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$150M toxic chemicals lab to be unveiled soon

5 toxics that are everywhere: Protect yourself

4 chemicals used in consumer products slapped with toxic label  

30 'New' Toxic Chemicals to Avoid

32 Toxic Chemicals in 10 Minority Babies  

AG to probe BP chemical release

AP IMPACT: Chinese drywall poses potential risks    

A methodology for the evaluation of the health related and environmental characteristics of building products

A new source of dioxins: Clean hands

A practical guide to removing toxins from the body

A Preemptive Strike Against Toxic Chemicals

Activists want makers to come clean on cleansers

Adsorption and inhibition of acetylcholinesterase by different nanoparticles

Aggregation and toxicology of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles

Airborne exposure to chemical substances in hairdresser salons.

Aluminium and zinc phosphide poisoning.

American Greetings Corp. Recalls Confetti Bursts Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard

Antimicrobial products in textile industry

Appearance of chemical burns resulting from the washing of a deceased body with bleach.

Are our playgrounds and parking lots safe?

Are some chemicals more dangerous at low doses?  

Are you walking on 120 chemicals

Area's kids in major study County children, mothers to be enlisted for nationwide look at environmental effects on health.

Arsenic exposure aids the swine flu virus

Asbestos emergency issued — for entire town

Asbestos turns up in toys, children's clay

Assessing developmental toxicant exposures via biomonitoring

Assessing hazardous risks of human exposure to temple airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.  

AstroTurf to eliminate lead from fields

Athletes kick up hidden toxic chemicals from artificial turf.

BP Continues to Use Surface Dispersants in Gulf Despite EPA Directive

BPA leaches from safe products.

Background levels of key biomarkers of chemical exposure within the UK general population - Pilot study.

Bayer Chemicals Were 'Hazardous'

Beware Dangers in Teflon and Non-Stick Cookware

Beware of over-the-counter flea treatments

Bill calls for dangerous chemical labels in Ont.

Biochip mimics the body to reveal toxicity of industrial compounds

Biocides in Plastics - From Preservation to Hygiene Control

Biomarkers in Toxicology and Risk Assessment: Informing Critical Dose-Response Relationships

Bisphenol A at Environmentally Relevant Doses Inhibits Adiponectin Release from Human Adipose Tissue Explants and Adipocytes

Bisphenol A can alter genes, study findsBlood mercury levels rising among U.S. women

Body Position-Dependent Shift in Odor Percept Present Only for Perithreshold Odors

Border Agents to Dump Agent Orange-Like Chemical to Kill All Plant Life Among U.S.-Mexico Border

Brominated Flame Retardants

CDC Finds 97 Percent of Americans Contaminated by Sunscreens

California Department of Toxic Substances Control Biomonitoring Symposium Presents New Trends

California unveils new goal for controversial carcinogen in water

Can that 'new car smell' be harmful?  

Can we protect kids from the toxic trappings of modern life?

Canada first to label bisphenol A as officially dangerous

Canada Takes More Action To Protect Human Health And The Environment Under World Leading Chemicals Management Plan

Canada to pull plug on ‘rubber duck' chemicals

Carcinogenesis studies of benzophenone in rats and mice.

Celebrating Victory Against Harmful Work Conditions at Nail Salons:

Chemical allergens--what are the issues?

Chemical carcinogenesis.

Chemical Contaminants and Human Disease: A Summary of Evidence

Chemical exposure may hurt babies later in life. Substances could affect organs, open door to diseases

CHEMICAL FALLOUT: A JOURNAL SENTINEL WATCHDOG REPORT

Chemical imbalance: From car seats to condoms, nasty compounds have invaded our lives

Chemical in baby bottles 'raises risk of heart disease'

Chemical Pollutants Linked to Fewer Female Births

Chemicals and our Health

Chemicals and the World's Expanding Waistline   

Chemicals in Everyday Items Linked to Infertility

Chemical in paint may play role in promoting obesity.

Chemical Industry Archives-from the EWG

Chemical industry cautious about Obama presidency

'Chemical robots' swarm together  

Chemical Stops Breasts from Growing Bigger Study: Dioxin pollution may explain why as many as 6 million women can't breast-feed their babies. Learn how to avoid dioxins in your diet.

Chemicals may cause range of health ailments

Chemicals Meant To Break Up BP Oil Spill Present New Environmental Concerns

Chemicals Ottawa's watching: The feds take a closer look at 17 substances

Chemicals used as fire retardants could be harmful, UC-Riverside researchers say

Children in Katrina trailers may face lifelong ailments

Children's diseases linked to chemicals on rise, professor says

Chinese Drywall fears widen in SW Florida

Chlorine Can React With Sweat, Urine At Indoor Swimming Pools forming Volatile Disinfection Byproducts

Classes canceled as fumes probed

Coatings Company Shellacked for Not Reporting Toxic Chemicals

Common Dry Cleaning Chemicals Pose a Cancer Risk

Community level exposure to chemicals and oxidative stress in adult population.

Consumer products could be major C8 source, study says

Contact allergens and irritants in household washing and cleaning products.

Contaminated Education? Toxic Schools and the Leasing Loophole

Contaminants in Human Milk: Weighing the Risks against the Benefits of Breastfeeding

Coping with a toxic world

County Corner: San Francisco Medical Society

Critic calls methyl iodide unsafe for use in the state

Critics call Valdez cleanup a warning for Gulf workers

Determination of total and free mono-n-butyl phthalate in human urine samples after medication of a di-n-butyl phthalate containing capsule

Diesel Exhaust Impairs Blood Flow to Marrow

Dinged By Dryer Sheets

Dioxin Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease An Analysis of Association

Dioxin exposure in the womb, extra weight add up to health problems.

Dioxins and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality.

Discontinued flame retardant detected in baby products and house dust

Disinfecting could make you sick 

Dogs and Cats Contaminated with Toxic Synthetic Chemicals, Just Like Humans

Doing more harm than good-10 products to avoid  

Don’t Offend Others With Second-Hand Chemicals

Dozens sickened in Japan after suicide

Drywall From China Causes Concern Over Sulfur Odor In Homes

DuPont danger was hidden away  

Dust from U.K. primary school classrooms and daycare centers: The significance of dust as a pathway of exposure of young U.K. children to brominated flame retardants and polychlorinated biphenyls

EPA Chief Calls for More Authority Over Dispersants

EPA Response to BP Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Effects of flame retardants on children’s development unclear.

Effect of Probiotics, Bifidobacterium breve and Lactobacillus casei, on Bisphenol A Exposure in Rats.

Electrochemical Sensors for the Detection of Lead and Other Toxic Heavy Metals: The Next Generation of Personal Exposure Biomonitors

Electronic nose sniffs out toxins

Emerging Science Note/Portable Toxic Testing

Endocrine disruptive effects of chemicals eluted from nitrile-butadiene rubber gloves using reporter gene assay systems

Enduring War and 'Witch's Brew of Toxic Chemicals'  

Environmental exposures and gene regulation in disease etilogy.

Environmental Group Reveals Toxic Chemicals in a Range of Consumer Items

Environmental hazards: evidence for effects on children

EPA has few answers on PFOAs

Ergon Energy uniforms 'making workers sick'

Evaluation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from household products by small chamber test method

Evaluating Sensitization of Chemical Substances

Experiences of problems in individuals with hypersensitivity to odours and chemicals  

Experiment in Treatment Seeks to Remove Toxins

Expert questions gas-drilling chemicals

Experts urge US safety probe of plastics chemicals 

Fabric Softener Toxic; Natural Alternatives  

Family blames toxic site for illness

Female fetuses are sensitive to hormone disrupters

Female Veterinarians more likely than others to miscarry

Fire retardants and baby products: This isn't kid stuff

Flame retardant creates hyperactive mice.

Fight Grows Over Labels on Household Cleaners

Fire retardants linked with health problems

Flame retardants are seeping from research bases into Antarctica's pristine environment

Flame Retardants: Dangerous chemical now in breast milk

Flame retarding chemicals pollute fetal tissue

Freon Free

GM Plans ‘Garage Sale’ for Toxic Plants, Golf Course

Gender-bender chemicals 'putting everyone at risk'

Going chemical-free in your clothing is getting easier

Gov't studies playground risks

Group warns vs toxic chemicals in plastic shoes

Groups seek ban on cleaning chemicals. The products, used in detergents, are linked to gender changes in fish.

Hampton woman fights children's exposure to toxins.

Harmful chemical wafts off your TV

Have you had a dose of toxins today?

Hazardous or Not, Vinyl Shares Lead's Taint

Heavy Metal Toxicity

Heavy metals raise risk of penis defects

Hello baby, goodbye chemicals

High Levels of Toxic Industrial Chemicals Contaminate Cats And Dogs  (scroll down their web page)

High school may have toxins in windows

Hospital-Clean Hands, Without All the Scrubbing

Hospitals move to phase out chemical -USATODAY.com

Household chemicals, persistent wheezing and lung function: Effect modification by atopy?

Household Exposure to Toxic Chemicals Lurks Unrecognized, Researchers Find.

Household toxins: Toying with our safety

How toxic is your new car?

Human reactions to low concentrations of volatile organic compounds

Hunting for engineered nanomaterials in the environment

Hyperactive Ingredients?

IV tube chemical linked to preemie liver woes

In fake grass, some see real threat

Incautious approval of germ killer?

India's Deadly Chemical Addiction

Indoor volatile organic compounds: concentrations, sources, variation factors.

Industry fights effort to ban chemical in baby products

Inhalation challenge test in the diagnosis of occupational rhinitis

Inhaling Pig Brains May Be Cause of New Illness

Interactions between alcohol and work exposure to chemical substances

International Chemical Secretariat

Intoxication with phenol & correction with the liquid oxygen

In vitro models for the assessment of inflammatory and immuno-modulatory effects of the volatile organic compound chlorobenzene.

In vitro penetration and subchronic toxicity of alpha-methyl-1,3-benzodioxole-5-propionaldehyde.

Inter-individual susceptibility to environmental toxicants--a current assessment.

In Toys and More, Are Chemicals Safe or Harmful?

Is your baby's car seat made with lead?

Is your father to blame for your medical problems?  Dad's Hidden Influence: A father's legacy to a child's health may start before conception and last generations

Is your playground toxic

Killer cribs

Laundry Blog: Detergent Labeling Legislation

Laundry detergent and possible nonaccidental injury

Lead found in artificial turf at 2 prep stadiums 

Lead, arsenic found in products from handbags to car seats

Lead free?  Facets are anything but.

Lead is in Everyday Products

Lifting the "Body Burden": How to Fight Toxic Exposure and Keep Chemicals Out of Your Home

Low Doses of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Impair Glucagon-Releasing Alpha Cells

Male birth death persists on Ontario Reserve

Many common household products contain compounds that could be affecting our health

Maryland may not meet its deadline for reducing childhood lead poisoning

Measuring Toxic Chemicals in People and Wildlife

Medical study finds PCBs problems in east Alabama city

Mercury in the Great Salt Lake is studied

Methane in Gulf 'astonishingly high'-US scientist

Methyl iodide saga continues.

Methylmercury Warning

Mink more sensitive than rats to fire retardant chemicals  

Minorities underrepresented in EPA outreach on Dow dioxin

Monsanto knew paint was harmful

More U.S. retailers give BPA the boot

Myriad chemicals enter environment

NTP NOMINATION OF SILICOFLUORIDES FOR STUDY  

NY scientists to study affect of everyday toxins

Nanoparticle-Induced Oxidative Damage to DNA in Rats Exposed by Oral Gavage

NANOTECH: THE UNKNOWN RISKS

Nanotechnology: Tiny Particles Raise Big Concerns

Nerve conduction, visual evoked responses and electroretinography in tunnel workers previously exposed to acrylamide and N-methylolacrylamide containing grouting agents

New tests find unsafe levels of toxic PCBs in 2 local rivers

New study on flame retardants in children

Newborn girls, boys behavior differs after prenatal phthalate exposure.

Newspapers and Newspaper Ink Contain Agonists for the Ah Receptor

Nurses' Health and Workplace Exposures to Hazardous Substances

Officials knew for decades that Scofieldtown park was contaminated

Ortho-Phthalaldehyde Exposure Levels Among Endoscope Disinfection Workers.

Other Problem Plastics: Bisphenol A Isn't the Only Concern

Ottawa prepared to slap toxic label on widely used chemicals

Ottawa suggests adding chemical to toxic list  

Outing the Toxics in Our High Chairs

PCB-containing wood floor finish is a likely source of elevated PCBs in residents' blood, household air and dust: a case study of exposure

Parents banning common products from homes over contamination fears

Parents Warned Camphor Can Be Toxic to Children

Parkersburg-area residents record high levels of C8, a DuPont chemical, in blood

Patch testing experience with 1000 patients

PCB 77 Promotes Obesity-associated Atherosclerosis

PCB-containing wood floor finish is a likely source of elevated PCBs in residents' blood, household air and dust

Perchlorate and iodine: a novel focus on newborns

Perinatal dioxin exposure in The Netherlands – a long-term follow-up

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Africa: Egyptian scenario.

PFOA slows breast development in mice exposed via mom.

Phthalate exposure among pregnant women in Jerusalem, Israel: Results of a pilot study

Phthalates and Cumulative Risk Assessment; The Task Ahead -Committee on the Health Risks of Phthalates, National Research Council 

Phthalates: Are They Safe?

Phthalates may soften, weaken bones.  

Phthalates predispose mice to allergies.

Photocopy machines and occupational antiphospholipid syndrome

Pilot Study of Urinary Biomarkers of Phytoestrogens, Phthalates, and Phenols in Girls

Placental Transfer of Conjugated Bisphenol A and Subsequent Reactivation in the Rat Fetus

Plastic additives leach into medical experiments, research shows.

Plastic chemicals 'feminise boys'

Poison found in kids' clothes from China

Poisoned baby breastfeeding?

Poisoned Profits- "definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease and death...an eye-opening account of a country that prizes money over children’s health" Book

Pollutants in breast milk may fluctuate during nursing.

Pollution remains in Parliament Carpet

Polychlorinated Biphenyl-77 Induces Adipocyte Differentiation and Proinflammatory Adipokines and Promotes Obesity and Atherosclerosis

Polyester:  Man Made Menace

POPs blood levels down in a sample of pregnant US women.

Popular home remedies contain lead

Potential allergy and irritation incidents among health care workers.

Progress against toxins in toys takes small steps

Proof is in the poison: PCB toxins are hazardous to humans

Protect yourself from your home's most toxic places

Protecting Kids from Toxic Chemicals: Toxic substances are lurking where you least expect them.

Protest against toxic dangers

Publications on Silicofluorides, Neurotoxicity, and Behavior

Pulmonary effects of inhaled limonene ozone reaction products in elderly rats.

Purses, wallets have too much lead, environment group says  

Push is on to speed phaseout of flame retardant

RC Chemicals with Rat LD50 Values

Reach Chemicals List

REGIONAL: STUDY: SOME CHILDREN'S CAR SEATS CONTAIN POTENTIALLY  TOXIC CHEMICALS

Research links common chemicals to obesity

Responses to odors in occupational environments.

Revolutionary laundry soap product grows on trees 

Risk of Erectile Dysfunction Induced by Arsenic Exposure through Well Water Consumption in Taiwan

Romantic intentions could inadvertently spark migraine on Valentine's Day  

Rubber alchemy from bankruptcy, tires

S.F. takes green issue to dry cleaners

Scented Ceiling Paints-Dutch Boy

School gives chronically ill students a chance

Schools should test for PCBs in brittle caulking says EPA

Schoolchildren at risk from toxic chemical dust on whiteboards, scientists warn

Scientists try to find benefits, risks of nanoparticles

Seeking Chemical Culprits for Those Deformities

Short-chain chlorinated paraffin chemicals have become EPA priority

Six Environmental Research Studies Reveal Critical Health Risks From Plastic

Skin sensitization in chemical risk assessment: report of a WHO/IPCS international workshop focusing on dose-response assessment.

Smelly sock treatment leaks silver nanoparticles

Sofa is blamed for heart failure

Solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography

Southern California Metropolitan Water District Begins Poisoning Millions with Toxic Synthetic Fluoride Chemicals

Special Report: Toxic Neighbors

Stain repellents linked to low birth weight and premature births.

State to study artificial turf

State working on perchlorate limit

States crack down on chemicals

Steinemann - Toxic Chemicals In Scented Laundry Detergent And Fabric Softener And Health Hazards

Studies on Chemical In Plastics Questioned: Congress Examines Role Of Industry in Regulation

Study: Are artificial turf fields safe?

Study Indicates That Moth Repellents Persist in Clothing Even After Airing

Study predicts BPA in babies 11 times higher than adults.  

Study shows everyday items expose all of us to pollutants

Study Shows Trees May Bring Allergy Symptoms Along With Holiday Cheer

Sulfate/Brucine, and Denatonium Benzoate.

Super-Toxic Cocktails  

Surrounded By Plastic, NICU Infants Tested For Risk   

Suspended Animation' Induced In Mice With Sewer Gas: Effects Are Reversible

Swimmers' Sunscreen Killing Off Coral

Taking Showers Could Contaminate Drinking Water

Tests reveal chemical vapors that may invade homes

Tetrachloroethylene exposure and risk of schizophrenia: offspring of dry cleaners in a population birth cohort, preliminary finding

The 6+ Synthetic Fabrics You Most Want to Avoid, and Why

The Battle to Ban Toxic Toys

The Behavior of Silver Nanotextiles during Washing

The complexities of greening your lawn

The deadly chemistry of profit

The Dirty Truth About Plastic

The Faroes Statement:  Human health effects of developmental exposure to environmental toxicants

The Fluoride Deception

The Global Portal to Information on Chemical Substances

The good, the bad, and the volatile: Can we have both healthy pools and healthy people?

The Great Unknowns In Household Cleaners

The influence of age and gender on triclosan concentrations in Australian human blood serum.

THE LINK BETWEEN TOXIC CHEMICALS AND GLOBAL WARMING

'The myth of the chemical cure' 

The poison crib: When protective chemicals harm

The protective mechanism of antioxidants in cadmium-induced ototoxicity in vitro and in vivo.

The Role of Exposure to Phthalates from Polyvinyl Chloride Products in the Development of Asthma and Allergies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

The same chemical additives that cause hyperactivity in children show up in pets.

The Stuffing Dreams Are Made Of?      

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Strategic Plan for Evaluating the Toxicity of Chemicals

The top 10 industries ranked highest for producing toxic chemicals

The toxicity data landscape for environmental chemicals

The Weight of the World Exposure to chemicals could contribute to obesity, studies find

This baby was burned red raw by a sofa giving off toxic fumes.

Tiny amounts of phthalate ester worsen atopic dermatitis

Toddlers absorb more toxic chemicals than mothers

Thousands of consumer products found to contain low levels of radiation

Toward a cleaner, more effective method for destroying hormone-like pollutants in wastewater

Toward a global network for persistent organic pollutants in air: results from the GAPS study.

Towns question fluoride use

Toxic Bodies

Toxic Body Burden

Toxic Chemicals Are Maiming Thousands Around the World

Toxic Chemical Lobby: Exclusive Leaked Footage

Toxic chemicals lurk in school supplies

Toxic Chemicals Release Report Shows Mercury, PCB Pollution Rise Dramatically

Toxic Compounds in Toddlers & Preschoolers 3x Higher Than in Moms

Toxic Gas in Gulf

Toxic Trailers Redux: When Did FEMA Know?

Toxic Turf?

Toxic-Waste Sites Haunt Silicon Valley

Toxicity in FEMA Trailers Blamed on Cheap Materials, Low Construction Standards

Toxicology of 1,3-butadiene, chloroprene, and isoprene

Toxicity of Organotin Tied to Proteasome Interference

Toxins cause defects for future generations

Transfer of Bisphenol A across the human placenta

Triclosan

Triclosan included in NGO's chemical risk list

Truckee, California and Katrina is there a connection?

Two 3M chemicals hazardous, state says  

U.S. Urges Homeowners to Remove Chinese Drywall

UNDIAGNOSED NEUROLOGIC SYNDROME, PORCINE PLANT WORKERS

Unmasking the Coalition for Chemical Safety

Vietnam, US Set New Tone on Dioxin War Legacy

Volatile disinfection byproducts from organic nitrogen precursors add to the list of chemicals found in chlorinated swimming pools.

Volatile pollutants emitted from selected liquid household products.

Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Now Dead

Wash. compiling top 50 chemicals toxic to kids

We're in chemical overload

Whats behind that wrinkle free finish

What’s Lurking in Your Countertop?

What's under your sink?  Potential hazards of home cleaning products.

When the Hospital Makes You Sick

Whitewashing Toxic Chemicals

Why the Adage 'the Dose Makes the Poison' Can Be Toxic to Corporate Chemicals Policy

WILL EUROPE'S NEW CHEMICALS POLICY BRING PRECAUTION TO THE WORLD?

Wood Floor Finishes Contaminated with Toxic PCB Chemicals

You Can Avoid Hazardous Chemicals