Science and other materials
Listed here are publications, documents and declarations on pesticides and cancer (from Europe and International sources); as well as Declarations and other useful resources .
From Europe:
European Food Safety Agency (EFSA): the keystone of European Union (EU) risk assessment regarding food and feed safety. The EFSA provides reporting on pesti¬cide residue levels on food in each EU country through its EU monitoring survey results, which it publishes annually.
See reports at http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/publications.htm
European Commission, DG environment - Combination effects of chemicals, Eurobarometer 2010: summary acknowledging the near two-thirds of European citizens considering that chemicals affect their health "to a large extent".
See summary at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/effects.htm
Children Health and Environment: A Review of Evidence, WHO Regional Office for Europe and European Environment Agency: a European Parliamentary report that summarizes the benefits of strict cut-off criteria for human health (Health impact assessment of pesticides).
See report at http://reports.eea.eu.int/environmental_issue_report_2002_29/en/eip_29.pdf
Chain of contamination the food link: a report from the WWF (2006).
See report at wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/how_we_work/policy/wwf_europe_environment/initiatives/chemicals/publications/?80900/Chain-of-contamination
Pesticides and Cancer Monograph in Supplement to Revue de la Praticien : a report (in French) from 15 June 2005.
See report at http://www.inma.fr
Cancer and the Environment report from INSERM: a report (in French) from INSERM, a French institute.
See report at http://www.inserm.fr/index.php
Brain tumours and crop treatment products: a report (in French) of a study on “Cerephy” from June 2007.
See report at http://etudes.isped.u-bordeaux2.fr/registres-cancers-aquitaine/Snc/document/Info_cerephy.pdf
Findings on the epidemiology of pesticides - Review: a report (in French).
See review at http://www.pesticide.be/pdf/epidemio-pesticides.pdf
International sources:
Pesticide Action Network International: a global network linking groups, institutions and individuals to respond to the fundamentally international nature of pesticide problems.
See global interactive map at http://www.panna.org/our-community/pan-international
A review of the role of pesticides play in some cancers: Children, farmers and pesticides users at risk?: a report from ChemTrust (2010).
See report at http://www.chemtrust.org.uk/documents/CHEM%20Trust%20Report%20-%20Pesticides%20&%20Cancer%20July%202010.pdf
Pesticide Use and Cutaneous Melanoma in Pesticide Applicators in the Agricultural Heath Study: a research article by Dennis LK, Lynch CF, Sandler DP, and Alavanja MC (2010).
See article at http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1289/ehp.0901518
Organophosphate Pesticides Linked to ADHD Medscape 2010.
See report at http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/721892
Outlawed Insecticide Linked to Prostate Cancer MedPage Today. 2010.
See report at http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/EnvironmentalHealth/20804
2010 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides
See guide at http://static.foodnews.org/pdf/EWG-shoppers-guide.pdf
Story of Cosmetics Film: a short film from the makers of the Story of Stuff
See film at http://storyofstuff.org/cosmetics/
Household Insecticides Appear In Umbilical Cord Blood: Chemical Exposure: The presence of "non-persistent" pesticides suggests that pregnant women experienced recent or chronic exposure. Chemical & Engineering News, 2010.
See report at http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/88/i25/8825news1.html
State of the Art Report on Mixture Toxicity by Prof. Dr. Andreas Kortenkamp (ULSOP); Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Backhaus (UGOT); Dr. Michael Faust (FBEC) 2009.
See report at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/pdf/report_Mixture%20toxicity.pdf
Mental Health Effects Arising from Pesticide Exposure: A Guide for Healthcare Providers and Mental Health Practitioners: on Mental Health and Environment, produced by a working group of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment.
See guide at http://www.healthandenvironment.org/?module=uploads&func=download&fileId=816
Chlorpyrifos Exposure and Urban Residential Environment Characteristics as Determinants of Early Childhood Neurodevelopment by Lovasi GS, Quinn JW, Rauh VA, Perera FP, Andrews HF, Garfinkel R, Hoepner L, Whyatt R, Rundle A. Am J Public Health. 2010 Mar 18.
See abstract at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20299657
List of Lists: a convenient reference for identifying those pesticides associated with particularly harmful health and environmental impacts. Pesticide Action Network UK (2009).
See reference at http://www.pan-uk.org/List%20of%20Lists.html
Pesticide Exposure and Child Development by Epidemiologist Brenda Eskenazi, Ph.D., discusses her research with farm workers in California
See report at http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2010/april/science-pesticide.cfm
Agriculture and Cancer: A need for action report, October 2008 from the Cancer Working Group of the US Collaborative on Health and the Environment (English).
See report at http://www.healthandenvironment.org/?module=uploads&func=download&fileId=581
Cancer Health Effects of Pesticides, Scientific review by the Canadian Family Physicians (CFP)
See report at http://www.cfp.ca/cgi/content/abstract/53/10/1704
Canadian Cancer Society: a website containing a section on Cancer and Environment.
See website at http://www.cancer.ca
Declarations:
Statement on the Control of Pesticides in the European Union, A call for action to protect human health (2008) by the Italian Collegium Ramazzini, an international academy of over 180 experts in environmental sciences and occupational health in 35 countries.
See statement at http://www.collegiumramazzini.org/download/13_ThirteenthCRStatement(2008).pdf
Paris Appeal (2004), International Declaration on diseases due to chemical pollution: it has been signed by hundreds of scientists, close to 1,000 NGOs, more than 150,000 individuals and 2 million European doctors represented by the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME).
See information at http://www.artac.info
Prague Declaration (2005), Prague Declaration on endocrine disruptors: a declaration signed by hundreds of scientists and researchers.
See declaration at http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/Consensus/2005-0620praguedeclaration.htm
Other Resources:
Safer chemicals for a Healthier Future: Generations X: Results of WWF’s European Family Biomonitoring Survey, WWF (2005).
See survey at http://assets.panda.org/downloads/generationsx.pdf
Monitoring of pesticide residues in products of plant origin in the European Union, Norway, Iceland and Liechenstein 2003: by the European Commission (2005), SEC (2005) 1399.
See report at http://ec.europa.eu/food/fvo/specialreports/pesticide_residues/report_2001_en.pdf
Late lessons from early warnings: the precautionary principle 1896–2000: by the European Environment Agency (EEA) (2001) Environmental Issue Report No 22, Copenhagen.
See report at http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/environmental_issue_report_2001_22
International briefing paper on the precautionary principle, Pesticides Action Network (2006).
See paper at http://www.panap.net
Danish Pesticide Use Reduction Programme- to Benefit the Environment and the Health (2005)
See report at http://www.pan-europe.info/Resources/Reports/Danish_Pesticide_Use_Reduction_Programme.pdf
The inadequacies of the current licensing system for pesticides, in Reducing Pesticide Dependency in Europe to Protect Health, Environment and Biodiversity: Conference Proceedings of the PAN Europe Annual Network Conference 2003.
See proceedings at http://www.pan-europe.info/Archive/conferences/pure2003.pdf
President’s Cancer Panel 2010: Environmentally caused cancers are ’grossly underestimated’ and ’needlessly devastate American’s lives
See report at http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/presidents-cancer-panel
