Barb Wilkie's EHN Website
Last updated 2008

• Journal of Environmental Health
  http://www.neha.org/JEHPreview.html

   

• Children's Environmental Health; Adopted July 2, 1997
  http://www.neha.org/PositionChildren.html

   

• Environmental Toxicology
  Principal: David Jollow, Ph.D.
  Professor of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology
  Medical University of South Carolina
  http://www.ebp.musc.edu/toxicology/toxindex.html

   

• Public Policy -- meetings in San Francisco March 23 and Oakland, March 24, 2001
  http://www.ebp.musc.edu/policy/np/sanfran.html

   

• CHILDREN ARE NOT GUINEA PIGS
  by GINA SOLOMON
  Sez barb: OH, YES THEY ARE! And so are their parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts,
  uncles and cousins. We all are guinea pigs. Superfluous toxins are rushed to market in commonly
  used persona care and cleaning/maintenance products. Even if we don't personally use them,
  we breathe their volatile organic compounds when others use them.
  
  We are ALL guinea pigs. And only WE can change that. At the cash register. No one listens to
  the warnings. Everyone watches the bottom line. Stop buying and using the superfluous
  toxins. Once family members are chemically injured you must change your way of shopping so
  do so BEFORE you or your loved ones suffer debilitating illnesses or become disabled.
  http://environet.policy.net/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=18258

   

• Global Warming
  http://environet.policy.net/warming/

   

• Learn Learn LuntzSpeak!
  "A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling
  than a dry recitation of the truth." Page 132
  LuntzSpeak is a Website of the National Environmental Trust
  Take this course in LuntzSpeak! It is most enlightening. -- barb
  http://www.luntzspeak.com

   

• SafeKidsNow.net - NET
  Children's Health and the Environment
  http://environet.policy.net/health/issue/?PROACTIVE_ID=cecfcfcdcacacdcec6c5cecfcfcfc5cecfcacbcccbcbcec6c7c5cf

   

• SafeKidsNow.net - NET
  Hormone Disruptors: New Class of Chemicals Can Affect How a Child Develops
  http://environet.policy.net/health/products/soutline.vtml?PROACTIVE_ID=cecfcfcdcacacdcec6c5cecfcfcfc5cecfcacbcccbcbcec6c7c5cf

  
  

http://www.cnie.org/

Global Climate Change Briefing Book
http://www.cnie.org/nle/clim-7/ebgcctop.html

Oceans & Coastal Resources: A Briefing Book
http://www.cnie.org/nle/mar-20/index.html

Summaries of Environmental Laws Administered by the EPA http://www.cnie.org/nle/leg-8/

• Nature Conservancy Offices
  http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/defs/NCstates.html
  
  
• Arizona
  http://www.tnc.org/infield/State/Arizona/arizona.htm
  
  
• Sustainable Development and the Nature Conservancy
  http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/defs/NCsustain.html

http://www.ehs.berkeley.edu/

• UC site Environmental Links
  
  http://www.ehs.berkeley.edu/resources/resources.html

http://www.monitor.net/rachel/

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• Environmental Illness and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - A Brief Introduction
  by Richard Smallfield; Copyright © Richard Smallfield 1997. All rights reserved.
  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7015/ei-cfs.html
  
  

• About Sustain
  http://www.sustainusa.org/aboutsustain/index.html

   

• Radiation
  This explanatory article references the work of Dr. Gofman, UC Berkeley. -- barb
  http://tuberose.com/Radiation.html

   

• Environmental Toxicity
  http://www.tuberose.com/Environmental_Toxicity.html

   

http://www.aap.org/family/environ.htm

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Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization (EPD)

• EPD IRB Study - W.A. Shrader, Jr., MD, Principal Investigator
  http://www.epdallergy.com/
  
  
• EPD Study Office
  "This site provides information for patients, physicians, and administrators involved
  with Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization (EPD) immunotherapy."
  http://209.161.7.3/epd/

   

• Help and Hope for Those With Food Allergies
  http://www.food-allergy.org/

   

• Stan Rohrer 's site
  http://www.dma.org/~rohrers/
  
  
  • EPD FAQ
    http://www.dma.org/~rohrers/allergy/epd_faq.htm
    
    

Epidemiology
John Hopkins Public Health
"Epidemiology is the study of the distribution of diseases and of the determinants of
health and disease risk in human populations. Epidemiologic methods are used to gather
unbiased evidence for characterizing the health of populations and for testing
hypotheses by gathering and using data from populations or groups of people.
Epidemiology is one of the quantitative foundations of public health and clinical research;
it provides a basis for preventive approaches in medicine and public health. ..."
http://ww3.jhsph.edu/Dept/EPI/

 

• Epidemiology -
  Illnesses Associated With Occupational Use of Flea-Control Products California, Texas,
  and Washington, 1989-1997; Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; JAMA
  http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v282n2/ffull/jwr0714-2.html

   

• The Adverse Effect of Low Levels of Ambient Air Pollutants on Lung Function
  Growth in Preadolescent Children
  Wieslaw Jedrychowski, Elzbieta Flak, and Elzbieta MrÛz Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Collegium Medicum in Jagiellonian University, KrakÛw, Poland
  Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 107, Number 8, August 1999
  http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/1999/107p669-674jedrychowski/abstract.html

   

• Cancer Prevention Coalition
  
  • CARCINOGENS in COSMETICS and TOILETRIES
    Click out to the links available from this page for the lists of chemicals. -- barb
    http://www.preventcancer.com/CosmeticsToiletries/index.htm

     

  • CANCER RISKS OF SMOKING COMPARED TO USING COSMETICS AND TOILETRIES
    http://www.preventcancer.com/CosmeticsToiletries/SmokingCancerRisks.html

     

  • Cancer Prevention Alerts
    http://www.preventcancer.com/alerts/index.htm

     

  • CPC's CITIZEN PETITIONS and Press Releases
    http://www.preventcancer.com/CosmeticsToiletries/CitPetPressRel.html

     

  • Mammography Is Dangerous Besides Ineffective, Warns Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
    http://www.preventcancer.com/press/feb6,2002.htm

     

  • The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) is Urged by Dr. Samuel Epstein to Consider Breast Examination as a Practical Alternative to Mammography
    http://www.preventcancer.com/press/may3,01.htm

    Books by Dr. Epstein:

    • The Breast Cancer Prevention Program
      S. S. Epstein, D. Steinman, and S. LeVert. New York, 1997: MacMillan Publishing Company. 2nd edition, 1998.
      http://www.preventcancer.com/
      
      
    • The Breast Cancer Prevention Prevention Program, 2nd Edition
      "The book that takes the cancer establishment to task"
      By Samuel S. Epstein M.D., David Steinman and Suzanne Levery, 1998
      http://www.howtopreventcancer.com/cpc/books/bcp.htm

       

    • Cancer in Britain: The Politics of Prevention
      L. Doyal and S. S. Epstein. London, 1983: Pluto Press.

       

    • Drugs of Abuse: Genetic and Other Chronic Non-Psychiatric Hazards
      S. S. Epstein, ed. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1971: M.I.T. Press.

       

    • GOT (Genetically Engineered) MILK!
      The Monsanto rBGH/BST Milk Wars Handbook*
      Collected Writings 1989-2001
      (With an Introduction by Ben & Jerry, and a Foreword by John Hagelin, Ph.D.)
      "This is an internet book which will be published in March 2001 by Seven Stories
      Press. Ordering information: Seven Stories Press, 140 Watts Street, New York, NY
      10013; telephone 212-226-8760; fax 212-226-1411; email info@sevenstories.com"
      http://www.howtopreventcancer.com/cpc/books/index.htm

       

    • Hazardous Wastes in America
      S. S. Epstein, C. Pope, and L. Brown. San Francisco, 1982: Sierra Club Books.

       

    • The Legislation of Product Safety: Consumer Health and Product Hazards,
      Vol. I: Chemicals, Electronic Products, Radiation.
      S. S. Epstein and D. Grundy, eds. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1974: M.I.T. Press.

       

    • The Legislation of Product Safety: Consumer Health and Product Hazards,
      Vol. II: Cosmetics and Drugs, Pesticides, Food Additives.
      S. S. Epstein and D. Grundy, eds. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1976: M.I.T. Press.

       

    • The Mutagenicity of Pesticides
      S. S. Epstein and M. Legator, eds. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1971: M.I.T. Press.

       

    • The Politics of Cancer
      S. S. Epstein. San Francisco, 1978: Sierra Club Books;
      Revised and expanded edition, New York, 1979: Anchor/Doubleday Press.

       

    • The Politics of Cancer Revisited
      S. S. Epstein. Fremont Center, New York, 1998: East Ridge Press
      http://www.howtopreventcancer.com/cpc/books/poc.htm

       

    • Safe Shoppers Bible
      D. Steinman and S. S. Epstein. New York, September, 1995:
      MacMillan Publishing Company
      http://www.howtopreventcancer.com/cpc/books/ssb.htm
      
      
      • Hotdogs, toothpaste risky products? That's what new guide says
        Review of The Safe Shopper's Bible in the Detroit News
        http://detnews.com/menu/stories/17288.htm
      
      
      
  • Cancer Prevention Coalition
    http://www.preventcancer.com/
    
    
  • Major Cosmetic and Toiletry Ingredient Poses Avoidable Cancer Risks,
    warns Professor of Environmental Medicine at University of Illinois, School of Public Medicine
    http://www.indneways.com/creativenv/avoiding.htm
    
    
  
  
• Escalante House -- EI-Safe Housing in Utah
  Escalante House, a nonprofit, nonreligious organization, proposes to build a
  housing com-munity for people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
  
  Escalante House
  P.O. Box 652
  Escalante UT 84726
  Phone/fax: 435.826.4778
  E-mail: toripat@color-country.net
  
  

  Essential Information
  "Founded in 1982 by Ralph Nader, Essential Information is a non-profit, tax-exempt
  organization. We are involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active
  and engaged in their communities. We provide provocative information to the public on
  important topics neglected by the mass media and policy makers.
  http://www.essential.org/EI.html

   

  • Essential Action
    http://www.essentialaction.org/

     

  • Essential Books
    http://essential-book.org/

     

• Essential Oils
  
  If you are going to be in a public venue, please do not think that essential oils
  are safe for use around those already living with chemical injury. They are not. And sorry folks,
  telling me, "It's just Patchouli oil" doesn't make my reactions any easier to deal with at
  the time I've breathed in your volatilizing oil ... whatever it may be. And knowing "It's JUST ...
  oil!" does not help me hours later either. My adverse reactions to your oils can last up to
  days and weeks.
  
  NOTE: The above was written years ago, when this was true for me. I did suffer astham and
  other severe reactions to essential oils. Patchouli was the absolute worst for me.

  After years of recovery from working in an office made toxic by flagrant fragrance use, I've
  recovered enough to be able to use essential oils by a particular firm. The oils are distilled, not
  solvent extracted. HOWEVER, I never use them and then venture into public. I do not
  want to jeopardize the health of untold others. -- barb

  
  Also see Aromatherapy
  http://ehnca.org/www/ehnlinx/a.htm#Aromatherapy
  
  
  

  • A Guide To Essential Oils And Their Uses - CAUTIONS
    "... If you are unfortunate to have an allergic reaction to perfume, you are likely also to
    be allergic to all essential oils. ..."
    And barb's two bits' worth: Others around you can have an adverse reaction to your essential oils! http://www3.sympatico.ca/derekwatts/Cautions.htm

     

    • A Guide To Essential Oils And Their Uses
      http://www3.sympatico.ca/derekwatts/Oilprop.htm

       

  • Atlantic Institute of Aromatherapy - Essential Oils Education Information
    http://www.atlanticinstitute.com/oils.html

     

    • Essential Safety - Spring 2000
      By Tony Burfield & Sylla Sheppard Hanger
      http://atlanticinstitute.com/es_spring2000.html

       

  • Em's Place - SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND HAZARDS FOR ESSENTIAL OILS
    http://www.emsplace.com/ref/bceohaz.htm

     

  • Essential oil safety-The known and the unknown.
    By Martin Watt; AGORA
    http://www.fragrant.demon.co.uk/eosafety.html

     

  • Essential Oils
    By Betty Bridges, RN
    "Essential oils are concentrated materials extracted from plants.
    Since they are so concentrated they should not be used "neat"
    or undiluted. Martin Watt, Essential oils Educator, has graciously
    shared the following information. ..."
    http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/essential_oils.htm

     

  • Essential Oils
    Includes info on Toluene and Coumarin
    http://hjem.get2net.dk/bojensen/EssentialOilsEng/EssentialOils29/EssentialOils29.htm

     

  • Essential oils in aromatherapy - What they really can do without the trade hype
    By Martin Watt, Medical Herbalist & essential oils educator
    Items for purchase. -- barb
    http://www.aromamedical.demon.co.uk/cdpage.html
    
    
  • Nature's Gift
    
    • Balancing Body, Mind & Spirit With Pure Essential Oils
      CONTRAINDICATIONS
      http://www.naturesgift.com/warnings.htm

       

  • OIL PATCHOULI or POGOSTEMOM OIL; CAS NUMBER 8014-09-3
    THE ESSENTIAL OIL COMPANY's MSDS
    http://essentialoil.com/msdspatch.html

     

  • Young Living
    http://www.youngliving.com

     

• Estrogens
  Note, info on estrogens is scattered througout this page, so use your find command. -- barb
  http://rex.nci.nih.gov/behindthenews/uest/uestcontents.htm

   

• Eternity eau de parfum by Calvin Klein
  
  My line, to a colleague, was: Your Eternity is going to send me to my eternity.
  
  I was not joking. It was taken as a joke by a large number of people. However, my extremely deep
  and heavy cough would throw my ribs out of place, the lungs felt as if they were seared; I'd
  cough up blood. It was a very painful experience and one I never grew accustomed to, even though
  it happened often in my former workplace. And that was just my reaction to this one
  perfume. Other fragrances meant other unknown combinations of petrochemical derivatives,
  and other reactions. Sometimes I'd fall, often I was made dizzy and disoriented. Enough such
  assaults, my threshold lowered; voilý MCS. Multiple Chemical Sensitivity -- the disability that
  cannot say its name out loud.

  As petrochemical-derived fragrances pollute the air for all regardless of underlying health problems
  -- and truly Green products must not contain them, according to the DOI -- they should not
  be permitted in public venues. Healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, places of worship,
  government agencies, pubic transit, and on and on and on.
  
  June 28, 2006 . . . Not out of the woods, even though my MCS symptoms have improved
  tremendously with the help of my chiropractors and acupuncturists and their herbal remedies. I
  now have kidney failure. Of course, Kaiser blames the patient -- in my case, they'll point to
  "hypertension" although at home my blood pressure has generally been in the 130s and even in the
  120s; while exposures to fragrances at Kaiser and it soars. Secondly, I had unexpected weight gain
  as my MCS progressed, but remained muscular and able to do all sorts of things, when I
  wasn't suffering from muscle and joint pain that accompanies MCS. Despite my overall health
  -- apart from MCS -- and the fact that I was muscular, I was still labeled obese. Not zaftig, not
  overweight, not heavy, but OBESE.

  And once you have the handle of obeseity, the medical/pharmaceutical industry are in the
  moneymode and are off the hook for any harm that comes your way from prescriptions. YOU
  cause your own health problems. NOT the chemical assaults.

  But, what if some bodies go to skeletal proportions due to chemical assaults, while others go to
  producing fat cells that help absorb and store the toxins? What IF, once improving from daily
  assaults of toxins, one loses weight? What IF blood pressure runing at or below 140/90 is a
  hypertension diagnosis of convenience so drugs can be pushed and plenty of people live to
  comfortable old age without developing kidney failure?
  
  What IF MCS symptoms are really the early signs of assaults upon the kidneys, but as we generally
  have more kidney power than we need, the kidneys reflect the assaults by the proliferation of
  petrochemical-derived products, but that doesn't show up in blood tests until much later on, after
  years of assaults? The reason my brain started wondering about that one is, the symptoms I've
  been told to monitor for kidney failure are identical to the very symptoms I've been living with as
  a result of various assaults by petrochemically derived products, including fragrances.
  
  Just a little something extra to ponder. I truly hope none of you go into kidney failure, but if you
  look at the stats, it's another one of those many diseases about which the experts know far too
  little and certainly have no explaination for the soaring rates. Just like with asthma. Cancer.
  Parkinson's. Alzheimers. ADD/ADHD. CFIDS, MCS. Read ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS.
  Look at how few cases of any of the diseases are genetically caused. The rest? ENVIORNMENTAL
  ILLNESS. Check it out. -- barb
  
  

  • EHN's FDA Citizens' Petition 99P-1340 Analysis Forward
    http://ehnca.org/www/FDApetition/analyfor.htm

     

  • FDA Citizens' Petition 99P-1340 Table of the Analysis Summary
    http://ehnca.org/www/FDApetition/bkgrinfo.htm

     

  • Press Release - Perfume: Cupid's Arrow or Poison Dart?
    Cancer Prevention Coalition - EHN - http://ehnca.org/www/PressReleases/fragfda3.htm

     

  • Fragrance in Perfumes and Cosmetics
    by Pamela Lundquist, Children's Health Environmental Coalition http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=509

     

  • Eternity -- "Tests commissioned by Greenpeace . . ."
    Look for their comments about several other perfumes. -- barb
    http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/Products/Toxics/chemicalhouse.cfm?producttypeid=5&productid=139

     

• Ethanol
  Folks, remember that the fragrance industry wants you to believe that fragrances contain
  "primarily water and alcohol -- of the same type and purity we drink in beverages -- as well as
  essential fragrance oils." (SPEIAC ad http://www.scentedproducts.on.ca/hdnad.jpg
  
  Look at these symptoms: "Exposure to ethanol vapors may result in irritation of the
  eyes and nose, drowsiness and headache. Other symptoms may include stupor, nausea,
  mental excitement or depression, vomiting, flushing and coma. It can cause
  irritation of the respiratory tract, intra ocular tension, ataxia, sleepiness, narcosis,
  impaired perception and incoordination. It can also cause lowered inhibitions,
  dizziness, shallow respiration, unconsciousness and death."
  Whether or not people use synthetically scented products, including pesticides, which in turn
  includes disinfectants, they breathe in the volatilizing vapors from other users. Secondary
  exposures are real and can be severe. Also, vapors can cling to the hair and clothing of others
  who are non-users and then continue to vaporize adversely affecting the already chemically
  injured at the tertiary level of exposure. Synthetic scents can adversely affect lives of untold
  others. -- barb
  http://www.herc.org/msds/chemicals/ethanol.htm

  
  

• European Commission (EC)/ European Union (EU)
  http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm

   

  • Draft Agenda for the 16th plenary meeting (Brussels, 13 March 2001)
    http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/agenda_en.html

     

  • Opinions - Scientific Committee for Cosmetic Products, and Non-Food Products intended for Consumers
    http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/outcome_en.html

     

    • Nitro Musk Compounds
      http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/oldcomm7/out08_en.html

       

    • Opinion concerning the interim position on fragrance allergy - adopted by
      the Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-food Products intended for
      Consumers during the plenary session of 23 June 1999
      http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/out88_en.html

       

  • EU (European Union) Official Documents
    http://europa.eu.int/abc/off/index_en.htm

     

    Fragrance info
    
    • Draft pre-opinion of the Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products
      and non-food products intended for consumers concerning Fragrance allergy in
      consumers (30 Septembre 1999)
      View/download opinion in PDF format (153 KB)
      http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/out93_en.pdf

       

    • Memorandum on the Opinion concerning Fragrance Allergy in Consumers
      adopted by the SCCNFP during the 16th Plenary Meeting of 13 March 2001
      http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/out137_en.html

       

    • Opinion concerning an initial list of perfumery materials which must not form
      part of fragrances compounds used in cosmetic products (adopted by the SCCNFP
      during the 12 th Plenary meeting of 3 May 2000)
      View/download opinion in PDF format
      http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/out116_en.pdf

       

    • Opinion concerning the interim position on fragrance allergy - adopted by the
      Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-food Products intended for
      Consumers during the plenary session of 23 June 1999
      http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/out88_en.html

       

    • Opinion concerning an initial list of perfumery materials which must not form
      part of cosmetic products except subject to the restrictions and conditions laid down
      adopted by the SCCNFP during the 18 th Plenary meeting of 25 September 2001(31KB)
      http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/out150_en.pdf

       

    • Opinion concerning the 1st update of the inventory of ingredients employed in cosmetic products section II : perfume and aromatic raw materials (adopted by the SCCNFP during the plenary session of 24 October 2000)(934KB)
      http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/out131_en.pdf

       

    • Opinion of The Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food
      Products intended for Consumers concerning Musk Ketone adopted by the plenary
      session of the SCCNFP of 8 December 1999
      http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/out99_en.html

       

    • Opinion of The Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food Products
      intended for Consumers concerning Musk Xylene
      PDF file
      http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/out97_en.pdf

       

    • The Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food Products intended
      for Consumers concerning Fragrance Allergy in Consumers
      View/download opinion in PDF format (215 KB)
      http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/sccp/out98_en.pdf

       

  • European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)
    About: "The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) represents over 80 non-
    governmental and other not-for-profit organisations working in support of health
    in Europe."
    http://www.epha.org/

     

  • The Price Of Caution
    William Underhill; Newsweek, 05.04.03
    To reduce risks to consumers, Europe is putting common chemical
    products under intense scrutiny
    http://www.scientific-alliance.com/news_archives/chemicals/thepriceof.htm

    Also at Belt IbÈrica, S.A.ÝMadrid
    http://www.belt.es/articulos/articulo.asp?id=1788

     

• EverGreen Rooms by Hartford
  Hotel rooms
  http://www.evergreenrooms.com/script/hotel.cgi
  
  
• Everyday Toxins
  http://everydaytoxins.com/

   

  • Risks
    http://everydaytoxins.com/main.htm

     

  • Children
    http://everydaytoxins.com/children.htm

     

  • Environment
    http://everydaytoxins.com/environment.htm

     

  • Options
    http://everydaytoxins.com/option.htm
  • Resources
    http://everydaytoxins.com/info.htm

     

• Executive PayWatch from AFL-CIO
  http://www.aflcio.org/paywatch/index.htm
  
  
  Company Information through Hoovers
  Look up company info, product info ...
  http://www.hoovers.com/
  
  
  Exploratorium, San Francisco
  http://www.exploratorium.edu/

   

• Exposed by Heidrun Holzfeind d
  http://www.exposed.at/

   

  • Exposed
    "Artist Heidrun Holzfeind often shows the circumstances of individuals considered to be
    social outsiders, like the Romanian immigrants now living in her grandparents¼ house
    in Austria or the homeless man who quit his job to publish a book. In her most recent
    film, Exposed, Holzfeind chronicles the life of Katherine Devoir, a 35-year old dancer who
    suffers from MCS, a chronic environmental illness caused by synthetic chemicals. At
    times painfully close, the film charts the restricted range of Katherine¼s acceptable
    spaces and social contact and attempts to raise empathy for her suffering."
    Bottom of page . . .
    http://www.artistsspace.org/exhibitions/2005/hunch/flail.html

     

  • MCS Facts (from movie, Exposed by Heidrun Holzfeind)d
    http://www.exposed.at/mcfacts.htm

     

• EXTOXNET
  http://extoxnet.orst.edu/

   

  • EXTOXNET Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Line...
    http://extoxnet.orst.edu/faqs/

     

• Exxon Valdez

   

  • Anchorage Daily News
    http://www.adn.com

     

    • Hard Aground - 10 years of stories, photos and reference material
      "All components of this site are copyright 1989-1999 by the Anchorage Daily News,
      Anchorage, Alaska unless otherwise noted. "
      http://www.adn.com/evos/

       

    • Legacy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
      A special feature published by the Anchorage Daily News. March 21-24, 1999
      
      "Oil spill scarred otters 2 studies report long-term effects ."
      This page provides links to many stories. -- barb
      http://www.adn.com/evos/evos.html

       

    • Still painful 10 years later,
      front-line spill workers link physical ailments to cleanup work
      By NATALIE PHILLIPS; Daily News reporter http://www.adn.com/evos/stories/T99032316.html

       

    Chicago Tribune
    Erin Brockovich probing Exxon Valdez cleanup
    By Mary Pemberton; The Associated Press; November 6, 2001, 6:18 AM CST
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-brockovich.story?coll=chi-news-hed

    Print: http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=sns%2Dbrockovich&section=/printstory

     

  • Court overturns $5 billion Exxon Valdez award
    By David Kravets, Associated Press Writer; November 7, 2001, 5:56 PM EST
    "SAN FRANCISCO -- The $5 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil Corp.
    in the 1989 Valdez oil spill is excessive, a federal appeals court ruled today. The court
    ordered a judge to determine a lesser amount. ..."
    Hmmmm, and I felt $5 B was too small considering the damage to the area and ALL of its
    inhabitants . . . and just taking a look at the human angle, the loss of health and livelihoods. -- barb
    http://www.dailypress.com/news/sns-exxon,0,5676960.story?coll=dp-breaking-news

     

  • EPA and the Exxon Valdez
    http://www.epa.gov/oilspill/exxon.htm

     

  • Exxon Valdez Spill Offers Surprising Cleanup Lessons
    KEITH JOHNSON & GAUTAM NAIK / Wall Street Journal 22nov02
    http://www.mindfully.org/Water/Valdez-Cleanup-Lessons22nov02.htm

     

  • Exxon Valdez: Ten Years After
    By Jessica Moore
    "The toll of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill is a sadly familiar one: 250,000 dead
    birds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals – all victims of the oil tanker that ran
    over a reef late one April night and drained 11 million gallons of oil into Prince
    William Sound. But most people are unaware that the tragedy did not only affect
    wildlife: many of the thousands of workers who helped clean up the spill have
    suffered serious health problems ever since. These are the workers that stood in the
    brown foam 18 hours a day, slept with oil matted in their hair, breathed in the thick
    hydrocarbon haze, and ate food speckled with oil. ..."
    http://www.socialistalternative.org/justice29/5.html

     

  • Los Angeles Times
    After a period of time, you have to pay for Times articles. -- barb
    http://www.latimes.com

     

    • Exxon Oil Spill's Cleanup Crews Share Years of Illness
      Health: Workers say chemical exposure left them debilitated.
      Firm insists toxicity was low. (Soooo, what else is new? -- barb)
      By KIM MURPHY; TIMES STAFF WRITER; November 5 2001
      "..."Stubblefield hasn't worked since. He gasps when he breathes, gets
      spasms when he is exposed to perfume, cigarette smoke, truck exhaust.
      'He'll never breathe right again. Never,' said his former wife,
      Melissa Stubblefield. 'If he even starts to laugh, he gets to
      coughing so he gasps for air.' ... "
      PERFUME caught my eye. Stubblefield and others with the Valdez clean-up, how many more
      with the Pentagon and World Trade Center horrific events? Remember, our government gave
      false air assurances and the mayor of New York, rushed people back into that area. And
      remember all the earlier scense of rescue workers with no masks or masks hanging on their
      chests. MCS in the making! -- barb
      http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D000088459nov05

       

  • Gregory Palast's Columns - Exxon Valdez
    http://www.GregPalast.com/columns.cfm?subject_id=8&subject_name=Exxon%20Valdez

     

  • Jill Rabe's Home Page
    Through about.com
    http://homepages.about.com/jillrabe/index.html

     

    • Exxon Valdez Effects on Animals
      http://homepages.about.com/jillrabe/ExxonAnimals.html

       

    • Exxon Valdez and the Court Room
      http://homepages.about.com/jillrabe/ExxonCourt.html

       

    • Exxon Valdez and Ecology
      http://homepages.about.com/jillrabe/ExxonEcology.html

       

    • Exxon Valdez Effects on Jobs
      Read this! And then tell me that the ATSDR report on MCS was unbiased and that OSHA
      knows what it's talking about when it states, "MCS is clearly not occupationally related." . -- barb
      http://pages.about.com/jillrabe/ExxonJobs.html

       

    • Exxon Valdez Effects on People
      http://homepages.about.com/jillrabe/ExxonPeople.html

       

  • Lawyers probe health claims of Exxon Valdez spill cleanup workers
    By MARY PEMBERTON; Associated Press Writer
    Kenai Peninsula Online; Web posted Tuesday, November 6, 2001
    "ANCHORAGE (AP) -- Workers who suspect they suffered serious health problems
    from helping clean up the 11-million-gallon Exxon Valdez oil spill are being asked to
    come forward.
    
    "Erin Brockovich and her boss, California lawyer Ed Masry, have teamed up with
    Anchorage attorney Michael Schneider to look into reports of health problems among
    the 15,000 workers who helped clean up Prince William Sound after the 1989 spill. ..."
    http://peninsulaclarion.com/stories/110601/ala_110601ala0070001.shtml

     

    • Erin Brockovich probes Exxon complaints
      CONCERNS: Cleanup crews who worked on the 1989 spill claim toxic exposure.
      By Mary Pemberton; The Associated Press (Published: November 6, 2001)Anchorage Daily News
      
      http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/734666p-782586c.html
      
      
    • Erin Brockovich probing Exxon Valdez cleanup
      By Mary Pemberton; The Associated Press; November 6, 2001, 7:18 AM EST
      http://www.dailypress.com/news/sns-brockovich,0,1350740.story?coll=dp-breaking-news

    
    

  • THE SOLVENT CONNECTION
    "NIOSH (USA) stated in 1987 in their Current Intelligence Bulletin that aldehydes are solvents: „Common organic solvents are classified as aliphatic hydrocarbons, cyclic hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons, halogenated hydrocarbons, ketones, amines, alcohols, aldehydes, and ethers¾. "In correspondence with New Zealand¼s Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) Professor Gorman, Health Science Centre, University of Auckland, accepts that glutaraldehyde is a solvent under Axelson and Hogstedt¼s definition. Dr Monigatti (ACC Workwise, NZ) states: „We accept glutaraldehyde has solvent-like properties. If chronic solvent exposure can cause these sorts of things then we accept that glutaraldehyde can cause [solvent toxicity] as well....(Safeguard Update, No 96, 20 April, 1998). "NIOSH (1987) states: 'Epidemiologic studies of various groups of
    solvent-exposed workers have demonstrated statistically significant
    chronic changes in peripheral nerve function (sensory and motor nerve
    conduction velocities and electromyographicabnormalities) that persisted
    for months to years following cessation of exposure. Epidemiologic studies
    have also shown statistically significant increases in neurobehavioural effects
    in workers chronically exposed to organic solvents. These effects include
    disorders characterised by reversible subjective symptoms (fatigability,
    irritability, and memory impairment), sustained changes in personality or
    mind (emotional instability and diminished impulse control and motivation),
    and impaired intellectual function (decreased concentration ability, memory,
    and learning ability). Among organic solvent abusers, the most severe disorders
    reported are characterised by irreversible deterioration in intellect and memory...
    accompanied by structural CNS damage.' ..."
    http://www.whis.nzl.org/snftaas/pt17.html

     

  • WANTED: Exxon Valdez oil-spill cleanup WORKERS
    The non-union VECO or VRCO men who applied Exxon's Inipol 13 or Exxon's Inipol EAP 22
    The union Norcon, VECO men in the Corexit trials
    The Boatsmen who sprayed chemicals from the pontoon boats
    The gals who washed the gear, & brought the lunches/supplies to beach workers
    The longshoremen who moved leaking barrels of chemicals...
    The captains and crew who transported chemicals,
    The Coast Guard monitors
    The DEC monitors
    The Medics
    Those who cleaned
    Those who cleaned the boom
    Those who washed the boats
    Those who washed the otters/birds
    Those who worked at the Dayville dump
    Those who incinerated oil mixed with chemicals
    Those who worked with skimmers, siphoning oil and chemicals from the water
    Anyone who drank water from a big boat that had transported 2-butoxyethanol-chemicals
    .... not just Inipol EAP 22, but also Corexit & multiple other experimental chemicals...
    The disability that cannot say its name out loud: MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY. -- barb
    http://www.valdezhousing.com/home.htm

    And then for a look at the other side . . .
    Erin Brockovich: The Real-Life Sequel
    By James K. Glassman; Published 11/28/2001
    TCS Tech Central Station
    Editor's Note: This article was first published in the Wall Street Journal.
    http://www.techcentralstation.com/112801C.html

    -- end Exxon Valdez info --

     

  
  EYES
  
  EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
  http://www.emdr.com/

  Fragrances and eyes
  

  • Eye- and skin symptoms in German office workers --
    subjective perception vs. objective medical screening
    S. Brasche, M. Bullinger, R. Schwab, H. Gebhardt, V. Herzog, W. Bischof "
    International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
    Annecdotal, but true: The first obvious problem I had was "adult onset acne" at an age
    when I should not have had a thought in the world about acne. Interestingly, a medical doctor's
    advice was that I stop drinking soda and eatting chips. When I told him, I couldn't stand soda and
    rarely ate chips, he told me, "That's what my wife always says and yet every night she's sitting
    on the couch with her soda and her chips." And, I replied, I am NOT your wife . . . and my
    mental note was: I am no longer your patient. My chiropractor, on the other hand, said, Barb,
    these outbreaks are a sign that something horrible is going on inside your body. You best get out
    of that workplace. I didn't. Until my body said enough is enough, beyond MCS. Fortunately,
    for me, that meant a benign tumor, not an ovarian mass as origianlly diagnosed. But, I left the
    workplace before I knew I didn't need surgery. Hence my volunteer efforts for EHN. -- barb
    PDF: http://www.urbanfischer.de/journals/intjhyg/content/2000/issue4/4410042a.pdf.
    
    HTML: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:Jq-UnyEFzPwJ:www.urbanfischer.de/journals/intjhyg/content/2000/issue4/4410042a.pdf+Facial+skin+symptoms+in+office+workers+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

     

  • MEDLINE Search Results on Medscape -- you must register, but it's free
    http://www.medscape.com/

     

    • Placebo-controlled challenges with perfume in patients with
      asthma-like symptoms.
      Millqvist E, Lowhagen O.
      Asthma and Allergy Centre, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
      "... We found that the patients' earlier symptoms could be verified by perfume
      provocation. Breathing through the carbon filter had no protective effect. The
      conclusion is that symptoms suggesting hyperreactivity of the respiratory tract and
      asthma can be provoked by perfume without the presence of bronchial obstruction,
      and that using a carbon filter mask has no preventive effect. The symptoms are not
      transmitted via the olfactory nerve, since the patients could not smell the perfume, but
      they may have been induced by a trigeminal reflex via the respiratory tract or by the eyes."
      PMID: 8837670 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8837670&dopt=Abstract

       

    • Provocations with perfume in the eyes induce airway symptoms in patients with
      sensory hyperreactivity.
      Allergy 1999 May;54(5):495-9 (ISSN: 0105-4538)
      Millqvist E; Bengtsson U; Lowhagen O [Find other articles with these Authors]
      Asthma and Allergy Centre, University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden.
      
      "BACKGROUND: In earlier studies, we have shown that patients with a history of sensory
      hyperreactivity develop asthma-like symptoms when exposed to strong scents, even
      if they cannot smell any scent. METHODS: For study of possible pathophysiologic
      mechanisms behind sensory hyperreactivity, the patients' airways and eyes were
      separately exposed to a common inducing factor, perfume. Eleven patients with a history
      of hyperreactivity to chemical trigger factors, such as perfume, were provoked single-
      blindly in a placebo-controlled, randomized study. During airway exposure, the eyes
      were covered and, during the eye exposure, the patients inhaled fresh air. A special
      face mask or a nose clip was used to avoid any smell. RESULTS: During the 30-min
      exposure to perfume, there was a gradual increase in three main symptoms; i.e., eye
      irritation, cough, and dyspnea, after both the airway and eye exposures. The increases
      were significant compared with placebo. CONCLUSIONS: Asthma-like and other
      symptoms, such as irritation of the eyes, may be induced by exposure of both the
      airways and the eyes in patients with sensory hyperreactivity. This points to the
      importance of studying the sensory nervous system, not only in the airways, but
      also in other organs."
      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=10380782

       

     

  • Perfume triggers reaction via the eyes
    Reuters Health Information
    NEW YORK, Jun 18, 1999 (Reuters Health) -- limited availability
    http://www.reutershealth.com/cgi-bin/ssi/framethis?catalog=eline&file=1999061812.html

     

  • Perfume triggers reaction via the eyes
    via HealthCentral; June 18, 1999
    http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?id=13404&StoryType=ReutersNews

     

  • Perfume Triggers Reaction Via The Eyes
    PersonalMD.com
    http://www.personalmd.com/news/a1999061812.shtml
    
    
  • Placebo-controlled challenges with perfume in patients with asthma-like symptoms.
    Allergy 1996 Jun;51(6):434-9 (ISSN: 0105-4538)
    MEDLINE Search Result on Medscape. Use their search engine; register first. -- barb
    http://www.medscape.com/
    
    
  • Provocations with perfume in the eyes induce airway symptoms
    in patients with sensory hyperreactivity.
    Allergy 1999 May;54(5):495-9 (ISSN: 0105-4538)
    MEDLINE Search Result on Medscape. Use their search engine; register first. -- barb
    http://www.medscape.com/
    
    
  • Toxic Amblyopia
    Scroll to bottom of page. Open question: Why aren't fragrances looked into
    as a possible cause . . . they are toxic chemical combinations and are ubiquitous. -- barb
    http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/sec20/227.htm