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Our Favorite Avoiding Environmental Toxins Websites
Poisoning of the environment is creating health problems in our country as well as around the world. Your guide is here to help provide you with some great resources regarding sources of chemical toxins, their impact on living things, how to avoid them as much as possible, and what you can do to protect yourself and your children.
Pesticide Action Network
This international organization works to replace hazardous pesticides with alternatives that are safer for our health, the health of future generations, and the health of the planet. Some of their current campaigns include fighting hunger without pesticides, promoting organic cotton, preventing export of banned pesticides, banning methyl bromide (a fumigant that depletes the ozone layer), and building coalitions to reduce pesticide use.
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Pesticide Information
You said you wanted a resource that will help you avoid the toxic soup. You got it!

This site contains information on 5100 pesticide ingredients and over 100,000 formulated pesticide products. Where available, chronic and acute toxicity, regulatory status and aquatic ecotoxicity are listed with each chemical.
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Better Basics
Protecting yourself, your family, and the environment at large from toxic chemicals is easier than you think. Annie - better known as "Green Heloise" - has spent her career finding tools for less toxic living. Check out her web site and learn...
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Contaminants
Information on this site gives me the chills! Tumors in fish... Endocrine (hormone) disruptors that are raising havoc with our wildlife... Do you know that there are female birds who are trying to nest together? The US Fish and Game is a good resource. Warning: this is a government site; it loads very slowly! But it has good information.
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