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If a source is in red, the group or agency sponsoring the web site strongly supports the Agribusiness side. If a source is in green, the group or agency sponsoring the web site strongly supports the Environmentalist side. Other sources appear to be unbiased in their ultimate goals, but may still present information helpful to one side or another.
"Endocrine
Disruption"
http://www.acpa.org/public/index_pages/issues.html
American Crop Protection Association web
page
"Introduction
to Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals"
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~mwarhurst/oestrogenic.html
Dr Michael Warhurst, an Environmental Chemist,
Edinburgh, UK
"Environmental
'Hormones' "
http://ace.orst.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/01/tics/env-horm.txt
A Pesticide Information Project of Cooperative Extension Offices
at Cornell University, Michigan State University, Oregon State
University, and University of California at Davis.
"Questions
and Answers: Potential of Chemicals to Affect the Endocrine
System"
http://www.pestlaw.com/guide/EPA-970100A.html
Wright's Pestlaw web site
"Increased
Risk from Environmental Estrogens"
http://www.gene.com/ae/WN/SUA07/estro696.html
Genentech web site
"Farm Workers Poisoned in
Pesticide Drift Accident"
http://www.pmac.net/panup.htm
Pesticide Action Network Web site
"Pesticides:
Unnecessary Risk OR Irreplaceable Tool?"
http://www.acpa.org/public/index_pages/publications.html
American Crop Protection Association web
page
"Review of Morrison
paper finds no correlation between herbicide use and prostate
cancer"
http://www.cropro.org/morrison.html
Canadian Crop Protection Industry
"Pesticide
Use at an All-Time High"
http://www.igc.apc.org/nrdc/find/topestup.html
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) web
site
"Pesticides"
http://www.cei.org:80/ebb/pests.html
Competitive Enterprise Institute web
page
"Our Forgotten
Pollinators: Protecting the Birds and Bees"
http://www.pmac.net/birdbee.htm
Pesticide Action Network web site
"Review Challenges
World Wildlife Fund Papers on Pesticide Reduction and the Impact of
Pesticides on Biodiversity"
http://www.cropro.org/wwfpaper.html
Canadian Crop Protection Industry
"IPM:
The Quiet Evolution"
http://www.acpa.org/public/index_pages/issues.html
American Crop Protection Association web
page
"Integrated Pest
Management (IPM)"
http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/nipmn/
National IPM Network
New York State IPM Vegetable Home Page is at:
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu:80/ipmnet/ny/vegetables/
Once within this page, click on:
Elements of IPM, for a working description of IPM
A selection of information on Integrated Pest Management
Pest Management at the
Crossroads web site
http://www.pmac.net/topics.htm
"Pesticide
Use in California: Strategies for Reducing Environmental
Impacts"
gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:70/00/orgs/panna/reports/pest_ca
Pesticide Action Network North America web
site
"Questions and Answers
about Organic (and not so Organic) Produce"
http://www.ccof.org/faqccof.htm
California Certified Organic Farmers web site
"Pesticide
Residues in Foods: Is Food Safety Just a Matter of Organic Versus
Traditional Farming?"
http://www.gks.com/library/pesticide/ef009.html
University of Kentucky Department of Entomology
"The Soil Foodweb:
It's Importance in Ecosystem Health" (Skim this one only)
http://www.rain.org/~sals/ingham.html
Regional Alliance for Information Networking
"Biological
Control: Approaches and Applications"
http://ipmworld.umn.edu/chapters/landis.htm
University of Minnesota web site, by D. A. Landis and D. B. Orr
Executive summary of
Carcinogens
and Anticarcinogens in the Human Diet: A Comparison of Naturally
Occurring and Synthetic Substances, National Research Council,
National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1996, pp. 1-17.
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/diet/summary.html
NOTE: This entire book has been scanned into the National Academy
Press web site. You may read more than the Executive Summary if you
wish.
National Academy of Sciences Press
"Public
Health Risks Associated with Pesticides and Natural Toxins in
Foods"
http://ipmworld.umn.edu/chapters/pimentel.htm
University of Minnesota web page, by D. Pimentel, T. W. Culliney, and
T. Bashore
"Nature's
Chemicals and Synthetic Chemicals: Comparative Toxicology"
http://mendel.berkeley.edu/center/ames.PNASIII.html
Professor Bruce Ames's web site
"Dietary
Pesticides (99.9% All Natural)"
http://mendel.berkeley.edu/center/ames.PNASII.html
Professor Bruce Ames's web site
"Risk
Assessment Background"
http://ace.orst.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/01/tibs/riskasse.htm
Extension Toxicology Network, A Pesticide Information Project of
Cooperative Extension Offices at Cornell University, Michigan State
University, Oregon State University, and University of California at
Davis.
"Aggregate
Exposure Assessment as Required by the Food Quality Protection Act of
1996"
http://www.pestlaw.com/guide/EPA-970200D.html
Wright's PestLaw web site
"Pesticide
Regulation"
http://ace.orst.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/01/tibs/pestreg.htm
Information about regulations regarding pesticides up to 1993.
NOTE: The laws changed in 1996. Be sure to read the newer articles as
well!
Extension Toxicology Network web site
A Pesticide Information Project of Cooperative Extension Offices at
Cornell University, Michigan State University, Oregon State
University, and University of California at Davis.
"How
Did Pesticide Reform Come to Pass?"
http://www.igc.apc.org/nrdc/article/agpeshow.html
NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) web
page
"A
Look at Provisions of The Food Quality Protection Act of
1996"
http://www.acpa.org/public/index_pages/issues/.html
American Crop Protection Association web
site
"EPA For Your
Information: Major Issues In The Food Quality Protection Act Of
1996"
http://www.pestlaw.com/guide/G960800B.htm
Wright's Pestlaw web site
A general site with other interesting links about the legal
aspects of regulating pesticides:
http://www.pestlaw.com/pestlaw.htm
Wright's Pestlaw web site
"Pay
to Spray: Campaign Contributions and Pesticide Legislation"
http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/reports/PayToSpray/Pay_contents.html
Environmental Working Group web site
"The Risks of
Government Regulation"
http://www.cei.org:80/ebb/riskrisk.html
Competitive Enterprise Institute web
page
"Doublespeak:
Food Quality Protection Act"
http://gopher.essential.org/hightower/1996/ht960918.html
Hightower Radio web site
"Pesticide
Action Network North America (PANNA's) Children and Pesticides
Page"
http://www.igc.apc.org/panna/children/Child.html, and links contained
therein.
Pesticide Action Network North America
Our
Stolen Future is the controversial "Silent Spring" of the
Endocrine issue. A summary of the book's conclusions can be found
at:
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/browse/publish/stolen.html
http://eande.lbl.gov/VirtualPresidio/vpjournal/beta2/stolenfuture.meadows.html
http://eande.lbl.gov/VirtualPresidio/upjournal/beta96/beta5aug/meadow5.html
http://eande.lbl.gov/VirtualPresidio/vpjournal/beta96/beta4/chemical.html
Donella H. Meadows
http://www.eic.org/keyissue.html
A Q&A which defends the book.
http://www.ratical.com/ratville/REHW486.html
http://www.ratical.com/ratville/REHW487.html
http://www.ratical.com/ratville/REHW490.html
Environmental Research Foundation
http://eande.lbl.gov/VirtualPresidio/vpjournal/beta96/beta3/stolenfuture.ames.html
Professor Bruce Ames
http://eande.lbl.gov/VirtualPresidio/vpjournal/beta96/beta4/fumento.html
Michael Fumento
http://www.junkscience.com/news/stolen.html
Junkscience web site
http://c3.org/library/stolenqa396.html
Chlorine Chemistry Council and Chlorine Defense
Fund
http://ace.orst.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/01/pips/glossary.p93
A glossary of terms used by environmental toxicologists
http://ace.orst.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/01/factsheets/orgloss.asc
For pesticide-relevant terms
The Extension Toxicology Network: http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/
IPM Network: http://www.entm.purdue.edu/nipmn/
"Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook", an electronic textbook with some good background information on pests, pesticides, toxicology, and IPM: http://www.ent.agri.umn.edu/academics/classes/ipm/ipmsite.htm
EPA Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances: http://www.epa.gov/docs/PestToxics.html
Environmental Health Sciences Center at UC Berkeley: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/mutagen/
Pest Management at the Crossroads: http://www.pmac.net/
"An Introduction to Insecticides", University of Minnesota web site: http://www.ent.agri.umn.edu/academics/classes/ipm/chapters/ware.htm
"Pesticides and Pest Control" A collection of other useful links
related to pesticides:
http://ep.llnl.gov/msds/Malathion-Module/pesticides.html
Environmental Working Group: http://www.ewg.org/
Natural Resources Defense Council: http://www.igc.apc.org/nrdc/
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA): http://www.panna.org/panna/
Canadian Crop Protection Industry: http://www.cropro.org/cpic.html
Chlorophiles Home Page and links therein: http://www.ping.be/~ping5859/Eng/Chlorophiles.html