Why the Read the Labels Campaign?
“*read the labels of what U eat, smell, taste, drink, wear, & use in
“any other way”
—Irucka Ajani Embry, from “Untitled: Prosaically delineating fortuitous gifts of virtue in a familial tonality” out of Balancing the Rift: ReCONNECTualizing the Pasenture. Page 215. ISBN# 978-0-9914994-0-3 {Questioning the Universe Publishing (QUP), 2014]; License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-ND 4.0)
“Read the Labels —
“of candidates
“of medicines
“of foods
“of cleaning products
“of clothing
“of transportation options
“of electrical products
“of energy sources
“of media pundits
“of teachers
“of leaders
“of Religions (including the Sciences)
“of those around U”
—Irucka Ajani Embry, from “Untitled: Controlled thoughts of random interactions…” out of Balancing the Rift: ReCONNECTualizing the Pasenture. Pages 230-231. ISBN# 978-0-9914994-0-3 {Questioning the Universe Publishing (QUP), 2014]; License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-ND 4.0)
The Read the Labels Campaign is rooted in the aforementioned quotes from my book and from my background in ecological toxicology and risk assessment, which includes Environmental & Human Health, as an environmental engineer. I began my journey into health and “dis-ease” (much of our imbalances arise from ecological toxicology) when I was young due to my parents’ interest in natural health and foods.
The purpose of the Campaign is to create a healthier You and a healthier Mother Earth/Father Sky. It is an effort to get people to understand the true significance of the products that they purchase and use {it’s goal is to extend beyond Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) at their current stage}. I created, but never presented, 2 presentations concerning this campaign that provide additional useful information:
Read the Labels Campaign 2009 presentation and Read the Labels Campaign 2011 presentation (revisions in 2023) By Irucka Embry, EIT — [Requires PDF Software]
There are additional hidden labels that I did not include in either presentation. Those are “PharmaCrops” & “PharmaAnimals” (“Edible” Transgenic Vaccines); RNAi-Technology; Genetic Pollution/Gene Flow; and Gene Editing Using Gene Drives. Various resources concerning all of the hidden labels can be found at EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): EcoC²S Online Resources.
The campaign is focused on the levels of health from the “individual” Self to the Earth. The levels are graphically shown in the following image that I created for use in my article entitled: Towards a New Model of Medicine.
In addition to the resources on this Web page, I have other useful information available at EcoC²S Online Resources and Resources for a Healthier You (Resources to help us take responsibility back to heal ourselves and each other)
Good Chemistry
- C2C-Centre: The gateway for Cradle to Cradle® knowledge, expertise and professionals
- MADE SAFE® certified products: safe for humans & ecosytems.
Green Chemistry
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): Science and Sustainability Resources: Green/Sustainable Chemistry
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Safer Chemicals Research is transforming chemical risk-based decisions by conducting high-quality, innovative scientific research. The results of this research support the Agency, states, tribes, and other stakeholders in fulfilling their shared objectives to protect human health and the environment. The pressing environmental and health challenge in chemical safety evaluations has been, and continues to be, a lack of sufficient information on most chemicals used in commerce, industry, and agriculture.
Bad Chemistry
Your Right to Know about Potentially Toxic and/or Hazardous Exposures
- Glossary of Environmental and Safety Terms By EHSO.com, the site for free, objective, practical information about the environment, health and safety in 2021!
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Chemical safety and biosafety: The OECD assists countries in developing and implementing policies and instruments that make their systems for managing chemicals as efficient and robust as possible, while protecting human health and the environment.
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE): Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)
- European Union: European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
- The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) RTECS® (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances)
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a resource for learning about toxic chemical releases and pollution prevention activities reported by industrial and federal facilities. TRI data support informed decision-making by communities, government agencies, companies, and others. Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) created the TRI.
- Environmental Working Group (EWG): Bad chemistry: FDA’s broken chemical review system By Scott Faber, June 28, 2023
- U.S. Right to Know: Chemicals of Concern
- The Truth About Cancer: The Silent Epidemic: How Everyday Toxins Impact Your Health & Natural Ways to Fight Back By Ty & Charlene Bollinger, June 21, 2023
- Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP): Right to Know: Exposing Toxic Fragrance Chemicals Report
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): ECOTOX is a comprehensive Knowledgebase providing single chemical environmental toxicity data on aquatic and terrestrial species.
- The Substance Registry Services (SRS) is EPA’s authoritative resource for information about chemicals, biological organisms, and other substances tracked or regulated by EPA.
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): CAMEO Chemicals: Database of Hazardous Materials
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA): Occupational Chemical Database
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS)
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): The NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG) informs workers, employers, and occupational health professionals about workplace chemicals and their hazards. The NPG gives general industrial hygiene information for hundreds of chemicals/classes. The NPG clearly presents key data for chemicals or substance groupings (such as cyanides, fluorides, manganese compounds) that are found in workplaces. The guide offers key facts, but does not give all relevant data. The NPG helps users recognize and control workplace chemical hazards.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): Toxic Substances Portal
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): The ATSDR ToxFAQs™ is a series of summaries about hazardous substances developed by the ATSDR Division of Toxicology. Information for this series is excerpted from the ATSDR Toxicological Profiles and Public Health Statements. Each fact sheet serves as a quick and easy to understand guide. Answers are provided to the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) about exposure to hazardous substances found around hazardous waste sites and the effects of exposure on human health.
- Substance Registry Services (SRS) is the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) central system for information about substances that are tracked or regulated by EPA or other sources. It is the authoritative resource for basic information about chemicals, biological organisms, and other substances of interest to EPA and its state and tribal partners. The SRS makes it possible to identify which EPA data systems, environmental statutes, or other sources have information about a substance and which synonym is used by that system or statute. It becomes possible therefore to map.
- Toxipedia
Transport, Fate, & Exposure
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): Global Transport, Fate & Exposure to Various Ecological Pollutants By Irucka Embry, EIT (EcoC²S)
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): Global Transport, Fate & Exposure to Various Ecological Pollutants By Irucka Embry, EIT (EcoC²S) — [Requires PDF Software]
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Risk Assessment
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Leaching Environmental Assessment Framework (LEAF) Methods and Guidance
- Vanderbilt University: Leaching Environmental Assessment Framework
- BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF)
- GitHub: Human Exposure
- Exposure and toxicity characterization of chemical emissions and chemicals in products: global recommendations and implementation in USEtox By Fantke, P., Chiu, W.A., Aylward, L. et al., Int J Life Cycle Assess 26, 899-915 (2021)
- USEtox human exposure and toxicity factors for comparative assessment of toxic emissions in life cycle analysis: sensitivity to key chemical properties By Ralph K. Rosenbaum & Mark A. J. Huijbregts & Andrew D. Henderson & Manuele Margni & Thomas E. McKone & Dik van de Meent & Michael Z. Hauschild & Shanna Shaked & Ding Sheng Li & Lois S. Gold & Olivier Jolliet, Int J Life Cycle Assess (2011) 16:710-727 — [Requires PDF Software]
- Developing human biomonitoring as a 21st century toolbox within the European exposure science strategy 2020-2030 By Maryam Zare Jeddi, Nancy B. Hopf, Henriqueta Louro, Susana Viegas, Karen S. Galea, Robert Pasanen-Kase, Tiina Santonen, Vicente Mustieles, Mariana F. Fernandez, Hans Verhagen, Stephanie K. Bopp, Jean Philippe Antignac, Arthur David, Hans Mol, Robert Barouki, Karine Audouze, Radu-Corneliu Duca, Peter Fantke, Paul Scheepers, Manosij Ghosh, An Van Nieuwenhuyse, Joana Lobo Vicente, Xenia Trier, Loïc Rambaud, Clémence Fillol, Sebastien Denys, André Conrad, Marike Kolossa-Gehring, Alicia Paini, Jon Arnot, Florian Schulze, Kate Jones, Ovnair Sepai, Imran Ali, Lorraine Brennan, Emilio Benfenati, Francesco Cubadda, Alberto Mantovani, Alena Bartonova, Alison Connolly, Jaroslav Slobodnik, Yuri Bruinen de Bruin, Jacob van Klaveren, Nicole Palmen, Hubert Dirven, Trine Husøy, Cathrine Thomsen, Ana Virgolino, Martin Röösli, Tim Gant, Natalie von Goetz, and Jos Bessems, Environment International, Volume 168, 2022, 107476,
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Distributed Structure-Searchable Toxicity (DSSTox) Database provides a high quality public chemistry resource for supporting improved predictive toxicology. A distinguishing feature of this effort is the accurate mapping of bioassay and physicochemical property data associated with chemical substances to their corresponding chemical structures. The DSSTox Database incorporates state-of-the-art cheminformatics workflows, provides the chemical infrastructure for EPA’s Safer Chemicals Research, including the ToxCast and Tox21 high-throughput toxicology efforts. EPA will continue to add content to DSSTox and users will be able to directly access the updated and expanded DSSTox database, as well as chemical exploration tools and capabilities currently under development. These capabilities will include chemical searching and SDF file downloads, as well as web-services and dynamic chemical linkages to and from EPA's CompTox Chemicals Dashboard.
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): EXPOsure toolBOX (EPA ExpoBox) is a toolbox created to assist individuals from within government, industry, academia, and the general public with assessing exposure. It is a compendium of exposure assessment tools that links to guidance documents, databases, models, reference materials, and other related resources.
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Exposure Factors Interactive Resource for Scenarios Tool (ExpoFIRST)
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Exposure Assessment Tools by Chemical Classes - Other Organics
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Rapid Chemical Exposure and Dose Research
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Complex Systems Science: Understanding Chemical Interactions with Biological Systems
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): The Center for Computational Toxicology & Exposure (CCTE) is a scientific organization working to support Agency decisions by providing solutions-driven research to rapidly evaluate the potential human health and environmental risks due to exposures to environmental chemicals and ensure the integrity of the freshwater environment and its capacity to support human well-being.
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Survey and Assessment of Fate and Transport Models for Use Following a Wide-Area Urban Release to Inform Mapping, Characterization, and Site Clearance, 2018
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Contaminant Fate, Transport & Exposure
- Environmental Sustainability for Engineers and Applied Scientists By Greg Peters and Magdalena Svanström: 4 - Modelling Environmental Transport and Fate of Pollutants
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Multimedia Fate and Transport Modeling - Overview
- Environmental Contamination from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Dispersion, Monitoring, Mitigation and Lessons Learned Edited by Teruyuki Nakajima, Toshimasa Ohara, Mitsuo Uematsu and Yuichi Onda: Part I - Transport of Radioactive Materials in the Environment
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO): Dispersion models
- United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Air: Fate, Exposure, and Risk Analysis (FERA)
- European Environment Agency: Air and Health: Exposure pathways and monitoring
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): Public Health Assessment Guidance Manual (PHAGM) helps health professionals evaluate the public health implications of exposures to environmental contamination
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): Public Health Assessment Guidance Manual (PHAGM): Overview of the Exposure Pathway Evaluation
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): Public Health Assessment Guidance Manual (PHAGM): Overview of the Exposure Pathway Evaluation
- Boston University School of Public Health: PH717 Module 2 - Exposure Assessment
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): Exposure Pathways
- Editorial: Exposure Pathways, Characterization and Risk Assessment of Chemical Contaminants in the Food Chain By Debapriya Mondal1 and Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman, Front. Environ. Sci., 14 March 2022, Sec. Toxicology, Pollution and the Environment, Volume 10 - 2022
- European Chemicals Agency: Guidance on Information Requirements and Chemical Safety Assessment: Chapter R.15: Consumer exposure assessment: Version 3.0: July 2016 — [Requires PDF Software]
- National Library of Medicine (NLM): National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf: Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces: Detecting, Characterizing, and Documenting Exposures By National Research Council (US) Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems; National Research Council (US) Commission on Life Sciences & Editors: Thomas E. McKone, Beverly M. Huey, Edward Downing, and Laura M. Duffy
- Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC): Exposure Pathways Fact Sheet — [Requires PDF Software]
- Human biomonitoring data collection from occupational exposure to pesticides By Ruth Bevan, Terry Brown, Franziska Matthies, Craig Sams, Kate Jones, James Hanlon, and Max La Vedrine, EFSA Supporting Publications, Volume 14, Issue 3, March 2017, 1185E
- Simulating human exposure to indoor airborne microplastics using a Breathing Thermal Manikin By Vianello, A., Jensen, R.L., Liu, L. et al., Sci Rep 9, 8670 (2019)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): Exposure Point Concentration Guidance for Discrete Sampling, July 12, 2019 — [Requires PDF Software]
- European Chemicals Agency: Guidance on information requirements and chemical safety assessment: Chapter R.8: Characterisation of dose [concentration]-response for human health: Version 2.1 November 2012 — [Requires PDF Software]
- ResearchGate: A Total Human Exposure Model (THEM) for Respirable Suspended Particles (RSP): Paper No. A261 for presentation at the 87th Annual Meeting & Exhibitionof the Air & Waste Management Association, Cincinnati, OH, June 1994 By Neil E. Klepeis, Wayne R. Ott, and Paul Switzer
Nuclear Energy/Power/Radiation/Weapons
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): Global Transport, Fate & Exposure to Various Ecological Pollutants By Irucka Embry, EIT (EcoC²S)
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): Global Transport, Fate & Exposure to Various Ecological Pollutants By Irucka Embry, EIT (EcoC²S) — [Requires PDF Software]
- Questioning the Universe Publishing (QUP) {Irucka Embry]: Resources to help us rethink, reimagine, & reFeel our world: Nuclear
- Science in Society Archive: The Truth about Chernobyl: Senior Russian scientists document deaths and illnesses from Chernobyl 100 times those reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Prof. Peter Saunders
- The Health costs of low-level ionizing radiation: 50+ Years of lethal deception by what has become the International Nuclear Mafia (2003)
- An Overview: Hazards of Low Level Radioactivity: Sara Shannon (Winter 1998)
- The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)
- Victorian Trades Hall Council’s (VTHC) Occupational Health and Safety Unit: Non-ionising Radiation
Earth’s Magnetic Fields (including Geopathic Stress)
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): EcoC²S Online Resources: Earth’s Magnetic Fields (including Geopathic Stress)
Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR)/Fields (EMF) & (Multiple) Chemical Interactions
- Multiple Chemical Interactions By Edward J. Calabrese, ISBN# 0873711467
- Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? By Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers, ISBN# 978-0452274143
- Our Stolen Future [Recovered with the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine]
- Our Stolen Future: The impacts of chemical mixtures [Recovered with the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine]
- Statistical methods for chemical mixtures: a roadmap for practitioners By Wei Hao, Amber L. Cathey, Max M. Aung, Jonathan Boss, John D. Meeker, Bhramar Mukherjee (preprint)
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): CAMEO Chemicals: Database of Hazardous Materials: Chemical Reactivity
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): Interaction Profiles for Toxic Substances
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Considerations for Assessing the Risks of Combined Exposure to Multiple Chemicals Series on Testing and Assessment No. 296, Environment, Health and Safety Division, Environment Directorate, 2018 — [Requires PDF Software]
- Toxicity and Assessment of Chemical Mixtures By Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER), Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR), and Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) — [Requires PDF Software]
- The role of toxic stimuli combinations in determining safe exposure limits By Ronald N. Kostoff, Marina Goumenou, and Aristidis Tsatsakis, Toxicology Reports, Volume 5, 2018, Pages 1169-1172
- Synergistic Effects of Heavy Metals and Pesticides in Living Systems By Singh Nitika, Gupta Vivek Kumar, Kumar Abhishek, and Sharma Bechan, Frontiers in Chemistry, 2017, Volume 5, Pages 70
- Investigating combined toxicity of binary mixtures in bees: Meta-analysis of laboratory tests, modelling, mechanistic basis and implications for risk assessment By Edoardo Carnesecchi, Claus Svendsen, Stefano Lasagni, Audrey Grech, Nadia Quignot, Billy Amzal, Cosimo Toma, Simone Tosi, Agnes Rortais, Jose Cortinas-Abrahantes, Ettore Capri, Nynke Kramer, Emilio Benfenati, David Spurgeon, Gilles Guillot, and Jean Lou Christian Michel Dorne, Environment International, Volume 133, Part B, 2019, 105256
- Chapter 4: Modified Health Effects of Non-ionizing Electromagnetic Radiation Combined with Other Agents Reported in the Biomedical Literature By Ronald N. Kostoff and Clifford G.Y. Lau — [Requires PDF Software]
- Synergistic health effects between chemical pollutants and electromagnetic fields By Gérard Ledoigt, Chaima Sta, Eric Goujon, Dalila Souguir, and Ezzeddine El Ferjani, Rev Environ Health. 2015;30(4):305-9.
- Synergistic Effect of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields of Dental Light Cure Devices and Mobile Phones Accelerates the Microleakage of Amalgam Restorations: An in vitro Study By S.M.J. Mortazavi, A. Dehghani Nazhvani, and M. Paknahad, J Biomed Phys Eng. 2019 Apr; 9(2): 227-232.
Toxic Chemicals & Pollution
- The Intercept: 100,000 Pages of Chemical Industry Secrets Gathered Dust in an Oregon Barn for Decades — Until Now: Carol Van Strum didn’t set out to be the repository for the people’s pushback against toxic chemicals. Then her land was sprayed with 2,4,5-T. By Sharon Lerner, July 26 2017
- chem-tox.com: Researching the effects of chemicals and pesticides upon health Information compiled by Richard Pressinger, M.Ed. and Wayne Sinclair, MD
- CHEM Trust
- The Detox Project is a research and certification platform that encourages transparency in the food and supplement industries on the subject of toxic chemicals. We also promote unique new testing technologies that enable you to find out what levels of toxic chemicals are in your body and in your food. The Detox Project has been involved in a number of groundbreaking studies over the last few years, including research on the world’s most used herbicide, glyphosate. We continue to work at government and investor level to support new technology alternatives to chemical herbicides.
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): EcoC²S Online Resources: Petrochemical (Bio)Pesticides
- Children’s Health Defense’ The Defender: FDA Fails to Protect Public From Health Risks Linked to Chemicals in Food, Cosmetics: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration needs to modernize its scientific approach to evaluating the safety of chemicals used in food and cosmetics and take stronger actions to protect the public’s health. By Linda S. Birnbaum, 05/02/22
- UnSpun: An American disaster; hazardous chemical accidents are happening every other day: Why some families keep a getaway bag ready By carey gillam, Feb 25, 2023
- The Truth About Cancer: Unpacking the Ohio Train Derailment: A Public Health Emergency? By Ty & Charlene Bollinger, February 16, 2023
- College of Naturopathic Medicine (CNM) Ireland: Are household toxins making you sick?
- Children’s Health Defense’ The Defender: Toxic Chemicals in Flame Retardants Cause Serious Health Risks: Few people are aware that these chemical additives are in so many items and fewer still know the hazards they pose — and it’s difficult to know which flame retardants are used where, and at what concentrations. By The Conversation, 11/20/23
- Children’s Health Defense’ The Defender: Common Dry-Cleaning Chemical May Be Behind Sharp Rise in Parkinson’s Disease: The authors of a paper published this month said they found important “circumstantial” evidence linking the chemical trichloroethylene to the doubling of global instances of Parkinson’s disease over the past 30 years. By The New Lede, 03/21/23
- U.S. Right to Know: Even at low levels, early bisphenol A (BPA) exposure is hazardous to later health, study shows: Why some families keep a getaway bag ready By Pamela Ferdinand, November 14, 2024
- Children’s Health Defense’ The Defender: ‘We Are Living in Pervasive Toxic Soup of Chemical Exposure,’ Carey Gillam Tells RFK, Jr.: In an interview on “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,” investigative journalist Carey Gillam talked with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. about the problem of pesticide-laced seeds. By Carey Gillam, 05/02/22
- Children’s Health Defense’ The Defender: ‘Our Bodies Don’t Know How to Process This Stuff,’ Attorney Rob Bilott Tells RFK, Jr.: On the “RFK Jr. The Defender Podcast,” environmental attorney Rob Bilott and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. discussed “forever chemicals” in food packaging, and what can be done about a problem the chemical industry says is “too big” to fix. By Susan C. Olmstead, 05/23/22
- Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog: Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Impair Juvenile Male Fertility Development and Threatens Future Reproductive Health, July 14, 2022
- The gut microbiota: a major player in the toxicity of environmental pollutants? by Sandrine P Claus, Hervé Guillou & Sandrine Ellero-Simatos, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes 2, 16003 (2016)
- Chemicals in America Are Woefully Unregulated: The federal government has not been exercising adequate oversight to protect Americans’ health. By Dr. Michelle Perro, Dr. Vincanne Adams/Chelsea Green Publishing, December 28, 2017
- Industrial Toxins Silently Poisoning Americans: Largest Uncontrolled Experiment in History By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, Global Research, April 30, 2013/TomDispatch 28 April 2013
- plastics by Dr Rye Senjen — [Requires PDF Software]
- EWG News and Analysis: Federal Study: Replacements for Hormone-Disrupting BPA May Be Just as Bad By Alexis Temkin, Ph.D., November 15, 2017
- Legal Examiner: How Did Camp Lejeune Water Get Contaminated?, July 12, 2022
- NonTox U
- NonTox U: Podcast archives
Shopping Guides (Genetic Engineering, Synthetic “Biology” (“Precision Fermentation” / Extreme Genetic Engineering) as an Extension of Laboratory Created “Foods” on the road to Artificial Intelligence (AI)-concocted nutrient pills for Synthetic “Biological Beings”, etc.)
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): EcoC²S Online Resources: Ethical Shopping
- SynBioWatch: Synthetic Biology Shopper’s Guide: updated and in stores now!
- The Non-GMO Project: Product Verification
- The Institute for Responsible Technology & The Non-GMO Project: The Non-GMO Shopping Guide
- The Center for Food Safety: Shoppers Guide to Avoiding GE Food
General Labeling
- The International Federation for Produce Standards (IFPS): PLU Code Search
- The Non-GMO Project: Sticker Shock: PLU Myths and Truths: When we think of innovations in today’s supermarket, the mind easily jumps from farm to fridge blockchain tracking, to stores […], Apr 25, 2019
- Environmental Working Group (EWG): EWG’s Guide to Healthy Cleaning: Decoding the Labels
- Just Label It
- Center for Food Safety: International Labeling Laws: Latest research shows 64 nations enforce consumer ‘right to know’ laws for GE foods, while U.S. lags behind
- OnlineLabels®: Labeling Foods With and Without GMOs, or Bioengineered Ingredients By Erin Pearlman, Updated 03/31/2022
- Just Label It
- Business Insider: The vast majority of expiration dates are bogus — here’s how long your food is still good by Mallory Schlossberg, Aug. 5, 2015
Marketing Claims and other Labels & Certifications
- Scottish Government Rural Directorate: Local Food Marketing Guide — [Requires PDF Software]
- The Detox Project: Certification Programs
- Modern Farmer: What’s in a Name? Food Labels, Explained: Food labels can be difficult to understand and interpret, so we’ve created a glossary of some common ones that you’ll see at the grocery store. By Lena Beck, Oct 09, 2023
- FoodPrint: The Basics of Fair Trade Labels by Ryan Nebeker, 2/13/23
- Fairtrade America: Fairtrade vs. fair trade: Fairtrade, fair trade, fairly traded—what do they all mean? With so many terms out there, it can be confusing to make sense of them all.
- International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ): Deforestation Inc: An ICIJ-led cross-border investigation exposes how a lightly regulated sustainability industry overlooks forest destruction and human rights violations when granting environmental certifications.
- Organic Consumers Association: Eggs with “Superior Nutrition” from “Humanely” Caged Hens Packaged in “Environmentally-Friendly” Polystyrene?: Organic Consumers Association Sues Eggland’s Best Over Misleading Claims by Alexis Baden-Mayer, March 26, 2024
- Bio Eco Actual: EU organic movement warns against greenwashing, 14/02/2023
- Science in Society Archive: Transparent Label An Alternative to Organic Certification: Organic food flown in from poor African countries to the UK has triggered debate over organic certification; the solution may be a transparent voluntary label that directly informs consumers. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): EcoC²S Online Resources: Agriculture Certifications
- Organic Consumers Association: The Myth of Natural
- Fair World Project (FWP): Label before Labor: Fair Trade USA’s Dairy Label Fails Workers
- Since 1951, the Animal Welfare Institute has been dedicated to reducing animal suffering caused by people. We seek better treatment of animals everywhere— in the laboratory, on the farm, in commerce, at home, and in the wild.
- Certified Naturally Grown: Certification for Farmers and Beekeepers
- Eat, Drink, Think Ep. 4: Peeling Back Food Labels with Danielle Nierenberg By Edible Communities, February 2, 2022
- Edible Communities: In Labels We Trust: How Food Certification Labels Can Help Consumers Make Better Choices By Elena Seeley, February 2, 2022
- MBDC: Get Cradle to Cradle Certified®: What to know about the transition from Version 3.1 to 4.0, Posted on February 9, 2023
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Safer Choice
Nanotechnology
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): EcoC²S Online Resources: What Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Cloning, Nanotechnology, High-Technology (High Tech), Conventional Renewable Energy Technologies (“Solar”, Geothermal, Wind, etc.), and Related Technologies are missing
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): EcoC²S Online Resources: Nano(bio)technology, including nanorobots
- NanoInformaTIX: Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Modelling Platform for NanoInformatics
- Anses - Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail: Nanogenotox: The project
- Role of Nanotechnology in Cosmeceuticals: A Review of Recent Advances By Shreya Kaul, Neha Gulati, Deepali Verma, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Upendra Nagaich, J Pharm (Cairo). 2018; 2018: 3420204.
Cleaners and Cleaning Products
- Environmental Working Group (EWG): EWG’s Guide to Healthy Cleaning
- Environmental Working Group (EWG): Guide to Healthy Cleaning
- Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP): Cleaning Product Tips
- Consumer Wellness Center: EXCLUSIVE: Tide laundry pods found to contain over 700 chemicals; independent lab test results released to the public
- House Digest: Surprising Ways To Use Hydrogen Peroxide In Your Home By Gina Carey, Updated: Jan. 24, 2023
Personal Care Products
- Children’s Health Defense’ The Defender: FDA Fails to Protect Public From Health Risks Linked to Chemicals in Food, Cosmetics: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration needs to modernize its scientific approach to evaluating the safety of chemicals used in food and cosmetics and take stronger actions to protect the public’s health. By Linda S. Birnbaum, 05/02/22
- Grist: Ever thought about the toxins in your sex toys?: So you’re an Enlightened Green Consumer. You buy organic food and carry it home from the local market in string bags. Your coffee is shade-grown and fair-trade, your water’s solar-heated, and your car is a hybrid. But what about the playthings you’re using for grown-up fun between those organic cotton sheets — how healthy and […] By Emily Gertz, Dec 06, 2005
- One Green Planet: Ditching Shampoo for the “No Poo” Lifestyle: Less Chemicals, Less Trash, Healthier Hair By Jonathon Engels
- Healthy Child: Skin and Body Care
- Clean Beauty: Credo Beauty Natural Makeup & Organic Skincare Store
- TERRESSENTIALS: USDA Certified Organic and 100% Natural for Face, Body, Hair, Bath & Baby
- TERRESSENTIALS: The Healthy Person’s Guide to Personal Care Ingredients
- HAOMA Earth: Natural Plant-Based Premium Skincare
- Campaign for Safe Cosmetics: Making Cosmetics Safer for All (A project of Breast Cancer Prevention Partners)
- EWG (Environmental Working Group): Skin Deep® Cosmetics Database
- Campaign for Safe Cosmetics: Non-Toxic Black Beauty Project: BCPP’s Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is tackling the environmental injustice of Black beauty with our list and database of non-toxic Black-owned beauty products that Black women can trust.
- Campaign for Safe Cosmetics: Non-Toxic Black Beauty Database: Made and sold by Black-owned companies, these products are free of the toxic chemicals on our Red List linked to health concerns that disproportionately impact Black women.
- The Art of Anti-Aging: Toxic Fragrance: Why You Want to Avoid This Common Ingredient by Brian Vaszily, 02/20/2023
- International Fragrance Association (IFRA): Ingredients
- The GuardianPretty hurts: are chemicals in beauty products making us ill? By Lauren Zanolli, 23 May 2019
- Care2.com: Beware of These Beauty Ingredients by Mel, selected from Plenty magazine, November 24, 2008
- Care2.com: “Fragrances” to Avoid in All Products by Mel, selected from Natural Solutions magazine, May 19, 2009
- NaturalNews.com: Popular shampoos contain toxic chemicals linked to nerve damage by Mike Adams, January 11, 2005
Cookware
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): Resources for a Healthier You (Resources to help us take responsibility back to heal ourselves and each other): Microwaves
- The Art of Anti-Aging: Serious Dangers of Common Cookware + Safer Alternatives by Brian Vaszily, 06/12/2023
- Environmental Working Group (EWG): Cookware & Food Containers
- Care2 Healthy Living: What Cookware Should I Use? By: Dr. Frank Lipman, March 29, 2010 [Recovered with the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine]
Safety Data Sheets (SDS) {formerly called Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)]
- US National Library of Medicine National Center for Biotechnology Information: PubChem is the world’s largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more.
- Guidechem Encyclopedia is a free chemical database that contains millions of compounds, with a large number of additions and updates every day. You can search for chemicals using their names, synonyms, CAS numbers, molecular formulas, and structural formulas. By using Guidechem Encyclopedia, you can access detailed information about compounds, including compound nomenclature, physical and chemical properties, MSDS safety data, production and usage, synthesis routes, customs codes, NMR spectra, infrared spectra, mass spectra, computational chemistry, and other relevant content.
- chemBlink Database of Chemicals from Around the World
- ChemicalBook - Chemical Search Engine
- ChemicalBook - Chemical Search Engine: MSDS-Query and download in multiple languages
- Fisher Scientific (part of Thermo Fisher Scientific): SDS Search
- UL: ChemADVISOR, Inc.: Matheson: OHS Complete Reference System SDS Management Software (Version 3.5)
- MSDSonline (a VelocityEHS solution): Free SDS Search
- The American Cleaning Institute (ACI): Cleaning Chemistry Catalog: This tool is an online database that serves as a resource for information related to the safety of ingredients used in household cleaning products.
- The Good Scents Company Information System: Search Page
- The Clorox Company: Safety Information
- Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Library for Diversey, Inc. This site provides access to current Diversey Professional and Food & Beverage product SDSs specific to the applicable country or region.
- Airgas USA, LLC: Vinyl Chloride — [Requires PDF Software]
- Sigma-Aldrich Inc.: Vinyl Chloride — [Requires PDF Software]
- Shintech Louisiana, LLC: Vinyl Chloride Monomer — [Requires PDF Software]
- Oxy Vinyls, LP: Vinyl Chloride (Monomer) — [Requires PDF Software]
- Sigma-Aldrich Inc.: Poly(vinyl chloride) — [Requires PDF Software]
- Vynova Belgium NV: polyvinylchloride — [Requires PDF Software]
- Hummel Croton Inc.: Polyvinyl Chloride — [Requires PDF Software]
- Acros Organics N.V.: Poly(vinyl chloride), high molecular weight
- Versatex Building Products, LLC: Polyvinyl Chloride Compound (PVC), VERSATEX Trimboard/ Sheet — [Requires PDF Software]
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Butyl acrylate, stabilized — [Requires PDF Software]
- Sigma-Aldrich Inc.: tert-Butyl acrylate — [Requires PDF Software]
- Sasol Chemicals (USA) LLC: Butyl Acrylate — [Requires PDF Software]
- TASNEE: Butyl Acrylate 15 ppm MEHQ — [Requires PDF Software]
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: 2-Ethylhexyl acrylate, stabilized — [Requires PDF Software]
- BASF SE: 2-Ethylhexyl acrylate {Will download to your hard drive upon clicking on the link} — [Requires PDF Software]
- The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”): 2-Ethylhexyl acrylate (2-EHA) — [Requires PDF Software]
- Sigma-Aldrich Inc.: 2-Ethylhexyl acrylate — [Requires PDF Software]
- Airgas USA, LLC: Benzene — [Requires PDF Software]
- Sigma-Aldrich Inc.: Benzene — [Requires PDF Software]
- Carl Roth GmbH + Co KG: Benzene ROTIPURAN® ≥99,5 %, p.a. — [Requires PDF Software]
- Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore (Private) Limited: Benzene — [Requires PDF Software]
- American Petroleum Institute (API): Safety Data Sheets: Petroleum Industry Practices, February 2009 — [Requires PDF Software]
- U.S. Department of Energ (DOE): Petroleum Crude Oil (Sweet) — [Requires PDF Software]
- Valero Marketing & Supply Company and Affiliates: Crude Oil — [Requires PDF Software]
- Mercuria Energy Trading B.V. supplying for and on behalf of Mercuria Energy Trading S.A: Petroleum, Crude oil — [Requires PDF Software]
- Sigma-Aldrich Inc.: Paraffin wax — [Requires PDF Software]
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Paraffin wax — [Requires PDF Software]
- United Wax: Paraffin Wax — [Requires PDF Software]
- Pure Chemicals Group: Paraffin Wax — [Requires PDF Software]
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): CAMEO Chemicals: Database of Hazardous Materials: Phosgene
- Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA): Phosgene (Carbonyl chloride)
- VandeMark Chemicals: Phosgene Derivatives and Intermediates, Life Sciences Custom Synthesis: Phosgene — [Requires PDF Software]
- Sigma-Aldrich Inc.: Phosgene solution — [Requires PDF Software]
- Airgas USA, LLC: Phosgene — [Requires PDF Software]
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Triphosgene — [Requires PDF Software]
- Airgas USA, LLC: Hydrogen chloride — [Requires PDF Software]
- Sigma-Aldrich Inc.: Hydrogen chloride — [Requires PDF Software]
- UL: ChemADVISOR, Inc.: Matheson: Hydrogen Chloride — [Requires PDF Software]
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Polypropylene sheet — [Requires PDF Software]
- Advanced Petrochemical Company (ADVANCED): Polypropylene (PP) — [Requires PDF Software]
- ChemicalBook - Chemical Search Engine: MSDS-Query and download in multiple languages: Polypropylene
- A&C Plastics: Polypropylene — [Requires PDF Software]
- Sigma-Aldrich Inc.: Poly(propylene glycol) — [Requires PDF Software]
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Poly(propylene glycol), average M.W. 425 — [Requires PDF Software]
- BASF SE: 1,2-Propylene Glycol USP {Will download to your hard drive upon clicking on the link} — [Requires PDF Software]
- Monument Chemical: Dipropylene glycol — [Requires PDF Software]
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Dipropylene glycol, mixture of isomeric propylene glycol ethers — [Requires PDF Software]
- MilliporeSigma: Dipropylene glycol MSDS - 803265
- Carolina International Sales Co., INC: Dipropylene glycol — [Requires PDF Software]
- Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc.: Polyethylene — [Requires PDF Software]
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Polyethylene, UHMW — [Requires PDF Software]
- ChemicalBook - Chemical Search Engine: MSDS-Query and download in multiple languages: Polyethylene
- Carolina International Sales Co., INC: Propylene glycol, Industrial — [Requires PDF Software]
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Propylene glycol — [Requires PDF Software]
- BASF SE: 1,2-Propylene Glycol USP {Will download to your hard drive upon clicking on the link} — [Requires PDF Software]
- MilliporeSigma: Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether MSDS - 801554
- Lab Alley LLC: Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (Laboratory) — [Requires PDF Software]
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (Laboratory) — [Requires PDF Software]
- Univar Solutions USA, Inc.: Diethylene glycol — [Requires PDF Software]
- MilliporeSigma: Diethylene glycol MSDS
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Diethylene glycol (Reagent) — [Requires PDF Software]
- ChemicalBook - Chemical Search Engine: MSDS-Query and download in multiple languages: Isobutylene
- Airgas USA, LLC: Isobutylene — [Requires PDF Software]
- Gas Innovations: Isobutylene — [Requires PDF Software]
- Praxair, Inc.: Isobutylene — [Requires PDF Software]
- BASF SE: Isobutene pure {Will download to your hard drive upon clicking on the link} — [Requires PDF Software]
- Gasco Affiliates, LLC: Isobutylene / Nitrogen — [Requires PDF Software]
- Intermountain Specialty Gases: Isobutylene (0.0001%-0.90%) in Air (Oxygen 20.9% bal. Nitrogen) — [Requires PDF Software]
- Carolina International Sales Co Inc: Safety Data Sheet: Triethylene Glycol — [Requires PDF Software]
- Sealbond Chemical Industries Incorporation: Epoxy Tank Lining — [Requires PDF Software]
- Epoxy Systems, Inc.: BisPhenolA/Epichlorohydrin (Epoxy Resin) — [Requires PDF Software]
- Hk Wentworth Limited: Epoxy Resin ER2223, part A — [Requires PDF Software]
- AkzoNobel: Epoxy — [Requires PDF Software]
- The Clorox Company: Safety Data Sheets: Clorox Healthcare®: Fuzion™ Cleaner Disinfectant
- Fisher Scientific: Bleach Material Safety Data Sheet
- MSDSonline (a VelocityEHS solution): Bleach (Sodium Hypochlorite) Safety Tips: Bleach Safety Instruction
- Fisher Scientific (part of Thermo Fisher Scientific): Safety Data Sheet: Sodium Hypochlorite, 13% — [Requires PDF Software]
- ChemicalBook - Chemical Search Engine: MSDS-Query and download in multiple languages: Saccharin
- MilliporeSigma: Saccharin MSDS - 820128
- Thermo Fisher Scientific: Saccharin sodium dihydrate — [Requires PDF Software]
- Fisher Scientific: Saccharin Sodium
Books
Books on Genetic Engineering and Warfare
- EcoC²S [Irucka Embry): EcoC²S Book Resources: Books on Death Agriculture (Genetic Engineering and Beyond) & Warfare
- https://store.globalresearch.ca/store/seeds-of-destruction/
- F. William Engdahl: Geopolitics — Geoeconomics
- Seeds of Destruction: Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation
- F. William Engdahl
- https://vandanashivamovie.com/
- Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
- Vandana Shiva
- Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
- Vandana Shiva
- Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth, and Humans
- Michael W. Fox
- Science in Society Archive
- Genetic Engineering Dream or Nightmare?: Turning the Tide on the Brave New World of Bad Science and Big Business
- Mae-Wan Ho
- The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms
- Mae-Wan Ho
- Genetic Engineering, Food, and Our Environment
- Luke Anderson
- Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature: What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Our Planet
- Martin Teitel and Kimberly A. Wilson
- Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz: Award-winning Author, Filmmaker, Whistleblower, Music Industry Evolutionary and Natural Medicine Pioneer
- DNA: Pirates Of The Sacred Spiral
- Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
- Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism & Toxic Warfare
- Leonard G. Horowitz
- Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War
- William Broad, Judith Miller, and Stephen Engelberg
- A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare
- Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman