Washington residents eat more fish than the national average – probably no surprise for a state whose borders include the Pacific Ocean and the lower Columbia River. From salmon and steelhead to walleye and lake trout, fish is a staple of many residents’ diets. Yet the state’s water quality standards are based on the assumption that Washington residents eat one 7-ounce serving of fish per month. 
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La investigación hecha por las madres de puerta en puerta vinculando la exposición a agrotóxicos con efectos para la salud pública fue corroborada por un estudio hecho por el Departamento de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) a pedido del Ministerio de Salud Pública de la Nación.
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Rome - Twelve countries in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia have agreed to start working with the European Union (EU) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to manage their huge stocks of obsolete pesticides in a partnership that was launched at FAO's headquarters in Rome on April 12, 2012.
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Hundreds of illegal waste dumps in Italy may be causing nearby residents to age faster than they should. An area of Italy's Campania region - between Acerra, Nola and Marigliano - has been dubbed the "triangle of death" for the high number of fatalities from cancer found there. Birth defects are also common.
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L'exposition à des perturbateurs endocriniens et diverses autres substances chimiques favoriserait l'obésité et le diabète. L'obésité ne serait pas seulement liée à une alimentation trop riche, au manque d'exercice et aux prédispositions génétiques. L'exposition à certaines substances chimiques, notamment des perturbateurs endocriniens, jouerait un rôle important dans le développement de la maladie.
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Los productos químicos ocupan un lugar preponderante en el proceso del desarrollo económico de Honduras. El uso de sustancias químicas se ha generalizado en todas las actividades económicas.La denominada agenda química nacional 2011-2015, consiste, entre otras iniciativas previstas, en formalizar la Comisión Nacional para la GAR de productos químicos, aprobar la Política Nacional sobre este tema, insertar metas en la Visión de País y el Plan de Nación, fortalecer el marco regulatorio de productos químicos, educar y sensibilizar a la población en riesgos ante los productos químicos.
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Chemicals used for more than 60 years in paper, carpet, furniture, clothing, cardboard and Teflon are showing up in the eggs of Great Lakes birds, according to a recent study. The 20 year study, published in November by Canadian Great Lakes researchers, is the first ever of the presence of poly- and perfluorinated compounds in Great Lakes wildlife.
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The research, based on a review of 800 scientific studies, concludes that it is “remarkably common” for very small amounts of hormone-disrupting chemicals to have profound, adverse effects on human health.
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Recyclers continue to struggle with contaminants in electronic waste and in consumer plastics. A study shows that recycling companies across Europe continue to collect plastics that contain flame retardants and other worrisome substances, sometimes at concentrations above the limits of the European directive, known as the Restriction of Hazardous Substances.
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In 2009, University of Michigan researchers tested the amniotic fluid of 15 pregnant women in southeast Michigan for polybrominated diphenyl ether, or PBDEs. The chemicals were in every sample, according to the study published in Science of the Total Environment journal.
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CSIRO scientists say invisible toxic pollutants are fouling the atmosphere, even in the world's cleanest air at a monitoring station in far north-west Tasmania.
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A study lead by the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute) and the Barcelona Public Health Agency (ASPB) has shown that the level of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in blood has dropped significantly in the inhabitants of Barcelona between the years 2002 and 2006.
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Los niveles sanguíneos de compuestos tóxicos persistentes (CTP) descendieron de forma significativa en los habitantes de Barcelona entre 2002 y 2006.
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Research suggests that PCBs, which were first linked to learning problems in children more than two decades ago, may play a role in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, too. Boys who were exposed to higher levels of PCBs in the womb scored lower on focus and concentration tests, according to a newly published study.
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A Washington State University researcher has demonstrated that a variety of environmental toxicants can have negative effects on not just an exposed animal but the next three generations of its offspring. The study was funded by the U.S. Army to study pollutants that troops might be exposed to.
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Research shows for the first time that increased levels of organochlorine chemicals PCBs and a DDT breakdown product in men are associated with an extra sex chromosome in sperm that can contribute to reproductive problems. Long-banned chemicals that still persist in people and the environment are linked to an excessive number of sex chromosomes in sperm, according to a study of men from Massachusetts.
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A West Virginia judge approved a settlement Friday in a class-action lawsuit filed by residents who say that chemical manufacturer Monsanto Co. burned dioxin wastes left over from the production of Agent Orange.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its assessment of dioxins defining how toxic they are. Lauded by environmental activists and criticized by industry, the report concluded that there are potentially serious effects at ultra-low levels of exposure. The daily level of exposure considered safe is set at 0.7 picograms of dioxins per kilogram of body weight.
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High levels of endosulfan, a highly toxic pesticide which has been widely used in cashew nut and other cash crop plantations, have been found in the bone marrow of children suffering from blood cancers in the areas using the pesticide. The study was published in the journal Indian Pediatrics. 
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MIDLAND, Mich. -- Michigan environmental regulators said Thursday that they reached a long-sought deal with Dow Chemical Co. to clean up to 1,400 residential properties in Midland, home of its corporate headquarters and a plant that polluted the area with dioxin for much of the past century.
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