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Toxic Chemicals
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Sort results by: Date Added | Alphabetically - Depending on a person's genetic makeup, immune system and tolerance levels, as-well-as the level of toxicity and time of exposure, a person can become chemically sensitive and begin to experience signs of deteriorating health.
- Though this is an older study, it highlights important considerations for those of us who spend much time in cars...
- Searchable databases on chemical toxicity and exposure data are now available for scientists and the public.
- Tests reveal that retinyl palmitate, a form of vitamin A found in 2/5th's of U.S. sunscreens, speeds the development of skin tumors when applied to the skin in the presence of sunlight.
- How to get those bothersome "new clothing" odors and chemicals out of your clothes.
- Pesticides can be serious pollutants, and are found in surprising places. Here are tips for less toxic alternatives.
- Biomonitoring, the measurement of chemicals in blood, urine, and other tissues or fluids, is becoming an increasingly common tool in the study of human exposure to environmental chemicals; the problem is, it\'s hard to connect with health outcomes (abstract only).
- Although scientists have postulated a wide range of adverse human health effects of exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), the nexus of the debate is the concern that prenatal and childhood exposure to EDCs may be responsible for a variety of abnormalities in human sexuality, gender development and behaviors, reproductive capabilities, and sex ratios.
- How to make your home a healthier place.
- A major study published in Human Reproduction (January 2009), a European reproductive medicine journal, has found that pregnant women and women of child-bearing age in the United States are at greater risk than previously thought for infertility and reproductive problems as result of exposure to the toxic Teflon chemical PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid).
- The organic food market slows amid recession, consumer doubt.
- While many people enjoy wearing perfumes and using scented products, there is a growing outcry from some people who claim exposure to certain fragrances, including perfumes and scented products, adversely impacts their health.
- Chemicals not listed on product labels due to weak regulatory standards.
- If we still rode horses every day, we’d never have a barn attached to the house because the animal odors would be objectionable. Yet houses routinely have an attached garage which contains much more unhealthy odors.
- The laws protecting citizens from potentially dangerous cleaning and personal-care products remain absent, minimal, or rarely enforced.
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should examine whether combined exposures to chemicals known as phthalates could cause adverse health effects in humans, says a new report from the National Research Council.
- EPA\'s Energy Star program now addresses indoor air quality (IAQ). Here is a summary of requirements you can use to improve your home\'s IAQ.
- Green Seal has developed the GS-49 standard to define environmental performance criteria for residential cleaning services.
- The most important step to take in building or remodeling a house is to eliminate toxic materials as often as possible.
- EPA has added an indoor air quality component to the already well-known Energy Star program—the Energy Star Indoor Air Package (IAP).
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