PCBs Links

1. Factual links

   Some of the websites providing factual information on PCBs:

   • 1.1 International institutions addressing PCBs
   • 1.2 FAQs and factsheets on PCBs
   • 1.3 PCBs news
2. 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