Further Suggested Resources

Physicians for Social Responsibility

Generations at Risk: How Environmental Toxicants May Affect Reproductive Health in California

A 1998 report by the California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) and Physicians for Social Responsibility (Los Angeles and San Francisco) that examines reproductive health effects of selected chemical exposures, highlighting California chemical use and emissions data, but generally useful review of scientific literature. Downloadable in PDF format. (Also now in book format through MIT Press: Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment by Ted Schettler, M.D., Gina Solomon, M.D., Maria Valenti, and Annette Huddle.)

Generations at Risk, Companion Fact Sheets: Reproductive Health & Environmental Expsosures - Physician Fact Sheet; How Chemical Exposures Affect Reproductive Health - Patient Fact Sheet.

Physician Fact Sheet. Includes key points on chemicals that affect reproductive and developmental health, recommended questions for taking an environmental history and resources for more information.

Patient Fact Sheet. Includes key points on chemicals that affect reproductive and developmental health, information that the patient might bring to their health care provider, and resources for more information. A table of reproductive outcomes and routes of exposure includes information on the reproductive health effects of nearly 50 chemicals/substances.

"What You Should Know about Avoidable Risks of Birth Defects and Other Reproductive Disorders" (May 11, 2000)

See their Environment and Health web page.

Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children

Motherisk Newsletter. The Motherisk Program (416-813-6780) at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children provides current, evidence-based information on the effects of drugs, chemicals, diseases, radiation and environmental agents in the developing fetus and infant. Their web page includes a twice-yearly published newsletter covering information about the safety or risk of specific maternal exposures. While the focus is primarily on exposure to drugs (therapeutic and recreational) and alcohol, it does include information on occupational exposure to chemicals that may affect child health.

World Wildlife Fund

World Wildlife Fund Canada’s web resource, Reducing Your Risk: A Guide to Avoiding Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals, provides ten ways to personally reduce exposure to HAAs.

Natural Resources Defense Council

Healthy Milk, Healthy Baby: Chemical Pollution and Mother's Milk. The US-based NRDC has a web page devoted to breast milk contaminants with practical advice and information.

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