Blog post by John Jackson, CELA Board Member on December 17, 2014 I suspect that most of you have heard by now that Theo Colborn died on Sunday at the age of 87. The book that she co-authored, Our Stolen Future, awoke…
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Tag: endocrine disruption
Blog: Antibacterial Chemicals are Polluting Our Waterways
Blog posted by Bev Thorpe, Clean Production Action on August 5, 2014 Most people are unaware of how widespread triclosan and triclocarban chemicals are in their daily lives. Many products labelled as ‘antibacterial’, ‘fights odours’ or ‘kills germs’ may contain triclosan or…
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Chemicals in Consumer Products are Draining Trouble into the Great Lakes Ecosystem GreenScreen® Assessment Shows Triclosan and Triclocarban Should be Avoided
Title: Chemicals in Consumer Products are Draining Trouble into the Great Lakes Ecosystem GreenScreen® Assessment Shows Triclosan and Triclocarban Should be Avoided Resource Type: Report Content: TC-TCC-CELA-997_0 # of Pages: 16 Date authored: July 2014 Publication number: 997 Author/s: Bev…
Antibacterial Chemicals – Triclosan and Triclocarban (backgrounder) Green Screen® Assessments Show Why They Should be Prohibited in Consumer Products
Title: Antibacterial Chemicals - Triclosan and Triclocarban (backgrounder) Green Screen® Assessments Show Why They Should be Prohibited in Consumer Products Content: TC-TCC-summary-of-997 # of Pages: 2 Date authored: July 2014 Author/s: Bev Thorpe, Fe de Leon, Kathleen Cooper Author Organization:…
Early Environmental Exposures to Hazardous Pollutants/Chemicals and their Associations with Chronic Disease – Policy Implications
Part 3 in this series summarizes the challenges that exist in evaluating scientific evidence of associations between chemical exposures and health outcomes, particularly for endocrine disrupting chemicals and related challenges to existing regulatory approaches.
Early Environmental Exposures to Hazardous Pollutants/Chemicals and their Associations with Chronic Disease – Focus on Endocrine Disruption and Obesogens
Part 2 in this series recaps the main findings of the study, summarizes the epigenetic/environmental basis of disease, notes implications of endocrine disruption science, and discusses obesity risk factors in the context of emerging science on chemicals suspected as obesogens and diabetogens