comprehensive review of animal data was beyond the scope of this project.

However, in some instances animal data were included and influenced the

listing. This is particularly likely when an authoritative body, such as
the

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the National

Toxicology

Program, or California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

(OEHHA), which administers the Proposition 65 program, used animal data

as the primary source for their evaluations.

Other main sources of data are three major textbooks on the topic of

environmental medicine and toxicology:

1. Klaassen CD, Ed. *Casarett and Doull's Toxicology: TheBasic Science

of Poisons, 6th edition*. (2001) McGraw-Hill publishing, New York.

2. LaDou J. Ed. *Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 3rd edition*(2004), Lange Medical/McGraw-Hill, New York.

3. Rom WM, Ed. *Environmental and Occupational Medicine, 3rd edition*(1998). Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, PA.

I plan to add the database to my listing of references on exposure-related
diseases at http://links.occhealthnews.net

I believe that there are MANY sites where the deeper & more specific
information is largely concealed from the usual online search toolsbecause
the content is tapped only upon a query, and isn't directly accessed by the
search engines' linkage recording spiders, that give rise to (eg) Google's
reports and Page Rank-ing.

I did run one straight Google search using:
http://www.healthandenvironment.org and hyperactivity and Organophosphatesand did reach one of the internal pages, so it is not entirely masked.

Still, it's surprising that I hadn't seen prior use/mention of this tool,
and I wonder if other colleagues already know of it.

I am only now beginning to explore another resource at the site with a very

Science<http://www.healthandenvironment.org/cgi-bin/portal.cgi>which
provides linkage to many types of reports

Searchers specify (if desired):
Media
=C2=B7 Show All Media
=C2=B7 Book
=C2=B7 Database
=C2=B7 Magazine/journal
=C2=B7 Magazine/journal article
=C2=B7 Parent/consumer/practitioner guide
=C2=B7 Report
=C2=B7 Video


and:
TargetAudience
=C2=B7 Consumers
=C2=B7 Epidemiologists / public-health
=C2=B7 Environmental justice advocates
=C2=B7 General public
=C2=B7 Health care providers
=C2=B7 Lawmakers
=C2=B7 Parents
=C2=B7 Researchers
=C2=B7 Students

while users look for relationships between "Environmental/Toxic Issue" and
"Health Issue" topics.

Links in this narrative:
http://www.healthandenvironment.org/tddb_about
http://www.healthresearchforaction.org/sites/default/files/PDF_Perspectives_Biomonitoring_FNL_2.pdf
http://www.healthandenvironment.org
http://www.healthandenvironment.org/tddb/
http://www.healthandenvironment.org/cgi-bin/portal.cgi

-- 
*Gary Greenberg, MD MPH*

Sysop / Moderator Occ-Env-Med-L MailList
www.OccHealthNews.net <http://www.occhealthnews.net>
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
<http://osherc.sph.unc.edu/>

Med. Director, Urban Ministries of Wake Co. Open Door Clinic
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www.OpenDoorDocs.org
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