Health Links

Below are links to other sites that deal with the health related issues and the use of chemicals within the home.

Health Facts

• Fact: Studies have found that 50% of all illnesses are contributed to the bad air quality in our homes and buildings.

• Fact: Long term exposure to smaller amounts pesticides in air, food, or water is dangerous and shows symptoms of chronic headaches, irritation to the eyes and breathing passages, disorders of the brain and nerves, damage to the liver and kidneys, cancer, chromosome injury, infertility, and damage to the immune system.

• Fact: Sometimes, as older pesticides are phased out because of toxicity, their replacements are ultimately found to be just as toxic.

• Fact: Pesticides that are sprayed indoors may remain suspended in the air for SEVERAL DAYS [in some studies, as long as TWO weeks] after application.

• Fact: Eventually these chemicals ("registered" poisons) SETTLE on floors, toys dropped on floors, food left uncovered on countertops, and many HOUSEHOLD SURFACES. They can also enter your home on shoes that have been in contact with pesticide-treated grass.

• Fact: Pesticides sprayed outdoors can accumulate in water used for drinking, cooking, and bathing, and they can coat the surfaces of produce sold at your grocery store or farm stand."

• Fact: The U.S. uses approximately 4.6 billion pounds of toxic poisonous pesticides each year. No wonder U.S. citizens are sick!

• Fact: Pesticides are hazardous to human health and the environment, create resistant pest populations, contribute to declining crop yields, undermine local and global food security and threaten agricultural bio-diversity. Yet these pervasive chemicals are aggressively promote by multinational corporations, government agencies, and other players in this more than $35 billion a year industry.

United States
Environmental Protection Agency

The EPA offers several Information Sources on health related issues. Their Office of Children's Health Protection has an article about Children's asthma & upper respiratory illnesses that is very informative. 

The EPA's Indoor Environments Division answers the question "Why is the environment indoors important to our health?" and What Causes Indoor Air Problems?   It's office of water provides information about Lead in your Drinking Water . The Office of Pesticide Programs has the latest Consumer Alerts!