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Alaska Current & Planned
Activities
- Sponsor regular teleconference seminars, meetings, and discussions
to highlight the current science related to environmental health
issues and disease outcomes.
- Prepare fact sheets, papers, and consensus statements to inform
health care professionals, parents, educators, community leaders,
patients, and others about ways to
- prevent harmful exposures and
protect public health.
- Organize environmental health lectures and film series.
- Support communities in addressing environmental injustices.
- Advocate for public environmental health policies that are
protective and based on the precautionary principle.
- Provide training for researchers in methods of community-based
participatory research.
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Important Updates
Alaskans
Tested for Toxic Chemicals in Products—Results Reveal
Contamination from Chemicals in Everyday Products
New Report:
“Is It In Us?
Chemical Contamination of Our Bodies—Toxic Trespass,
Regulatory Failure, and Opportunities for Action”—
35 people from seven
states, including Alaska, were tested for 20 toxic
chemicals.
Results,
Executive Summary, participants, and full report can be
found at
www.isitinus.org
For Immediate Release—News Advisory for November 8, 2007
Media Briefing (10 AM at the Loussac Library in
Anchorage)
New Fact Sheets on Toxic Chemicals,
Health Effects, and Alternatives!
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Bisphenol A
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Phthalates
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Brominated Flame Retardants—PBDEs
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