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General chemicals policy
Hormone disrupting chemicals

General chemicals policy

Chemical Reaction
A joint project of Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the European Environmental Bureau that provides easy online actions so that you can get in touch with politicians and let them know your concerns about chemicals.
www.chemicalreaction.org

Euractive.com Chemical Links Dossier - A regularly updated outline of what's happening in the EU review of chemicals policy, including links to documents and press releases from the Commission, NGOs, industry and others.
www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm: ¬
29-117452-16&type=LinksDossier

'Chemical Awareness' - An EU NGO newsletter on chemicals policy.
www.chemical-awareness.com/

'Chemicals in the European Environment: Low Doses, High Stakes?' - A report produced by the European Environment Agency examining the problems with the existing systems for regulating chemical use.
http://reports.eea.eu.int/NYM2/en

US Environmental Defense Fund Chemical Scorecard - Provides a huge amount of information about chemicals and pollution (and maps of factory emissions in the US).
www.scorecard.org

Chemfinder - provides information on the structure and toxicology of a wide range of chemicals.
http://chemfinder.camsoft.com

Toxicology - a list of sites providing useful information.
www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/tox.html

The Green Chemistry network - coordinated by the UK Royal Society of Chemistry.
www.chemsoc.org/gcn/

The Greenpeace Chemical Home - reveals the toxic chemicals in the home.
www.greenpeace.org.uk/Products/Toxics/

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Hormone disrupting chemicals

'Introduction to hormone disrupting chemicals' - A more detailed introduction to endocrine disruption, and information on some of the chemicals implicated, written by Dr Michael Warhurst (Friends of the Earth Safer Chemicals campaigner).
http://website.lineone.net/~mwarhurst/

Tulane University Environmental Estrogens Home Page - An accessible and regularly updated site.
www.tmc.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/

'Our stolen future' website
www.ourstolenfuture.org

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See also: Links (general).