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TAKE ACTION From The Campaign for Safe
Cosmetics: Because We're Worth It! The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is urging people to avoid these products until cosmetics companies remove these unnecessary, toxic chemicals. There is no reason for these companies to put chemicals linked to birth defects into products we smear on our lips and faces. Unfortunately, the U.S. government lets cosmetic companies put unlimited amounts of chemicals into personal care products with no required testing, no monitoring of health effects and inadequate labels. We must act now to demand safer products. Because We're Worth It! The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is calling on all cosmetics companies to protect our health by phasing out the use of chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects. Cosmetics and personal care companies are already phasing these chemicals out of products they sell in Europe, due to more protective public health laws. Don't we deserve the same? Take Action!
Revlon's Toll Free Consumer
Line: 800-473-8566 2. Click here (or paste the following link into your browser) and join our campaign by signing the petition calling on all personal care companies to remove chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects from their products NOW. http://action.safecosmetics.org/petition/ 3. Click here to find out what's in your products and find safer options! http://www.safecosmetics.org//facts/skindeep.cfm We have a right to safer and healthy products!Please forward far and wide. Chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects do not belong in products we use on our bodies! Help us give the cosmetics industry a makeover. For more information and to get involved visit our website: www.SafeCosmetics.org. Or contact: Lisa Archer, Safe
Cosmetics Campaign, Friends of the Earth cosmetics@foe.org 202-222-0712
Founding partners of Because We're Worth It! The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics Include: Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, The Breast Cancer Fund, Commonweal, Environmental Working Group, Friends of the Earth, National Environmental Trust, and Women's Voices for the Earth. *** From Beyond pesticides: 2,4-D UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT; DUE August 23, 2004! Beyond Pesticides will soon release an Action Alert to provide more details on EPA's draft risk assessment recently released as well as asking for others to send comments to EPA or sign-on to ours. In the meantime, please be aware that comments are due in just three weeks. If anyone would like to join a special ad hoc 2,4-D workgroup and listserv to discuss comments, please contact shoover@beyondpesticides.org . For more information on 2,4-D see our newly revised factsheet at: http://www.beyondpesticides.org/pesticides/factsheets/ http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2004/June/Day-23/p13858.htm>´2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid; Availability of Risk Assessment. http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2004/June/Day-23/p13858.htm 2,4-D is a broad-spectrum herbicide registered for use in numerous agricultural, forestry, aquatic, and turf applications. It is the most used homeowner product and the most used pesticide by the Industry/Commercial/Government market section. Despite numerous epidemiological and animal studies that support the mounting body of evidence linking 2,4-D to numerous cancers, particularly non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, EPA is still claiming not enough data is available and listing the herbicide in class D for carcinogenicity. Studies also characterize the chemical as teratogenic (causing birth defects) and an endocrine disruptor, in addition to other health effects. Environmentally, 2,4-D has a high potential to contaminate ground water and has done so in at least five states and Canada. Studies also support its negative impacts on animals, including birds, fish (where it can bioaccumulate), earthworms, and beneficial insects. EPA's risk assessment for short-term post application exposure and one-day toddler post application exposures just meet the Agency's level of concern. The post application exposures to adults exceed EPA's Margin of Exposure (MOE) for both heavy yard work and playing golf. http://www.beyondpesticides.org/pesticides/factsheets/LowDown on Dursban.pdf (See explanation of MOE at http://www.beyondpesticides.org/pesticides/factsheets/LowDown%20on%20Dursban.pdf ... Shawnee Hoover, Special Projects Director, Beyond Pesticides/NCAMP, shoover@beyondpesticides.org www.beyondpesticides.org/main.html ================================================= ADDRESSES Network in Denmark for MCS patients. Its free to be a member. The site is www.mcsjette.webbyen.dk. The site has a lot of information fore MCS patients and there is af page for MCS Network Denmark. ================================================= CHEMICALS The Lancet - World Report -
Chemical danger Chemical soup Howard says chemicals can be found in breast milk and travel across the placenta. They can cause malformation of tissues in the growing fetus because as they occur in similar concentrations to the cell signalling molecules at work during organ building. ... The precautionary principle According to Howard politicians need to take steps that will minimise exposure to chemicals by first assuming they cause harm. "If chemicals persist and .. http://www.thelancet.com ================================================= CHEMICALS - FRAGRANCES greenpeace UK perfumes
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/Products/Toxics/chemicalhouse.cfm?producttypeid=5
CHEMICALS – PESTICIDES From PANUPs Pesticide Action
Network Updates Service: *** Notice of Intent to List a Chemical - Vanadium Pentoxide meets the criteria for listing under Title 22, Cal. Code of Regs., Section 1230, for listing as causing cancer under the authoritative bodies mechanism. [07/16/04] For more information, please click on the following link: http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/CRNR_notices/admin_listing/intent_to_list/NOIL_ABpkg20b.html ================================================= CHEMICALS - PESTICIDES - POLITIC From CBG: 07/26/2004 Joint press release by the German Naturschutzbund NABU, the Coalition against BAYER-dangers and the Association of German Professional Apiarists Bee-keepers and environmental groups demand prohibition of pesticide "Gaucho". Death of bee-populations: "German Minister Renate Kuenast has a duty to act" (Bonn/Berlin) German apiarists and environmental groups have demanded an interim prohibition of the pesticide Gaucho as well as further remedies containing the active agent Imidacloprid in Germany. Imidacloprid is under serious suspicion of being responsible for the dying of bee-populations in vast parts of Europe. The Association of German Professional Apiarists (DBIB), the Naturschutzbund (NABU) and the Coalition against BAYER-dangers appealed to Federal minister for consumers Kuenast to withdraw the pesticide`s permission unless all actual knowledge will be fully verified. "Kuenast has to follow the French government`s example of removing from the market any pesticide which endangers bee-populations" claims Manfred Hederer, president of the Association of German Professional Apiarists. The "Comité Scientifique et Technique", in charge of the French government, lately declared that the treatment of seeds with Gaucho produces a significant risk for bees. NABU`s agricultural expert Florian Schoene on this: "On behalf of a provident protection of environment and consumers the admission of this substance in Germany also has to be verified". Imidacloprid is produced by the Leverkusen-based BAYER corporation. In Germany it is used under the brand names Gaucho and Chinook mainly during the cultivation of rape, sugar-beets and corn. During the last years in Germany as well as in France almost 50 % of all bee-populations died. Also wild bees and other insects suffered from a significant loss of population during that time. According to BAYER a study of the French governmental department AFFSA lately invalidated the complaints against Gaucho. This statement was refused by an AFFSA spokesman. "With an annual turn-over of more than half a billion Euro Imidacloprid ranges among the most important products of BAYER. This is the reason why BAYER, despite serious environmental damage, is leading a "tooth & claw"- fight against any application prohibitions", said Philipp Mimkes, speaker of the Coalition against BAYER-dangers. Manfred Hederer: Manfred.Hederer@berufsimker.de Florian Schoene: Florian.Schöne@nabu.de, www.NABU.de Philipp Mimkes: CBGnetwork@aol.com , www.CBGnetwork.de
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Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly-Identified Health Risks http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scenihr/04_scenihr_en.htm - Legal document: List of experts appointed as members of the scientific committees, July 2004 New http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_risk/legal_risk_en.htm> Health Strategy: Key document:
Partnerships for Health in Europe, July 2004 New Health information:
Event: Meeting of the Network of Working Party Leaders. First meeting,
Luxembourg, 05 July 2004 And other sites from http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ ================================================= INDUSTRIE July 27, 2004 Press Release by
the Coalition against BAYER-dangers Recently BAYER corporation signed a cooperation-contract with the UN`s environmental agency UNEP. Over a period of 3 years BAYER is going to provide an annual amount of one million Euro for UNEP´s "Youth & Environment" programme. The focal-point of this cooperation will be the Asia-Pacific region. Philipp Mimkes of the Coalition against BAYER-dangers (Germany) comments: "BAYER, like any multi-national company, has by no means anything one could call a "green conscience", but is merely interested in profits. To this day this corporation has fought, through its lobbyists, against any positive agreement on environmental issues, be it the Kyoto Protocol for the protection of the climate or the new EU law on chemicals. It`s a real set-back for efforts to assure environmental protection if corporations like BAYER are allowed to associate themselves with the UN." Pointing out that BAYER produces a great number of highly dangerous substances like pesticides, plasticisers, Bisphenol A and phosgene, Mimkes claims: "To BAYER, supporting the UNEP is nothing more than a sheer publicity campaign. There is no easier and more informal way of achieving a positive company image". Four years ago BAYER was also one of the signatories of the UN Global Compact, in which more than 100 companies acknowledged the importance of environmental protection, worker safety and human rights. But with the Global Compact there were also no criteria laid down by the UNO: Any company, from firms producing nuclear power plants to oil corporations, were eligible to participate. After a company has signed the Compact there are no follow-up reviews whatsoever, and all agreements are non-binding. "Especially paradoxical", Philipp Mimkes further points out, "is the fact that in this cooperation between BAYER and UNEP the focal-point is on Asia". BAYER is working intensively on the approval of genetically modified rice. As rice is the staple food for 2.5 billion people, the introduction of these modified types would have dramatic consequences: Millions of farmers who by now are producing their own seeds by exchange and self-cultivation would become dependent on multi-national corporations. The concentration-process, formerly witnessed during the "green revolution", would inevitably lead to the loss of livelihoods for millions of farmers and force them to migrate to the slums surrounding the big cities. BAYER widely uses its involvement with the UN to bolster its integrity, for example on the company`s homepage and in numerous advertising brochures. Even Bayer's annual report contains a compliment by Kofi Annan, with a picture and the UN logo. Because of examples like this, Friends Of The Earth is complaining about the private economy`s insidious takeover of the United Nations and fears that voluntary agreements might hinder the ratification of binding rules. *** July 15, 2004 Bayer agreed to plead guilty in federal court in San Francisco to one charge of conspiring with other participants to fix prices between 1995 and 2001. The plea bargain ``is an important step in our prosecution of a cartel that harmed millions of American consumers who use a broad spectrum of products manufactured with rubber chemicals,'' said R. Hewitt Pate, the Justice Department's chief antitrust enforcer. The guilty plea will expose Bayer to possible civil damages sought by tiremakers and other purchasers of chemicals for making synthetic rubber. Civil Damages Prosecutors said Bayer representatives participated in meetings with other companies where prices were set for rubber chemicals used to improve the elasticity, strength and durability of rubber used in tires, outdoor furniture, hoses, belts and footwear. Bayer, Crompton and BASF AG, the world's largest chemical maker, have been named in at least 13 antitrust lawsuits filed in U.S. courts accusing the companies of fixing prices for urethane, a component of plastics and synthetic rubber used to make conveyer belts, tires, gaskets and soles for shoes. In May, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the largest North American tire maker, accused Crompton, Bayer and other companies of conspiring to overcharge for ethylene propylene diene monomer, or EPDM, synthetic rubber. The Goodyear lawsuit also names Polimeri Europa SpA of Italy and DSM Elastomers BV in the Netherlands. Joint Venture DuPont Co., based in Wilmington, Delaware, has agreed to pay 100 percent of any liability of the joint venture up to $150 million and 75 percent of any amount exceeding that figure, DuPont and Dow Chemical Co. said in April. Freudenberg-NOK, an auto parts joint venture of Germany's Freudenberg & Co. and Japan's NOK Corp., also accused Dow, DuPont and Crompton of fixing prices in a separate suit filed in San Francisco. American depositary receipts of Bayer, each representing one ordinary share, dropped 17 cents to $27.80 at 3:48 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. (Bloomberg) Coalition against BAYER-dangers www.CBGnetwork.org CBGnetwork@aol.com ================================================= POLITIC Pesticides EPA to Award $500,000 in Regional Grants To Limit Children's Exposure, Other Projects: The Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Pesticide Programs is seeking grant proposals for $500,000 in projects related to protecting children from pesticide exposure, reducing health risks by altering how pesticides are applied, and other topics, the agency said in a July 16 notice (69 Fed. Reg. 42,723). ================================================= RACHEL'S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH NEWS July 22, 2004, #796 Fiery Hell on Earth, Part 5 A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN We began this series seeking an explanation for America's contradictory and self-defeating nuclear policies. We end by seeking explanations for larger -- but equally perplexing -- U.S. environmental policies. July 8, 2004, #795 Fiery Hell on Earth, Pt. 4 "GOD TOLD ME TO STRIKE" In this series (see Rachel's #792, #793, #794), I am trying to discover reasons why the U.S. is pursuing contradictory and seemingly self-destructive nuclear policies, including: http://www.rachel.org
================================================= J Neuroinflammation. 2004 Apr 20;1(1) Welcome to the Journal of Neuroinflammation! Mrak RE, Griffin WS., Professor of Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. mrakroberte@uams.edu Welcome to the Journal of Neuroinflammation, an open-access, peer-reviewed, online journal that focuses on innate immunological responses of the central nervous system, involving microglia, astrocytes, cytokines, chemokines, and related molecular processes. 'Neuroinflammation' is an encapsulization of the idea that microglial and astrocytic responses and actions in the central nervous system have a fundamentally inflammation-like character, and that these responses are central to the pathogenesis and progression of a wide variety of neurological disorders. This concept has its roots in the discoveries of inflammatory cytokines and proteins in the plaques of Alzheimer disease, and these ideas have been extended to other neurodegenerative diseases, to ischemic / toxic diseases, to tumor biology and even to normal brain development. The Journal of Neuroinflammation, published by BioMed Central, will bring together work focusing on microglia, astrocytes, cytokines, chemokines, and related molecular processes in the central nervous system. All articles published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation will be immediately listed in PubMed, and access to published articles will be universal and free through the internet. http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/home/ http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=483051 *** Fluoride wide Range of serious health problems For widespread distribution : http://www.wtv-zone.com/infchoice/mcs_australia.html *** Identification Of Volatile Organic Compounds In a New Automobile Scientific Instrument Services 23dec99 Santford V. Overton & John J. Manura http://www.mindfully.org/Air/2002/VOCs-New-Auto-Smell23dec99.htm *** Traumatic brain injury, a 'silent handicap,' affects many Iraq vets . http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/182691_iraqbrain19.html *** Autism declining w/thimersol phase out(?) According to information released today by the California State Department of Developmental Services (DDS), California's developmental services system has just experienced the first ever nine month sustained reduction in the numbers of professionally diagnosed new cases of full syndrome autism being added to California's developmental services system. The data compares new intakes from the most current three consecutive quarterly periods (October 2003 through June 2004) to all other previous October through June time periods.... http://www.dds.cahwnet.gov/autism/autism_main.cfm *** The August issue of Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is available online. You can see it here: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2004/112-11/toc.html Table of Contents
Allen Dearry Correspondence
p. A 604 Environews Forum
p. A 612 NIEHS News
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Research
Using Human Disease Outbreaks as a Guide to Multilevel Ecosystem Interventions Angus Cook, Andrew Jardine, and Philip Weinstein p. 1143 Articles
Age-Related Differences in Susceptibility to Carcinogenesis: A Quantitative Analysis of Empirical Animal Bioassay Data Dale Hattis, Robert Goble, Abel Russ, Margaret Chu, and Jen Ericson p. 1152 Behavioral Alterations in Response to Fear-Provoking Stimuli and Tranylcypromine Induced by Perinatal Exposure to Bisphenol A and Nonylphenol in Male Rats Takayuki Negishi, Katsuyoshi Kawasaki, Shingo Suzaki, Haruna Maeda, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Shigeru Kyuwa, Yoichiro Kuroda, and Yasuhiro Yoshikawa p. 1159 Hair Mercury Levels in U.S. Children and Women of Childbearing Age: Reference Range Data from NHANES 1999-2000 Margaret A. McDowell, Charles F. Dillon, John Osterloh, P. Michael Bolger, Edo Pellizzari, Reshan Fernando, Ruben Montes de Oca, Susan E. Schober, Thomas Sinks, Robert L. Jones, and Kathryn R. Mahaffey p. 1165 The Effect of Arsenic Mitigation Interventions on Disease Burden in Bangladesh Kamalini M. Lokuge, Wayne Smith, Bruce Caldwell, Keith Dear, and Abul H. Milton p. 1172 Lead, Diabetes, Hypertension, and Renal Function: The Normative Aging Study Shirng-Wern Tsaih, Susan Korrick, Joel Schwartz, Chitra Amarasiriwardena, Antonio Aro, David Sparrow, and Howard Hu p. 1178 Pesticide Spraying for West Nile Virus Control and Emergency Department Asthma Visits in New York City, 2000 Adam M. Karpati, Mary C. Perrin, Tom Matte, Jessica Leighton, Joel Schwartz, and R. Graham Barr p. 1183 Environmental Medicine
Children Health Articles
Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and Related Perfluorinated Compounds in Human Maternal and Cord Blood Samples: Assessment of PFOS Exposure in a Susceptible Population during Pregnancy Koichi Inoue, Fumio Okada, Rie Ito, Shizue Kato, Seiko Sasaki, Sonomi Nakajima, Akiko Uno, Yasuaki Saijo, Fumihiro Sata, Yoshihiro Yoshimura, Reiko Kishi, and Hiroyuki Nakazawa p. 1204 Fetal Exposure to PCBs and Their Hydroxylated Metabolites in a Dutch Cohort Shalini Devi Soechitram, Maria Athanasiadou, Lotta Hovander, Åke Bergman, and Pieter Jan Jacob Sauer p. 1208 Drinking Water Contaminants, Gene Polymorphisms, and Fetal Growth Claire Infante-Rivard p. 1213 *** The July issue of Environmental Health Perspectives is available online. You can see it here: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2004/112-10/toc.html Table of Contents
Perchlorate Debate Grows Breastfeeding and Babies' Lives Shedding Light on Vitamin D Deficiency in Women Pesticides and Parkinson Disease EHPnet: Special Programme for
Food Security The Beat NIEHS News p. A 550 Innovations
p. A 564 Research
Articles
Manufactured Nanomaterials (Fullerenes, C60) Induce Oxidative Stress in the Brain of Juvenile Largemouth Bass Eva Oberdörster p. 1058 Personal Exposure to Submicrometer Particles and Heart Rate Variability in Human Subjects Chang-Chuan Chan, Kai-Jen Chuang, Guang-Ming Shiao, and Lian-Yu Lin p. 1063 Community-Based Randomized Double-Blind Study of Gastrointestinal Effects and Copper Exposure in Drinking Water Magdalena Araya, Manuel Olivares, Fernando Pizarro, Adolfo Llanos, Guillermo Figueroa, and Ricardo Uauy p. 1068 Associations between Organochlorine Contaminant Concentrations and Clinical Health Parameters in Loggerhead Sea Turtles from North Carolina, USA Jennifer M. Keller, John R. Kucklick, M. Andrew Stamper, Craig A. Harms, and Patricia D. McClellan-Green p. 1074 Associations between Plasma DDE Levels and Immunologic Measures in African-American Farmers in North Carolina Glinda S. Cooper, Stephen A. Martin, Matthew P. Longnecker, Dale P. Sandler, and Dori R. Germolec p. 1080 Different Levels of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) and Chlorinated Compounds in Breast Milk from Two U.K. Regions Olga I. Kalantzi, Francis L. Martin, Gareth O. Thomas, Ruth E. Alcock, Huiru R. Tang, Suzanne C. Drury, Paul L. Carmichael, Jeremy K. Nicholson, and Kevin C. Jones p. 1085 Meeting Report Unhealthy Landscapes: Policy Recommendations on Land Use Change and Infectious Disease Emergence Jonathan A. Patz, Peter Daszak, Gary M. Tabor, A. Alonso Aguirre, Mary Pearl, Jon Epstein, Nathan D. Wolfe, A. Marm Kilpatrick, Johannes Foufopoulos, David Molyneux, David J. Bradley, and Members of the Working Group on Land Use Change and Disease Emergence p. 1092 Environmental Medicine
Article Nutritional Factors and Susceptibility to Arsenic-Caused Skin Lesions in West Bengal, India Soma R. Mitra, D.N. Guha Mazumder, Arindam Basu, Gladys Block, Reina Haque, Sambit Samanta, Nilima Ghosh, Meera M. Hira Smith, Ondine S. von Ehrenstein, and Allan H. Smith p. 1104 Children's Health Articles
Association of in Utero Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Fetal Growth and Length of Gestation in an Agricultural Population Brenda Eskenazi, Kim Harley, Asa Bradman, Erin Weltzien, Nicholas P. Jewell, Dana B. Barr, Clement E. Furlong, and Nina T. Holland p. 1116 Prenatal Insecticide Exposures and Birth Weight and Length among an Urban Minority Cohort Robin M. Whyatt, Virginia Rauh, Dana B. Barr, David E. Camann, Howard F. Andrews, Robin Garfinkel, Lori A. Hoepner, Diurka Diaz, Jessica Dietrich, Andria Reyes, Deliang Tang, Patrick L. Kinney, and Frederica P. Perera p. 1125 Biomarkers in Maternal and Newborn Blood Indicate Heightened Fetal Susceptibility to Procarcinogenic DNA Damage Frederica P. Perera, Deliang Tang, Yi-Hsuan Tu, Linda Ali Cruz, Mejico Borjas, Tom Bernert, and Robin M. Whyatt p. 1133 Brought to you by ehpOnline http://www.ehpOnline.org/
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