Introduction

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Glossary

What you can do

Superman and the Martians
Life on earth means exposure to chemicals and living in a chemical soup

Learn more about the impact of man-made chemicals on our health

• Do the quiz: how toxic are you?
  http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/policy/toxics/reduce_your_risks/toxic_quiz/index.cfm
  
• Find out more about pesticides and what they do:
  Get the “pesticides in produce” guide: http://www.foodnews.org/
  
• Read “Cutting back on pesticides for healthier lives”, a briefing by HEAL and Pesticides Action Network available at http://www.env-health.org/IMG/pdf/Briefing_Feb_2007_FINAL-2.pdf
  
• Find out more about the health risks of DDT and other pesticides, visit the Pesticide Action Network site:
  http://pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC33482
  
  

Reduce exposure to harmful chemicals

• Check out the Green guide of cleaning products:
  http://www.thegreenguide.com/doc/gginnews/commercialappeal110207
  
• Read the UK Women’s Environmental Network fact sheet on the alternatives for Household Cleaning at
  http://www.wen.org.uk/general_pages/resources.htm
  
• Find out which foods to avoid. The Pesticides Action Network UK has identified the “worst ten foods for pesticide residues” http://www.pan-uk.org/Projects/Food/index.htm
  
• How to avoid exposure to the harmful chemical PBDE?
  http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/oehas/pbde/pbdeavoidexposure.htm
  
• Limit your exposure to PCBs in fish, read the “Healthy fish, healthy families” leaflet available in the
  “Toxics and health” section on Physicians for Social Responsibility (USA) website at http://www.psr.org
  (Environment and Health/Resources/Toxics and health)
  
• See Fact sheet on Mercury in Fish produced by HEAL and Healthcare without Harm (HCWH):
  http://www.env-health.org/IMG/pdf/Fish_consumption.pdf
  
  

Take action with others

• Join the HEAL postcard campaign: A vote for my child’s health to ban the use of pesticides in children’s playgrounds: http://www.env-health.org/IMG/pdf/HEA_013-07_FINAL.pdf
  
• Find out more about human biomonitoring initiatives, visit the Chemicals Health Monitor, “Human Biomonitoring” section at http://www.chemicalshealthmonitor.org