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Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR) - Resource designed to aid in understanding the chronic & acute health impacts of pesticides. Provide review of studies linking pesticides with chronic & acute diseases. Go

Pesticide Action Network UK - Provides information on health effects of pesticides, news, campaigns & projects. Go

Produce Items May Exceed EPA Standards - Pesticide residue levels on produces exceed EPA standards. Right. Washingtonpost. (February 19, 1999) Go

Pollution 'Damages Intelligence' - Environmental damage is sapping the intelligence of millions of people globally, says a British social scientist. BBC News. Go

Civitas - Citizens for Planetary Health - Promotes environmental & human health by exposing harmful practices & policies such as relying upon unscientific animal experiments to justify poisoning the environment & to predict the effects of toxins & medicines on humans. Go

The Women's Environmental Network - WEN campaigns on issues that link women, health & the environment. Campaigns promote positive alternatives to polluting practices & consumer items. Provides information on environmental health, food & genetic engineering. Go

Pesticide Education Center - Provides information on health effects of pesticides. Promote safer alternative pest control methods to the public through videos, books & other materials. Go

Beyond Pesticides - National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides gives information on pesticides. Current actions & newsletters including pesticide safety & alternatives. Go

WWF Toxics Programme - News, publications, factsheets, & other resources from an initiative to end threats to bio-diversity from the use of toxic chemicals. Go

Pesticide Watch - Information about pesticides & the problems associated with pesticide use. Provide California communities with the tools they need to protect themselves & the environment from the hazards of pesticides. Go

Natural Resources Defense Council - Toxic Chemicals & Health - NRDC gives information, reports, fact sheets & studies on everyday health threats posed by toxic chemicals & pesticides. Go

Combination of Pesticides Linked to Parkinson's Disease - A combination of two widely used agricultural pesticides - but neither one alone - creates in mice the exact pattern of brain damage that doctors see in patients with Parkinson's disease. (January 3, 2001) Go

Parents Against Leukaemia - Action group highlighting the possible link between emf & leukaemia. Background information, personal stories, contact information & links. Go

Workplace Toxins Can Kill at Home - Investigation found that employees in more than 35 states have unwittingly transported toxins away from work sites exposing family members. USA Today. (October 11, 2000) Go

Conspiracy of Silence - Documents a PCB spill & clean up, industries reaction & the eventual ban of the sale of PCB's. Go

Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) - Organization working to reduce the use of hazardous pesticides world wide. Go

CQS Health & Environment - Health alert & toxic alert information about health, fitness, & the environment & their intimate connection. Activist group's site. And so... Some alternative views on HIV & AIDS. Go

Insecticide Causes Mad Cow Disease - Research that shows insecticide used in the UK government warble-fly campaigns triggered the UK surge of 'Mad Cow' disease. Latest experiments by Cambridge University prion specialist David R. Brown shows that prions in the bovine spine can be damaged by organophosphate insecticides causing the disease. Optimal Wellness Center News. (December 17, 2000) Go

Burning Issues - Research & data on wood smoke pollution & combustion particulates. Research shows that 60,000 people in the US die each year from smoke pollution. Site chosen by the BBC Education Directory for excellence in the information presented. Go

Mainlining Danger: Hospital Patients Exposed to High Levels of Toxic Chemicals in Vinyl I.V. Bags - Greenpeace data shows that vinyl (PVC) medical devices contain high levels of toxic additives which can leach out through surrounding fluids, exposing hospital patients to a probable human carcinogen. (February 22, 1999) Go

Toxic Substances & Kids Developmental Effects - Information about the effects of mercury, toxic metals, endocrine disrupting chemicals, air pollution on kids health. Go

Composted Kitchen Waste May Put Heavy Metals In The Soil - Some systems of ecological arable farming in developed countries, which use only organic fertilisers contaminate the soil with levels of cadmium, copper & lead which are twice or two times as high as when a combination of both animal manure & artificial fertiliser is used. (Studied samples using kitchen waste) (February 10, 1999) Go

Pesticide Policy Project - Promote development & testing methodologies for crop protection policy reform. Provide information on alternative crop protection methods like integrated pest management. Go

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides - NCAP works to protect people & the environment by advancing healthy solutions to pest problems. Provide news & information on pesticide issues. Go

The Purdey Environmental Home Page - Mark Purdey's research into how organophosphate pesticides & other pollutants may be causing diseases such as BSE, CJD, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Alzheimer's. Go

The Healthy Community: One for All, All for One - Chapter from the free on line book, How to Get the Best Medical Care - A Guide for the Intelligent Patient. Discusses the environments effect on human health. Go

Long Islanders Against Pesticides - LIAP is a non-profit community education organization providing information on the use of pesticides in the New York & Long Island communities. Go

Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database - Provides pesticide information from many different sources. Clear? Includes definitions, references & user manual. Go

Pesticide Action Network International - Network of over 600 participating nongovernmental organizations, institutions & individual persons in over sixty countries working to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives. Projects & campaigns are coordinated by five autonomous Regional Centers. Go

Canadians Against Pesticides - Informing Canadians of pesticide risks. Actions against pesticides & toxins. Go

Radioactive Polonium - Article, references & background information on Polonium exposure & the attendant health risks. Go

The Ailing Environment  - Perspective by Stephen J. Gislason on how the environment is getting sicker & making people sicker. Go



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