Pesticides & Cancer

Listed here are publications, documents and declarations on pesticides and cancer (UK, Europe, International); Declarations; a section on related policy issues, such as the precautionary principle; and useful website links.

Europe

Chemical Cocktails; Harmful Mixtures Upset Our Hormones - from HEAL, WWF and Chem Trust. How EU policy should protect our health and the environment.

French pesticide ’victims’ network. A support network for victims of pesticide poisoning created by MDRGF and HEAL www.victimes-pesticides.org/

European Commission, DG environment. Combination effects of chemicals Eurobarometer 2010. Almost two-thirds of European citizens consider that chemicals affect their health "to a large extent"

Cutting back on pesticides for healthier lives, New scientific understanding of health impacts of pesticides demands precautionary policy making, Briefing, February 2007, HEAL, PAN Europe. This 12-page booklet reviews the scientific evidence of the impacts of pesticides on vulnerable groups, describes why the current risk assessment process does not protect children, and provides information on the serious and growing level of pesticide contamination in Europe.

Children Health and Environment: A Review of Evidence, WHO Regional Office for Europe and European Environment Agency. The benefits of strict cut-off criteria for human health (Health impact assessment of pesticides), European Parliamentary report, Report from the European Parliament (English)

Briefing No 2 Why current European pesticide legislation fails to protect our health (2004)

Chain of contamination: The food link, WWF (2006)

Pesticides et Cancer, 15 June 2005, Monograph in a Supplement to the Revue de la Praticien (French)

Cancer and the Environment report from the French institute INSERM (French)

Brain tumours and crop treatment products, June 2007, report of a study “Cerephy” (French)

Findings on the epidemiology of pesticides, Review (undated), epidemiology of pesticides (French)

International

A review of the role of pesticides play in some cancers: Children, farmers and pesticides users at risk? . ChemTrust (2010).

Pesticide Use and Cutaneous Melanoma in Pesticide Applicators  in the Agricultural Heath Study Dennis LK, Lynch CF, Sandler DP, Alavanja MC 2010. Pesticide Use and Cutaneous Melanoma in Pesticide Applicators  in the Agricultural Heath Study. Environ Health Perspect 118:812-817. doi:10.1289/ehp.0901518

NAP Best practice: Sustainable use of pesticides: implementing a National Action Plan Pesticides Action Network (2010).

Organophosphate Pesticides Linked to ADHD Medscape 2010.

Outlawed Insecticide Linked to Prostate Cancer MedPage Today. 2010.

2010 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides

FILM: Story of Cosmetics New short film from the makers of the Story of Stuff

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.

President’s Cancer Panel 2010: Environmentally caused cancers are ’grossly underestimated’ and ’needlessly devastate American’s lives

State of the Art Report on Mixture Toxicity . 2009. Prof. Dr. Andreas Kortenkamp (ULSOP); Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Backhaus (UGOT); Dr. Michael Faust (FBEC)

Mental Health Effects Arising from Pesticide Exposure: A Guide for Healthcare Providers and Mental Health Practitioners . Mental Health and Environment, a working group of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment.

Chlorpyrifos Exposure and Urban Residential Environment Characteristics as Determinants of Early Childhood Neurodevelopment.. 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.

List of Lists. A convenient reference for identifying those pesticides associated with particularly harmful health and environmental impacts. Pesticide Action Network UK (2009).

Pesticide Exposure and Child Development. Epidemiologist Brenda Eskenazi, Ph.D., discusses her research with farm workers in California

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).

Cancer Health Effects of Pesticides, Scientific review by the Canadian Family Physicians (CFP).

Cancer and Environment section on the website of the Canadian Cancer Society.

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.

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).

Prague Declaration (2005), Prague Declaration on endocrine disruptors. Signed by hundreds of scientists and researchers.