Environmental Research 120
Overview of articles on POPs in a new issue of the Environmental Research journal.
Pages 18-26
Marie Vanden Berghe, Liesbeth Weijs, Sarah Habran, Krishna Das, Céline Bugli, Stéphane Pillet, Jean-François Rees, Paddy Pomeroy, Adrian Covaci, Cathy Debier
- Relationships between PCBs, PBDEs, OCPs and metabolites on vitamin A status in lactating grey seals.
- Positive relationships between PCBs, PBDEs, DDXs and MeO-PBDEs and vitamin A in blubber.
- Positive relationships between PCBs, PBDEs and HO-PCBs and vitamin A in serum.
- Particular state of lactation very likely plays a role in the relationships between vitamin A and pollutants.
Pages 71-75
Ming-Chieh Li, Pei-Chien Tsai, Pau-Chung Chen, Chia-Jung Hsieh, Yue-Liang Leon Guo, Walter J. Rogan
- This cohort has been exposed to high doses of dioxin-like chemicals.
- 30 year follow-up of mortality in this cohort.
- Similar socioeconomic and geographic profiling between exposed and unexposed group.
- Because of similar demographic background, potential bias could be minimized.
- Increased mortality from several non-malignant diseases and cancer in this cohort.
Pages 126-133
David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz
- Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is often depicted as the beginning of a broad societal concern about the dangers of DDT and other pesticides. Attention to the other chlorinated hydrocarbons, specifically PCBs, is seen as an outgrowth of the late 1960s environmental movement. Carson's work was clearly critical in broadening the history to include the environmental impact and set the stage for the path breaking work decades later by Theo Colburn and others on endocrine disruptions associated with other synthetic chemicals. This article reviews the development of the understanding the dangers of the chlorinated hydrocarbons in the decades preceding Carson's book. Although little noticed, Rachel Carson makes this observation herself.
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