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	Thymus Atrophy URL: http://hem.passagen.se/cnyland/thymus.html ODP description: Abstract of study that investigated whether TCDD triggers apoptosis in thymocytes. Page title: Thymus fÃ¶rtvining, atrophy, PCB, dioxin, vitaminer
	WWF Endocrine Disruptor Information URL: http://www.pmac.net/theos.htm ODP description: Papers and speeches on how hormone disruptors interfere with bio-chemical processes, and a suspected list of hormone disruptors.
	Dioxin Facts URL: http://www.dioxinfacts.org/ ODP description: Chlorine Chemistry Council provides information regarding dioxins, their release into the environment, and their effects on human health. Page title: Dioxin Facts - Dioxins, Furans, TCDD, PCBs Page description: DioxinFacts.org, created by the Chlorine Chemistry Council, provides a wide array of information regarding dioxins, their release into the environment, and their effects on human health.
	Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) URL: http://www.chem.unep.ch/pops/ ODP description: These chemical substances persist in the environment, bioaccumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing adverse effects to human health and the environment. From the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Page title: Persistent Organic Pollutants(POPs) Page description: Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are chemical substances that persist in the environment, bioaccumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing adverse effects to human health and the environment. With the evidence of long-range transport of these substances to regions where they have never been used or produced and the consequent threats they pose to the environment of the whole globe, the international community has now, at s...
	New Studies Confirm Dangers of Atrazine, a Widely Used Agricultural Weed-Killer URL: http://www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/natrazine.asp ODP description: NRDC website describes research suggesting the atrazine is a carcinogen and causes sexual abnormalities in male frogs. Page title: NRDC: EPA Won't Restrict Toxic Herbicide Atrazine, Despite Health Threat Page description: Atrazine, the nation's most widely used weed-killer, is linked to sexual abnormalities in frogs and high rates of prostate cancer among workers at an atrazine production plant.
	Ã–ko-Recherche URL: http://www.oekorecherche.de/english.html ODP description: Analyses of material flows of chemicals in the environment, including chemicals damaging the ozone layer. Page title: Welcome to Ãko-Recherche
	Environmental Toxins and Reproductive Health -- About.com URL: http://womenshealth.about.com/library/weekly/aa061599.htm ODP description: Information and internet links related to the reproductive effects of dioxins and other environmental toxins. Page title: Environmental Toxins and Reproductive Health Page description: Enviromental toxins are often the cause of reproductive health problems. Reduce your risk of reproductive health problems caused by environmental toxins.
	National Toxicology Program Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) URL: http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/ ODP description: Resource for the latest information about potentially hazardous effects of chemicals on human reproduction and development. Page title: NTP: Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR)
	Questions and Answers About Dioxins and Food Safety URL: http://ific.org/publications/qa/dioxinqa.cfm ODP description: Discusses dioxins in the food chain. Page title: Questions and Answers About Dioxins Page description: The International Food Information Council communicates science-based information on food safety and nutrition to health and nutrition professionals, educators, journalists, government officials and others providing information to consumers.
	Endocrine Disrupters: Are Synthetic Hormones Causing Environmental Chaos? URL: http://whyfiles.org/045env_hormone/ ODP description: Information from the Why Files about the endocrine system, effects of pesticides/PCBs/dioxins on wildlife and people, and prospects for action to resolve this concern. Page title: Endocrine disrupters
	Environmental Hormone URL: http://e.hormone.tulane.edu/ ODP description: Annual conference on the effects of environmental estrogens. Includes summaries of research presented in previous years. Hosted by the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities, New Orleans, LA, US. Page title: e.hormone \| hormones and the environment Page description: E.Hormone is sponsored and designed by the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities as a gateway to the environment and hormones by informing on such diverse issues as environmental research, environmental hormones, endocrine research, endocrine disrupter, endocrine disrupters, endocrine disruptor, endocrine disruptors, endocrine disrupting chemicals, estrogens, hormones, and environmental signaling.
	Weed Killer Deforms Sex Organs in Frogs, Study Finds URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/17/science/17FROG.html ODP description: New York Times report on University of California study that found that male frogs exposed to very low doses of atrazine are deficient in testosterone and can develop multiple sex organs. Page title: The New York Times > Log In
	Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment URL: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6029.html ODP description: 1999 National Academy of Sciences report (1) examines the science behind the ominous prospect of "estrogen mimics" threatening health and well-being and (2) identifies research needs. Purchase book or read it online.
	Endocrine Disruption by Estrogenic Environmental Pollutants URL: http://www.envimed.com/emb13.shtml ODP description: Overview of a chapter by B. Rey de Castro from the book Environmental Medicine. Page title: Endocrine disruption by estrogenic environmental pollutants
	Fox River Watch URL: http://www.foxriverwatch.com/ ODP description: Provides information on the PCB pollution of the Fox River, Green Bay, Wisconsin and Lake Michigan including research on PCBs, history, health effects, toxicity, sediment remediation, dredging, cleanup, and politics. Page description: PCB pollution of the Fox River, Green Bay and Lake Michigan is a health risk and requires cleanup. Comprehensive PCB health information is provided.
	Endocrine/Estrogen Letter URL: http://www.eeletter.com ODP description: Newsletter and comprehensive set of endocrine disrupter links. Page title: Endocrine Estrogen Letter - Newsletter - coverage, information
	The Information Site on Endocrine Modulation URL: http://www.emcom.ca/welcome/index.shtml ODP description: This conservative, industry/government funded site provides very cautious interpretations of scientific findings about endocrine disruption. Page title: welcome Page description: endocrine modulation, endocrine disrupters, environmental estrogen, emcom, androgen, endocrine system, hormonally active agents, hormones, endocrine glands, endocrine active compounds, haa, eac, endometriosis, decreased semen quality, precocious puberty, testicular maldescent, hypospadias pesticides, chemicals, infertility, fertility, birth defects, insecticides, PCB, dioxin, environment, puberty, sperm count, breast cancer, testicular canc...
	Introduction to Hormone Disrupting Chemicals URL: http://website.lineone.net/~mwarhurst ODP description: An introduction to the effects of hormone disrupting chemicals on man and the environment, and the response of governments and industry to this problem. Written for anyone interested in the subject. Includes internet links and other references.
	Phthalates and Human Health: Demystifying the Risks of Plastic-softening Chemicals URL: http://www.reason.org/peg2.html ODP description: Discusses human health concerns and public health benefits related to plasticizers, which are chemicals used to soften normally-rigid PVC, or polyvinyl chloride plastics.
	The Dioxin Home Page URL: http://www.websorcerer.com/Dioxin/index.html ODP description: Personal home page by Lewis A. Shadoff, Ph.D., discusses dioxins, furans, and similar toxic substances, including what they are and where they are found. Page description: All You Wanted to Know about DIOXINS