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Our Stolen Future: New scientific findings about endocrine disruption
Seveso, Italy: breast cancer risk rises with dioxin exposure Dioxin-like compounds decrease the likelihood of fathering male offspring Are sperm declines ... behavior Disease resistance Human impacts Low dose effects Mixtures and synergy Ubiquity of exposure Natural vs. synthetic New exposures Reproduction Wildlife impacts Recent Important Results Consensus ...
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EHP: Volume 105(2) February 1997
A Retrospective Performance Assessment of the ... Makris SL, et al. DDT Exposure of Zebrafish Embryos Enhances Sei... Tiedeken JA, et al. Hydroxylated Metabolites of ... Support System John Cairns, Jr. P. 160 Correspondence Reproductive Effects of Male Dioxin Exposure . . .Response . . . Mutagenic Carcinogens and Noncarcinogens in Transgenic Mice . . . Response P. 162 Commentary ...
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CSWAB: Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger
The developing fetus, infants, and children are the population groups most vulnerable to exposure. Exposure may impede the development of their brains, reproductive, immune, and endocrine systems. ... Environmental Protection Agency, over 96 percent of our dioxin exposure comes from eating meat, dairy products, eggs and fish. Dioxin particles from incinerators and industrial plants travel far and ...
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CSWAB: Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger
The developing fetus, infants and children are the population groups most vulnerable to PCB and dioxin exposure. Exposure of fetuses and children may impede the development of their brains, reproductive, immune and ... infant through breast feeding. “There is no safe level of exposure when it comes to dioxins,” deFur said. “The exposure to workers and nearby families should be zero.” EPA officials ...
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GLOBAL RESPONSE ACTION UPDATE, OCTOBER 1997
Protection Agency documents the connection between dioxin exposure and cancer, birth defects, endometriosis, reduced sperm count and decreased testes size. Dioxin exposure also damages the immune system, leading ... into humans? According to the EPA, 90 percent of human exposure to dioxin is through eating dioxin-contaminated food. How does our food become contaminated? The incineration ...
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Dioxin
More than 90% of our dioxin exposure comes through the food supply - particularly through fish, meats, and dairy products. Dioxin Impacts Our Women, Elderly, and Children In many ... spiritual value that is part of traditional teachings. Dioxin also impacts the reproductive systems of men lowering sperm count. Other Impacts Exposure during fetal or infant development can lead ...
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dioxin
The report also projects risks from dioxin exposure that are about 10 times as high as previous estimates. Although there are some natural sources of dioxin, most dioxin ... says. Exposure to low amounts of the chemical have been linked to developmental and hormonal problems, particularly in children, who may ingest dioxin in breast milk. EPA's dioxin reassessment was ...
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MapCruzin - Petition approved to add dioxin to TRI
A 1994 EPA draft health assessment concluded that dioxin levels already present in the average American's body are ... Oil Refinery Action Network presented new findings that refineries are a dioxin source during the Citizens Conference on Dioxin in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in March, 1996. At that time, 350 ...
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Mercury Policy Project
ATSDR's Toxicological Profile will undermine efforts to regulate mercury emissions and reduce exposure to this dangerous neurotoxin. * Congress specifically directed the National Academy of Sciences to ... mercury emissions are also sources of other dangerous persistent, bioaccumulative toxins, such as dioxin, furans, and PCBs. Efforts which undermine controls of mercury also undermine efforts to ...
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Our Stolen Future: Exposure is ubiquitous
Commission for Environmental Cooperation, scientists from Queens University, New York, trace the pathway of dioxin falling on arctic Canada back to its sources. Most comes from the US ( ... Brain & behavior Disease resistance Human impacts Low dose effects Mixtures and synergy Ubiquity of exposure Natural vs. synthetic New exposures Reproduction Wildlife impacts Recent Important Results Consensus News/ ...
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