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Our Stolen Future: Effects on disease resistance
This new research hints at important new links between endocrine disruption and cancer as well as to diabetes. More... A Dutch study indicates that PCB and dioxin contamination ...
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Our Stolen Future: Background exposures to PCBs impair immune system function
PCB and dioxin contamination in maternal and cord blood and in the breast milk of mothers breastfeeding their infants. They followed examined the health status of the infants during early childhood. And at ... of background PCB levels. The fact that there are health consequences of PCB contamination instead means, according to Weisglas-Kuperus et al., that "perinatal exposure to PCBs, dioxins, and ...
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COPA - PCBs and Superfund in Bloomington, Indiana
They were victims of the world's first-and most serious-food-poisoning case involving polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB). Toshizo and Takiko, ... oil-poisoning case is one example of a serious dioxin contamination, the victims represent a valuable source for study," he said. "Contamination by dioxin in small doses has become a global problem ...
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COPA - PCBs and Superfund in Bloomington, Indiana
Earlier last year, a warning was issued about dioxin contamination in the blue claw crab. "It shows that we're ... summer flounder, squid, and whiting. He said the state's warning ignored the fact that the actual levels of PCB contamination in many New ... but said PCB contamination should be more aggressively attacked. "The story within the story is that while it's fine and impressive 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 ( ... widespread phthalate contamination in Americans. Among the highest concentrations were observed in women of child-bearing age. More... According to data released in July 2000, concentrations of PCB and PCB-related ...
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Fishing in Wisconsin and the Great Lakes
Lake Trout, may have gone extinct in some of the Great Lakes because of dioxin and PCB contamination, which injures or kills newly hatched Trout fry. More than a dozen species of ... Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR) is responsible for managing Wisconsin's fisheries and hatcheries, and enforcing fishing regulations and commercial harvest permits. The fisheries program is funded partly through fishing ...
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CWAC News June 2003
Ignores Paper Sludge and Sediment For years I pestered the DNR to provide the committee more detail about statewide PCB contamination in paper sludges and harbor ... for Federal Rule The DNR says they’re waiting for the federal EPA to propose dioxin landspreading rules sometime next year, but many toxic PCBs do not behave like dioxins. Also ...
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Environmental Progress | Earth Day | US EPA
Canada. 1982 Congress enacts laws for safe disposal of nuclear waste. 1982 Dioxin contamination forces the government to purchase homes in Times Beach, Missouri. The federal government and the responsible polluters share the cleanup costs. 1982 A PCB landfill protest ...
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The University of West Florida studied dioxin/ PCB and heavy metal contamination in blue crabs from Perdido Bay several years ago. While ... dioxin since they burn wood to generate power at the mill.             Much of the mercury and arsenic contamination in the fish comes from the burning of coal. IP and especially Gulf Power use a ...
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International Projects Egg Report
Global Egg Sampling Project: Toxic Contamination of Free-Range Eggs in 17 Countries The first study looked for dioxin, furan, PCB, and HCB contamination in free-range chicken eggs in 17 countries on five continents. The chemicals included in this study are earmarked for minimization and elimination by the Stockholm Convention and ...
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