Resources: CDC's National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals Executive Summary for National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (PDF)
Nominated Chemicals Already Planned for Inclusion in Future Reports (PDF)
Biomontoring: Making a Difference Commonweal's Biomonitoring Resource Center Environmental Working Group In a study led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, in collaboration with the Environmental Working Group and Commonweal, researchers at two major laboratories found an average of 91 industrial compounds, pollutants, and other chemicals in the blood and urine of nine volunteers, with a total of 167 chemicals found in the group. Like most of us, the people tested do not work with chemicals on the job and do not live near an industrial facility.
Scientists refer to this contamination as a person's body burden. Of the 167 chemicals found, 76 cause cancer in humans or animals, 94 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 79 cause birth defects or abnormal development. The dangers of exposure to these chemicals in combination has never been studied.
Coming Clean Coming Clean is a network of groups and individuals whose common goal is to work together on chemical policies and campaigns to protect public health and the environmental from exposures to harmful and unstudied chemicals.
Center For Health Analysis of Mothers and Children of Salinas CHAMACOS is a community-university partnership investigating the environment and children's health in the Salinas Valley, Monterey County, California. Current studies focus on pesticide and allergen exposures to pregnant women and children.
