Safer Product Resources
IN THIS SECTION
Contaminants in Your Neighborhood
Pesticides: Health Effects & Safer Alternatives
Toxic Chemical Exposure and Your Health
PRODUCTS FOR THE HOME
Breast Cancer Action
A resource for information on safer home, lawn, and body care products. Also contains a guide to organic food.
www.bcaction.org/Pages/GetInformed/NonToxicHome.html
Computer Take Back Campaign
Could your computer be creating toxic dust in your home?
www.computertakeback.com
Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia
Contains a guide to safer products, as well as the latest news on toxic chemicals.
www.environmentalhealth.ca
Environmental Working Group
This consumer tools database will clue you in on the safest brand of kids' sunscreen, how much tuna is safe for pregnant women, which fruits and vegetables are lowest in pesticides, and more. Also check out the site's information on the threat of arsenic in lumber.
www.ewg.org/tools
www.ewg.org/reports/poisonwoodrivals/orderform.php
www.ewg.org/tunacalculator
GoodGuide
Provides the world's largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of the products in your home.
www.goodguide.com
Green Guide: The Eco-Nomical Bedroom
A guide to safer alternatives in your bedroom including mattresses and bedding.
www.thegreenguide.com/doc/118/ecobedroom
Guide to Less Toxic Products
This online guide provides information about potential health risks of commonly
used products. It will also help you identify less toxic alternatives for personal
care, household cleaning, baby care, household pest control, and provides
information to help you evaluate products not in this guide in order to choose
the safest ones for your needs.
www.lesstoxicguide.ca
Healthy Building Network
A guide to less toxic home building materials.
www.healthybuilding.net
Institute for Children's Environmental Health
A comprehensive database of resources for less toxic living.
www.iceh.org/cgi-bin/searchresources.cgi
Learning Disabilities Association's "Clean and Green: Your Healthy Home and Family"
A guide to avoiding exposure to toxic chemicals in your home.
www.ldaofmichigan.org/healthychild.htm
Pollution Issues
From toxics in products to factory contamination to noise pollution to waste
hazards, Pollution Issues is an accessible resource on environmental health
issues in everyday life.
www.pollutionissues.co.uk
Safer Products
This website gives you a room by room collection of household products and ranks them in order of safety.
www.safer-products.org
Skin Deep - Cosmetic Safety Database
Are your makeup, lotion, and shampoo safe? Use this website to look up which body care products contain the most and least toxic ingredients.
www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep/?key=nosign
Smart Plastics Guide: Healthier Food Uses of Plastics
A guide to the ingredients in different plastic containers, some of which have harmful health effects.
www.iatp.org/iatp/search.php
Washington Toxics Coalition
A guide to safer household cleaners, art and hobby supplies, and home repair/building materials.
www.watoxics.org/homes-and-gardens
Women's Voices for the Earth's Safe Cleaning Products Initiative
Gives information on ways women can protect their health through safer products.
womenandenvironment.org
CHILDREN'S TOYS AND PRODUCTS
American Academy of Pediatrics Toy Safety Resources
Pediatricians outline ways you can make your children's toy bin safer. It includes
links on toy recalls, health effects from lead exposure, and protecting your
child from lead.
www.aap.org/new/toyrecall.htm
Childproofing our Communities Campaign
Read about ways to make homes and schools environmentally safer for children.
www.childproofing.org
HealthyCar.org: The Consumer Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Cars
HealthyCar.org Car Seat Guide is based on research conducted by the Ecology Center that looks at the presence of key hazardous chemicals in child car seats. Search our online database for the make and model of your child's car seat, and nominate testing for that seat if it's not listed.
www.healthycar.org
HealthyToys.org: The Consumer Action Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Toys
The first online database with information about toxic chemicals in children's toys! Over 1,200 toys were tested for lead, arsenic, cadmium, chlorine/PVC, and mercury. See how your children's toys measure up, and take action by contacting state and national lawmakers.
www.healthytoys.org
U.S. PIRG's Toy Safety and Dangerous Toy Lists
A helpful guide to which baby toys and products contain harmful chemicals.
babyproducts.about.com
Washington Toxics Coalition
Easy tips and information on choosing safer products and creating healthy environments
for children.
www.watoxics.org/safer-products/safe-start-for-kids
TOXICITY OF CHEMICALS
Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow
This website contains fact sheets on a number of the most toxic chemicals.
www.healthytomorrow.org/chemicals.htm
Public Health Statements - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
This website provides more thorough, but still accessible, information on known and suspected health effects of many chemicals.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phshome.html
Tox FAQs - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
This website provides a brief summary of known and suspected health effects of many chemicals.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html
Toxnet - National Institutes of Health, Toxicology Data Network
Use this search engine to look up study findings on toxic chemicals.
toxnet.nlm.nih.gov
CONTAMINANTS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
MDEQ Environmental Mapper
View the sites of contamination and underground storage tank sites in Michigan.
www.mcgi.state.mi.us/environmentalmapper
Scorecard
Enter your zip code to find out who's polluting in your neighborhood.
www.scorecard.org
PESTICIDES: HEALTH EFFECTS AND SAFER ALTERNATIVES
Beyond Pesticides
They have a broad array of pesticide and pesticide alternatives information. Find more information from Beyond Pesticides for this site.
www.beyondpesticides.org
Environmental Working Group: Food News
The 5th edition of the Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce features
the 12 fruits and veggies with the most and least pesticides.
www.foodnews.org
An extensive resource on pesticides and their harm in relation to the body and global food supply.
www.panna.org
TOXIC CHEMICAL EXPOSURE AND YOUR HEALTH
CHE: Autism: Do Environmental Factors Play a Role in Causation?
By Ted Schettler MD, MPH - An analysis of autism and the factors that cause it. Schettler analyzes the possibilites of environmental agents causing autism.
www.healthandenvironment.org/autism/peer_reviewed
CHE Toxicant and Disease Database
An impressive, searchable database that summarizes links between chemical contaminants and approximately 180 human diseases or conditions.
www.database.healthandenvironment.org
Cornell University's Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors
This site has a number of fact sheets on the link between breast cancer and environmental risk factors.
envirocancer.cornell.edu/factsheet/Factsheetalpha.cfm
Environmental and Occupational Causes of Cancer
A scientific report on the links between environmental toxicants and cancer.
www.healthandenvironment.org
TOXIC CHEMICAL EXPOSURE AND YOUR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
Center for Children's Health and the Environment at Mount Sinai
Information on how health problems like ADD, autism, asthma and Parkinson's
are being linked to environmental toxicants.
www.childenvironment.org
Children's Environmental Health Network
A national multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment.
www.cehn.org
Institute for Children's Environmental Health
ICEH's primary mission is to foster collaborative initiatives to reduce and ultimately eliminate environmental exposures that can undermine the health of current and future generations.
www.iceh.org
Michigan Network for Children's Environmental Health
Information on how toxic chemical exposure can affect developing infants and children, as well as related campaigns in Michigan.
www.mnceh.org/resources.out.php
Natural Resources Defense Council
Read about toxic chemicals and children's health conditions such as asthma.
www.nrdc.org/health/default.asp
Toxic Baby Bottles
This research study by Environment Michigan addresses a toxic chemical, Bisphenol-A, that is being found in popular brands of baby-bottles (pdf format).
www.environmentcalifornia.org/uploads/Ve/AQ/VeAQsr6MMu4xA3-2ibnr_g/
Toxic-Baby-Bottles.pdf
BIOMONITORING
Body Burden: The Pollution in Newborns
Read the Environmental Working Group's study on toxic chemicals found in human umbilical cord blood.
www.ewg.org/node/17687
Center for Disease Control: National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
The CDC's third analysis on the U.S. population's exposure to harmful chemicals in the environment.
www.cdc.gov/exposurereport
Coming Clean's Body Burden Project
Read about how toxic chemicals accumulate in your body and what this means in terms of your health.
www.chemicalbodyburden.org
Is It In Us?
A group of 35 Americans across the social spectrum volunteered to have their bodies tested for contaminants they had no idea were in their environment.
www.isitinus.org
Pollution in People
Read the results of a study of 10 Washingtonians whose bodies were tested for the presence of toxic chemicals.
www.pollutioninpeople.org
The Pollution Within
Reporter David Duncan chronicles his personal experience with finding out his body is full of chemicals, many of which have been shown to be toxic and harmful.
www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0610/feature4/index.html
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