RESOURCES

FREE Materials for you:The EPA’s online booklet: "The Inside Story: A Guide to Indoor Air Quality" http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/insidest.html

To obtain a pamphlet containing more household products and their associated risks, or for more information about hazardous household products or about indoor air pollution in general, contact your local American Lung Association. Call 1-800-LUNG-USA (1-800-586-4872).

Free Poison Prevention Community Action Kit from the National Safety Council: http://www.nsc.org/issues/poison/index.htm

Environmental Defense Organization www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/

US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npg.html

New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services  www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/rtkhsfs.htm

 National Library of Medicine
http:/www.nlm.nih.gov

 US National Safety Council, Environmental Health Center (EHC)
http://www.nsc.org/ehc/chemical.htm

 Vermont Safety Information Resources Inc (SIRI)
http://www.hazard.com/msds/

 Vermont Safety Informaton Resources Inc (SIRI) - extensive list of links to sites with information from MSDS sheets and hazardous chemical information  http://www.hazard.com/msds/links.html

Agency for Toxic substances and Disease Registry, Center for Disease Control, US Government   http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html

Environmental Health Perspectives [EHP], National Institute of Environmental Health Science. http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/admin/openaccess.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

 Cancer Prevention Coalition - www.preventcancer.com 

Poisoned Cosmetics, Not Too Pretty- www.nottoopretty.org 

 Cleaners and Toxins, Labour Environmental Alliance Society, Vancouver BC

 The United States of America Federal Code of Regulations exempts manufacturers from full labeling of products if used for personal, family or household care. [USA FCR: Section 1910.1200C, Title 29, Section 1500.82 2Q1A and State of Massachusetts Study 1989

 National Safety Council

 United States House of Representatives Report through NIOSH, 1989

 Indoor Air Quality Act of 1989 -  Environmental Protection Agency

 Toronto Indoor Air Conference of 1990 from a 15+ year study

 Study by Dr. Dick Irwin, Toxicologist, Texas A&M University

 Study by Dr. Lee Davis, former advisor to the Secretary of Health

 Environmental Health Perspectives 106 Supplement 3:787-794 (June 1998)

 Herbert L. Needleman, M.D., Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., Raising Children Toxic Free

 Environmental Policy and Children’s Health, Future of Children, Summer/Fall 1995; 5(2): 34-52

 Guide to Hazardous Products Around the Home, Household Hazardous Waste Project, 1989

 Journal of the National Cancer Institute -

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/02/Aug02/080602/98f-0052-sup0014-vol5.txt and http://www.epa.gov/iaq/formalde.html for more info on formaldehyde

 Take a virtual home tour with the EPA: http://www.epa.gov/kidshometour/

National Cancer Institute (NCI). http://www.cancer.gov/

National Cancer Institute SEER site (for stats on cancer) http://seer.cancer.gov

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1997, Facts on Lead, http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/guide/1997/docs/factlead.htm

Environmental Working Group article “Are We Poisoning Our Kids?” http://www.ewg.org/news/story.php?id=3426

Environmental Working Group (EWG) (Chemical Industry Archives Project) http://www.chemicalindustryarchives.org/factfiction/

American Lung Association http://www.lungusa.org

American Lung Assoc article Indoor Air Pollution facts http://www.lungusa.org/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=34706&ct=142852

Chemicals found in fabric softeners, by the EPA http://www.immuneweb.org/articles/fabricsoftener.html

OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (US Department of Labor group) http://osha.gov/

Department of Health and Human Services (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)  http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov

Department of Health and Human Services (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) article on Formaldehyde   http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/MHMI/mmg111.html

Department of Health and Human Services (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) article on Ammonia
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/MHMI/mmg126.html

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  http://www.fda.gov/

FDA authority over cosmetics; Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Cosmetics Fact Sheet, February 3, 1995.
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-206.html

Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov

The Inside Story: A Guide to Indoor Air Quality: http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/insidest.html

Environmental Protection Agency Chemical Fact Sheets  http://www.epa.gov/chemfact/

American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp

Children’s Health Environmental Coalition http://www.checblog.org/

Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) http://www.chej.org/

Health and Environment Resource Center (HERC) www.herc.org

Household Products Database: The National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine’s extensive database of harmful chemicals in cleaning and health products. http://hpd.nlm. nih.gov/

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC): Article “IARC Classifies Formaldehyde as Carcinogenic to Humans”
http://www.iarc.fr/ENG/Press_Releases/archives/pr153a.html

Info on Asthma from the American Lung Assoc: http://www.alaw.org/asthma/asthma_handbook/triggers_know_your_troublemakers.html#2

The National Safety Council definition of warning label terms: http://www.nsc.org/issues/poison/terms.htm

Mercury in household products: http://www.tacanow.com/containingmercury.htm

In Harm’s Way - http://psr.igc.org/ihwrept/ihwcomplete.pdf

Chemical Education Foundation: http://www.chemed.org/

Pesticide facts: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/RATE/pestfact.html

ABC News Report: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1928890&page=1

The CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/fil es/home/cleaners/

CNN on toxins in autos:  http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/01/31/toxic_cars/index.html

ABC News _Toxic Schools: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AmericanFamily/story?id=1200774&page=1

EWG: Body Burden: http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/

NBC: Housework could be making women sick: http://www.nbc5i.com/health/1836736/detail.html

“Not Under My Roof” - Article with Kelly Preston and Olivia Newton-John: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1594/is_5_12/ai_77749309
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