A fascinating new methodology, similar to genetic searching for cause/effect risk in human disease, has shown a very positive correlation between theblood levels of POPs and diabetes.
The study is featured in Scientific American and is titled “New Mass-Screening Method Finds Additional Environmental Risks for Diabetes.”
The POPs found to correlate with diabetes are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) […]
Scan the following “Environmental Health News” article on PCB linked with attention deficit disorder and the titles below it:
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/prenatal-exposure-to-pops-linked-to-adhd-symptoms-in-kids
PCB, and other persistent organic pesticides (POPs) such as DDT, toxaphene, chlordane and Lindane are still with us and causing damage in spite of their banning decades ago.
We are spending billions to clean them up, but they […]
More and more attention is being given to the growing amount of global cancer, especially in the developing world:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/2010/02/22/Commentary-A-growing-hidden-epidemic/UPI-42871266846848/
Could it be that the decades of use of chemicals that were banned in the developing world are finally catching up with them? Pesticides such as DDT, chlordane, toxaphene, Mirex, Lindane, and Dieldrin were exported in the […]
An article describing the effect of POPs on rat’s abaility to controk insulin is found at:
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2009/0901321/0901321.pdf
This study concludes that POPs levels in the environment can well be detrimental to human health.
That’s the title of an interesting article at:
http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Environment/agriculture/pesticides_linked_to_prostate_cancer_1001100417.html
A few paragraphs give the meat of the conclusions:
The researchers found (after adjustment for other factors) serum levels of β-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), trans-nonachlor, and dieldrin were significantly associated with the risk of prevalent prostate cancer.
In comparison with those who had the lowest levels, those who were in the […]
If you read the latest press release circulating the web:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/acs-gmm102109.php
You would think that glacial melt was a significant POPs source. Those glacial lakes, just like the Arctic Ocean continue to receive POPs through the air from uses in the developing world. Let’s not get distracted. I sent the contact people the following:
Dr. Bogdal and Mr. […]
Way back in the last century, from 1972 to 1985, when governments cared more about heath protection, the developed nations of the world banned PCBs and persistent pesticides such as chlordane, toxaphene, DDT, Mirex, Lindane Aldrin, and Dieldin. When circumpolar scientists studied the devastation to Arctic wildlife and human health from these compounds, they determined […]
As the cleanup of toxic chemicals along the Fox River prepares to pause for winter, the project is ahead of schedule - but the price tag has grown.
States the article at: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/62485172.html
The article states that the Fox River supplies Lake Michigan with 620 pounds per year of PCBs … the biggest source of PCBs to […]
See this plan at: http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/epa-chemicals
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the USEPA would review the presence of DDT, toxaphene, chlordane. Aldrin, Dieldrin and the rest of the persistent organic pollutants we banned a quarter of a century ago? They are a major presence in our environment from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska. With the Lake […]
Concern over Great Lakes fish will remain even after current toxins fade:
States a article at: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090927/NEWS01/909270356/1002/NEWS
It Newsvine
New York’s advisories on consumption of Lake Ontario fish are based on chemicals that, for the most part, were banned decades ago and are increasingly rare in the
It goes on to inform us that “If current trends continue, officials […]
