --
  A report worth reading. As have others, I've always contended that IF they would do the
  research, then we'd learn just how harmful to health petrochemically derived fragrance products
  are. There's more research to be done on more products, but this is a start. -- barb
  
  • Household cleaners and air fresheners emit toxic pollutants
    May 25, 2006, 12:33, Reviewed by: Dr. Priya Saxena
    "Their results indicate that we need to look beyond the directly emitted compounds."
    
    By UC Berkeley, When used indoors under certain conditions, many common household
    cleaners and air fresheners emit toxic pollutants at levels that may lead to health risks,
    according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
    http://www.rxpgnews.com/research/environment/pollution/article_4312.shtml

       . . . and that led to . . .

    Principal Investigator: William W. Nazaroff
    University of California, Berkeley
    April 2006
    
    ARB Contract No. 01-336 (Full Report)
    ABSTRACT
    When cleaning products and air fresheners are used indoors, occupants are exposed to
    airborne chemicals, potentially leading to health risks. Indoor air pollutant exposures
    owing to cleaning product and air freshener use depend on emissions from products,
    dynamic behavior of chemical species, and human factors. A series of experiments was
    conducted to investigate volatile organic compound emissions, concentrations, and
    reactive chemistry associated with the household use of cleaning products and air
    fresheners. Research focused on two common classes of ingredients in cleaning products
    and air fresheners: ethylene-based glycol ethers, which are classified as toxic air
    contaminants, and terpenes, which react rapidly with ozone. A shelf-survey of retail
    outlets led to the selection of 21 products whose chemical composition was characterized.
    Among the criteria used to select these products were ready availability through
    California retail outlets and, for the majority of products, expectation that they contained
    ethylene-based glycol ethers, terpenes and related compounds, or both. Of the 17
    cleaning products characterized, four contained substantial levels of d-limonene (4-25% by
    mass), three contained terpenoids that are characteristic of pine oil, six contained
    substantial levels of ethylene-based glycol ethers (0.8-10% by mass), and five contained
    less than 0.2% of any of the target analytes. Xylene in one product was the only other
    toxic air contaminant detected. Among the four air fresheners characterized, three
    contained substantial quantities (9-14% by mass) of terpene hydrocarbon and terpene
    alcohol constituents, with linalool being the most abundant. Six of the 21 products were
    investigated in simulated-use experiments in which emissions and concentrations of
    primary constituents were measured. Cleaning products that contain 2- butoxyethanol
    as an active ingredient produced one-hour-average concentrations of 300 to 2,300 µg/m 3
    immediately after simulated typical use in a room-sized chamber. For cleaning products
    that contain d-limonene as an active ingredient, corresponding levels were 1,000 to
    6,000 µg/m 3 . Application of a pine-oil based cleaner produced one-hour-average
    concentrations of 10-1300 µg/m 3 for terpene hydrocarbons and terpene alcohols.
    Reactive chemistry was studied by exposing constituents of three products to ozone, both
    in a bench-scale chamber and during simulated use. Prominent products of the
    reaction of terpenes with ozone included formaldehyde (a toxic air contaminant), hydroxyl
    radical, and secondary organic aerosol (a form of fine particulate matter). Incorporating
    the new experimental data, exposures were estimated for several simulated use
    scenarios. Under ordinary circumstances, exposures to 2-butoxyethanol, formaldehyde,
    and secondary organic aerosol are not expected to be as high as guideline values solely
    as a result of cleaning product or air freshener use. However, ordinary use could lead to
    exposure levels of similar magnitude as guideline values. Scenario model results
    suggest that exposure levels could exceed guideline values under exceptional yet plausible
    conditions, such as cleaning a large surface area in a small room. The results of this
    study provide important information for understanding the inhalation exposures to
    certain air pollutants that can result from the use of common household products.
    http://www.arb.ca.gov/research/abstracts/01-336.htm
    

  
  

• Science News
  
  • A Whiff of Danger
    Registered subscribers only
    That is IF you also have a newer computer, which will allow you to get to the story. -- barb
    Ý(3/19/2005) Synthetic fragrance chemicals can inhibit the activity of molecules that cells depend on
    to eject harmful substances.
    Hey folks, how about this as a clue to those of us who have MCS????

    I have always said it was the proliferation of modern, petrochemical-derived perfumes, worn by my
    colleagues in my former, highly polluted workplace that was the cause of my MCS. Before that,
    I had lived most of my life with chemical induced asthma . . . not that that was diagnosed at age
    five by any means. But the medical industry did learn about it by the time I hit my 40s and a
    doctor said, "IF you have had this type of coughing since you were five, then you have had
    chemical-induced asthma since you were five." That, by the bye was when a chemical pall settled
    over south St. Louis from a "refinery mishap," as my mother had stated. -- barb
    Search: http://www.sciencenews.org/

  • Lemon-scented products spawn pollutants
    Janet Raloff
    Week of Dec.Ý9,Ý2000; Vol. 158, No. 24 , p. 375
    
    "While prepping for holiday guests, many hosts will deploy cleaners and air fresheners
    that impart a pleasant lemon or pine scent. Though they can mask stale smells, their
    fragrant ingredientsãunder certain conditionsãmay also be a rich source of indoor
    pollution, a study finds. ..."
    http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20001209/fob7.asp

  • My Own Bad Air Day
    Ben Harder
    Week of Jan.Ý3,Ý2004; Vol. 165, No. 1 , p. 4
    A new study suggests that most people inhale substantially more organic contaminants,
    including cancer-causing benzene, than is indicated by standard environmental risk
    assessments based on outdoor measurements.
    http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040103/fob3.asp

  • Stung Lung: Volatile chemical may cut respiratory capacity Ý
    Registered subscribers only
    That is IF you also have a newer computer, which will allow you to get to the story. -- barb
    (8/5/2006)
    Para-dichlorobenzene, a chemical in some air fresheners and pest-control products, may
    slightly impair lung function in millions of people.
    Search: http://www.sciencenews.org/

• Environmentally Friendly Cleaning Products
  http://www.livingclean.co.uk

• Smithsonian's National Zollilogical Park's Green Team Tips . . .
  
  Spring Cleaning
  Do your spring cleaning safely. Did you know cleaning your home can be harmful to
  your health? Many common household cleaners contain toxic
  solvents, fragrances,
  disinfectants, and other ingredients that can pollute the air and cause respiratory, skin,
  and other reactions. Learn about vegetable-based cleaning products you can buy,
  recipes for cleaners you can make at home, and more tips on green cleaning. Before you
  clean out your garage and cart everything off to the dumpster, go to Earth911.org to
  find out where to recycle, donate, and safely dispose of many of your possessions.
  Need to clean up your yard? Choose exercise over emissions: leave the leaf blower behind
  and pick up a rake; forget the gas-powered lawn mower and purchase a manual push or
  electric mower.
  http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/GreenTeam/#springcleaning
  • Vegetable Cleaning Products
    http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/GreenTeam/#CleaningProducts

• Recipes for Cleaners . . . out to Care2
  http://www.care2.com/channels/lifestyle/home/#55

• Green Cleaning . . . out to a GRIST article reprinted from The Green Guide
  http://www.grist.org/advice/possessions/2003/03/18/possessions-cleaning/index.html
• Earth 911 . . . out to ???. Alas, my old computer cannot read this page.-- barb http://www.earth911.org/master.asp