Positive Associations of Serum Concentration of Polychlorinated Biphenyls or Organochlorine Pesticides with Self-reported Arthritis, Especially Rheumatoid Type, in Women reads the title of an article found in Environmental? Health Perspectives and available at http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2007/9887/abstract.html.
The quantity of research effort linking POPs to a variety of diseases continues to amaze me. When will we say […]

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That’s a question of bloggers who think that the banning of persistent organic pesticides such as DDT was a mistake ask. My answer follows.
Many people single out DDT as a unique chemical in its environmental stability, toxicity and ability to transport long distances. Unfortunately DDT had many brothers and sisters. During the 1970s and 1980s, […]

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At their biennial meeting last week, the International Joint Commission had nothing to offer for Lake Superior’s toxaphene pollution. I spoke to the problem as a question to the EPA’s presentation on the state of the lakes in the Thursday morning session and talked at the evening Town Hall. Help is needed to get more […]

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The text below was copied from an article contained in http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/3/11/144444/381. It could be titled: Why don’t researchers read research? How can people still believe that this horrendous contamination of the Arctic is coming from the US and Canada where POPs have been banned for a quarter century while Asian uses flourished!
Researchers have documented for […]

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This Thursday at 6:30 PM, the Great Lakes Town Hall forum of the IJC Meeting at the University of Chicago will receive comments from the public. I will raise the issues below and request your support. The flow of PCBs, toxaphene, chlordane, and other “banned” pesticides from foreign sources must be stopped and the truth […]

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Rachel Carson’s 100th birthday remembrance certainly brought out a diversity of viewpoints. Was she a visionary who eliminated toxic chemicals from America’s environment, or was she a crack pot whose radical actions are responsible for millions of malarial deaths?
I hope that the 200th anniversary of her birthday will put her accomplishments into proper perspective. In […]

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