Plastics and Our Health

Toxic Chemical Leaches from Popular Baby Bottles
http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/newsroom/environmental-health/environmental-health-news/toxic-chemical-leaches-from-popular-baby-bottles

Endocrine-Disrupting Organotin Compounds Are Potent Inducers of Adipogenesis in Vertebrates
http://mend.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/9/2141?ct

ZWA REPORTS: Are Plastic Products Causing Breast Cancer Epidemic?
http://zerowasteamerica.org/Plastics&BreastCancer.htm

HEALTH IMPACTS OF WASTE & POLLUTION...Is the human race “devolving”?
http://zerowasteamerica.org/HealthImpacts.htm

Avoiding Hormone-Altering Chemicals http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/1995Newsletters/Newsletter033G.html

Let It Show http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/1994Newsletters/Newsletter023G.html

States and cities move to curb toxic substances the EPA hasn't
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-07-epa-chemicals_N.htm

War on plastic heating up
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/210906

Bill would ban chemical from plastic baby toys
http://www.fresnobee.com/384/story/46102.html

Xenoestrogen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen

A Child-Safe U.S. Chemical Policy-Children’s Environmental Health Network
BACKGROUND PAPER
http://www.cehn.org/cehn/chemicals%20&%20Vccep/child%20safe%20chemicals%20backgrounder.htm

Secret ties to industry and conflicting interests in cancer research. http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/Industry/2006/2006-1103hardelletal.html

Widespread Pollutants with Endocrine-disrupting Effects
http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/Basics/chemlist.htm

Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment-US National Research Council
http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/Consensus/nrc.htm

New studies link prostate cancer and asthma to exposure to tiny amounts of pollutants.
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=07-P13-00015&segmentID=3

An Extensive New Literature Concerning Low-Dose Effects of Bisphenol A Shows the Need for a New Risk Assessment
http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2005/7713/abstract.html

An Unusual Case of Organophosphate Intoxication of a Worker in a Plastic Bottle Recycling Plant: An Important Reminder

http://www.ehponline.org/members/2000/108p1103-1105wang/wang-full.html

Estrogens in Unexpected Places: Possible Implications for Researchers and Consumers
http://www.ehponline.org/members/1995/Suppl-7/feldman-full.html

Nurses: Taking Precautionary Action on a Pediatric Environmental Exposure: DEHP
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/525645

Do plastics trigger lupus?
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/538287

Glass baby bottles making comeback
Stores selling out after health alarms raised about plastics
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/09/BOTTLES.TMP

HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS IN SYNTHETIC TURF:
http://www.precaution.org/lib/07/prn_dhn070412.htm