Scientific Facts on
PCBs Polychlorinated biphenyls
PCBs Links
- Factual links
Some of the websites providing factual information on PCBs:
- Other Views
1. Factual links
1.1 International institutions addressing PCBs
- The US Environmental Protection Agency
(US EPA) provides information on
PCBs, health effects, legislation etc. at:
www.epa.gov/pcbs/

- The
European Commission
published a “Community Strategy for Dioxins, Furans and Polychlorinated
Biphenyls” (2001)
http://europa.eu/eur-lex/en/com/pdf/2001/com2001_0593en01.pdf
- UNEP Chemicals, the
center for all chemicals-related activities of the United Nations
Environment Programme, provides information on the properties and health
effects of PCBs at:
www.chem.unep.ch/pops/indxhtms/asses6.html#POLYBI

- The Regional Office for Europe of the
WHO (World Health
Organization) presents scientific evidence on PCBs in air in its “Air
quality guidelines for Europe” (2000), section 5.10 : www.euro.who.int/air/activities/20050223_4

( www.euro.who.int/document/aiq/5_10pcbs.pdf)
1.2 FAQs and factsheets on PCBs
- The
European Commission
provides questions and answers on Dioxins and PCBs at:
http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference= MEMO/06/54&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=fr
- ToxFAQs on PCBs by the
ATSDR (US Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry) at:
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts17.html
- Health Canada
factsheet on PCBs:
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iyh-vsv/environ/pcb-bpc_e.html
- Canadian’s Fisher Environmental website provides FAQs about PCBs:
www.fisherenvironmental.com/faq_pcb.html
- Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services proposes
questions and answers on PCBs
http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/eh/HlthHaz/fs/PCBlink.htm
- Information on PCB Contamination of Food posted on EXTOXNET
http://extoxnet.orst.edu/faqs/foodcon/pcb.htm
1.3 PCBs news
- The Environmental Health Perspectives
(EHP) journal of the U.S.
National Institute of Environmental Health Science presents Environews
on the topic of
PCBs:
http://www.ehponline.org/topic/pcbs.html
2. Other Views
Links in this section have been selected as examples of other views on PCBs. This list of links is only a sample and it is not suggested that it is complete nor that it is fully representative of all the existing views. GreenFacts asbl takes no position concerning the views expressed in these linked documents.
A site suggesting that PCBs pose more risks:
- The website of the book "Our Stolen Future" by Theo Colborn, Dianna
Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers (1996) addresses endocrine disruptors
including PCBs:
www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/newsources/thyroid.htm



