www.atsdr.cdc.gov Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, A Primer on Health Risk Communication Principles and Practices
http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/ddt/01.htm U.S. EPA History Office, DDT Ban Takes Effect; December 31, 1972
http://www.epa.gov/region02/epd/in-news.htm Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2 New Jersey, New York
http://www.epa.gov/Region2/epd/99051.htm EPA Region 2 Farmers Get A Rare Chance to Get Rid of Old, Hazardous Pesticides
http://www.epa.gov/Region2/epd/99035.htm EPA Region 2 Internet: [EPA Cleanup Action to Eliminate All Chemical Hazards at Inactive Pesticide Processing Site on New Albany Road in Moorestown, New Jersey
http://www.epa.gov/Region2/epd/99149b.htm EPA Region 2 Internet: EPA Announces Significant Actions To Reduce Toxic Chemicals in Great Lakes Basin
http://www.epa.gov/region02/pesticides/ EPA and pesticides –
Wall Street Journal Choice of Evils: As a Tropical Scourge Makes a Comeback, So, Too, Does DDT — In Malaria War, South Africa Turns to Pariah Pesticide Long Banned in the West — Mozambique’s Porous Border Wall Street Journal
http://www.fasenet.org/fasenetpubs.html FASE, Exporting Risk: Pesticide Exports from US Ports The Foundation for Advancement in Science and Education (FASE) has available two publications which track the exports of pesticide from US Ports between the years of 1992-1994 and 1995-1996. Exporting Risk
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/1995/WHO_MAL_95.1071.pdf World Health Organization Report: Use of DDT in Vector Control: Conclusion of the WHO Study for Malaria and other Mosquito-Borne Diseases. This is in Adobe Acrobat
http://www.who.int/pcs/pubs/pub_meth.htm#top World Health Organization Methodology for Health Risk Assessment International consensus documents, of which some present the state-of-the-art information on relevant aspects of risk assessment methodology, some describe the scientific basis for health risk assessment and approaches to their application, some address the principles of assessment of toxic effects in various organs, such as the kidneys, the nervous system, and the reproductive system, and some deal with the principles for the evaluation of health effects in susceptible population groups, for example infants and young children, as well as the elderly.
Pesticide & Toxic Chemical News, Dec. 2, 1999 (ref: Potter Library infotrac.galegroup.com) Tests may overestimate toxicity of aging DDT say Cornell University scientists.
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/special/hpctf/final/health.htm New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Assessment of Human Health Risk
http://www.usda.gov/agency/oce/oracba/index.htm USDA Office of Risk Assessment, This site offers a general understanding of risk assessment as well as excellent links to different organizations.
Welcome to Pennsylvania’s West Nile Surveillance Program In 2000, West Nile virus appeared for the first time in Pennsylvania in birds, mosquitoes and a horse. Surveillance Status
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/phs35.html ASTDR, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Public Health Statement for DDT, DDE and DDD, Retrieved July 2002.
http://www.epa.gov/ttnatw01/hlthef/dde.html EPA – Air Toxics Website, DDE Hazard Summary, Retrieved July 2002
http://www.gn.apc.org/pesticidestrust/aifacts/ddt.htm GreenNet, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH, Tel (UK): 0845 0554011, DDT, Retrieved July 2002
http://www.thelancet.com/search/search.isa The Lancet, How Toxic is DDT?, July 22, v356i9226, pg 267; Retrieved July 2002, from Please note: The Lancet requires registration, which is free, for retrieval of articles.
http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/allpubs.html and http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2000/108p1-4cocco/abstract.html National Institute of Health, Cocco, Kazerouni, and Zahm, Cancer Mortality and Environmental Exposure to DDE in the United States. ehpOnline is an on-line service of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Retrieved July 2002.
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/news/notbc.htm National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, DDT, PCBs Not Linked to Higher Rates of Breast Cancer, an Analysis of Five Northeast Studies Concludes, May 15, 2001, Retrieved July 2002, from http://npic.orst.edu/
National Pesticide Information Center, Oregon State University, DDT, Retrieved July 2002.
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/roc/tenth/append/appa.pdf 10th ROC:Appendix A:Manufacturing Processes, Occupations, and Exposure Circumstances Classified as Category 1, Carcinogen, (IARC S. 4, 1982; IARC V. 25, 1981) Retrieved July 2002.
http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~sjh22/toxic.html Smith AG, Chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides. Handbook of pesticide toxicology. Sand Diego, Academic Press.1991. 731-915, Retrieved July 2002.