Endocrine Disruptors
Endocrine Disruptors
Endocrine Disruptors Links
- Öko-Recherche Analyses of material flows of chemicals in the environment, including endocrine-disrupting industrial chemicals.
- Endocrine Disruptors Research Initiative Describes the coordination of U.S. federal government efforts to examine the hypothesis that there are chemicals present in the environment of humans and wildlife that, by virtue of their ability to interact with endocrine systems, are causing a variety of adverse health effects.
- Environmental Estrogens Excerpts and bibliography from a doctoral thesis of B. Rey de Castro. Estrogenic potency of PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) prevalent in human tissue and the environment.
- Endocrine Disrupters: Are Synthetic Hormones Causing Environmental Chaos? Information from the Why Files about the endocrine system, effects of pesticides/PCBs/dioxins on wildlife and people, and prospects for action to resolve this concern.
- Hormone Deception Information by D. Lindsey Berkson explaining what hormone disruptors are and their possible effects in the human body; steps to reduce exposure and protect families.
- Our Stolen Future Provides updates about endocrine disruption created by man-made chemical contaminants that interfere with hormones in humans and wildlife.
- Endocrine Disrupting Substances in the Environment Canadian Environmental Corps offers PDF file on this subject.
- Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis By Sheldon Krimsky. Review of book in JAMA.
- OECD Endocrine Disruptors Assessment Part of the OECD Test Guidelines Programme and focuses on reaching international agreement on the testing and assessment of chemicals with respect to their endocrine disrupting potential.
- Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment 1999 National Academy of Sciences report (1) examines the science behind the ominous prospect of "estrogen mimics" threatening health and well-being and (2) identifies research needs. Purchase book or read it online.
- Endocrine/Estrogen Letter Newsletter and comprehensive set of endocrine disrupter links.
- Endocrine Disrupting Substances Fact sheets, research agenda, and action strategies from Environment Canada.
- Teens Before Their Time With budding breasts and pubic hair, girls are developing earlier than ever. What's causing it? And what are the psychological effects? Time Magazine.
- International POPs Elimination Network IPEN works for the global elimination of persistent organic pollutants. Information on PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) including health effects, international, national and local policy efforts, elimination technology, and links to further research and resources.
- WWF Endocrine Disruptor Information Papers and speeches on how hormone disruptors interfere with bio-chemical processes, and a suspected list of hormone disruptors.
- e.hormone: At the Cutting Edge of Endocrine Disruptor Research. Provide information about: upcoming conferences, the latest in research techniques and results, commentaries from distinguished scholars in the field, links to related news and stories.
- Environmental Toxins and Reproductive Health -- About.com Information and internet links related to the reproductive effects of dioxins and other environmental toxins.
- Fertility on the Brink: The Legacy of the Chemical Age National Wildlife Federation report -- discusses scientific studies showing that hormone-imitating chemicals are building up in animals and humans and disrupting reproduction, immunity, behavior, and metabolism.
- Introduction to Hormone Disrupting Chemicals An introduction to the effects of hormone disrupting chemicals on man and the environment, and the response of governments and industry to this problem. Written for anyone interested in the subject. Includes internet links and other references.
- Global Campaign to Reduce the Use of Toxic Chemicals Information from the World Wildlife Fund on toxic chemicals in the environment. Focus on endocrine disruptors, persistant organic pesticides (POP's) and agricultural pesticides.
- Endocrine Disruptors Low-Dose Peer Review Report evaluating the low dose effects and dose response relationships for endocrine disrupting chemicals in mammalian species that relate to human health.
| Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. |
| Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor |