Government resources

Cancer Information Service

European Union Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH)

National Cancer Institute

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Plastics and the Microwave (U.S. Food and Drug Administration report)

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

U.S. CDC's National Center for Environmental Health

U.S. CDC's biomonitoring program (National Health and Nutrition Examination Study)

U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

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U.S. FDA's Total Diet Study

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's risk assessment of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)

World Health Organization Children's Environmental Health


Organizations

Chemical body burden

Children's Health Environmental Coalition

Collaborative on Health and the Environment

Commonweal

Daily updates summarizing media coverage of environment and health issues

Environmental Working Group

Natural Resources and Defense Council

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - Heightened Senses Network

Phthalates and beauty products

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Science and Environmental Health Network

Silent Spring Institute

Women's Environmental Network


Industry

Albemarle

American Chemistry Council

Bisphenol - A Website

  Bromine Science and Environmental Forum

DuPont

International Council of Chemical Associations

Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) facts

Phthalate Information Center (USA)

Phthalate Information Center (Europe)

Plastics and health information (American Plastics Council)

Teflon information (DuPont)

3M


Other Body Burden questionnaires/virtual tours

Children's Health Environmental Coalition quiz and tour

Environmental Working Group body burden test

Environmental Working Group virtual drug store

The Teflon world


Scientific reports

DDT fact sheet

European Union's hazard assessment of Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and its salts

Mercury levels in women and children (Journal of the American Medical Association)

Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) overview from Environment California

Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) white paper from the Research Center for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology

Swedish Chemicals Inspectorate dossier on perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's risk assessment of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's docket for perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate acid (PFOA)

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