Chemical Hazards
While many chemicals contribute to the quality of our everyday lives, many also pose environmental and human health risks. The following information is intended to provide an overview of available resources on these risks. The Lowell Center has also written on this topic in the LCSP Publications section of this site.
Useful reports
In December 2006 the Boston Consensus Conference released a statement based on two and a half months of work on biomonitoring. Read the Consensus Statement here.
The European Environment Agency has produced a number of reports on chemicals, including:
- Low Doses, High Stakes examining issues around chemical safety and lack of safety data
- Late Lessons from Early Warnings uses case studies, several of them chemical, to examine how a precautionary approach to past environmental problems could have reduced environmental and health impacts.
Useful web sites
- Environmental Health News summarizes and links to a huge number of news articles & scientific papers on chemical issues.
- Tulane University's eHormone web site has explanations and news about endocrine disruption [currently inactive due to Hurricane Katrina]
- The Our Stolen Future web site focusses on endocrine disruption.
Relevant journals & research
- The Journal Environmental Health Perspectives publishes a great deal of research on the impacts of chemicals. On-line access to the articles is free.
- The Journal Environmental Science and Technology is a major source of information on health and environmental impacts of chemicals — some news pages are free, but papers require a subscription.
- At the PubMed site you can search and read abstracts of scientific papers contained in the Medline database and others.
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