InfoPack - MCS Global Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

The MCS Global Information Package was put together for the convenience of those people who have
little time but are concerned enough to want to know more about Global Chemical Pollution and its
devastating effects on our health and the environment.

MCS Global Mission:

Our Website Global Campaign is to bring Awareness, Information and Education to the world population
of the disastrous human health and environmental health consequences as a result of global chemical pollution.

MCS-GLOBAL
www.mcs-global.org

The Center for Immune, Environmental and Toxic Disorders, specialize in the detection and treatment
of immunological diseases from toxic exposures.

The Chemical Sensitivity Foundation

The primary goal of the Chemical Sensitivity Foundation is to raise public awareness about multiple
chemical sensitivity. Our efforts in this area include the distribution of a six-page selected bibliography
of studies and articles on chemical sensitivity published in peer-reviewed journals. The amount of solid
research on this subject is expanding each year, and we believe it is important to alert physicians and
researchers to scientific information on this condition that is as yet not always recognized or understood.
One of our goals in distributing this list is to stimulate other scientists to consider launching research
studies in this field.

Environmental Health Center, Dallas Texas

The Environmental Health Center-Dallas, Texas medically tests and treats human health problems
including sensitivities to pollens, molds, dust, foods, chemicals, air (indoor/outdoor), water, electrical
(electromagnetic- EMF) sensitivity and many more health problems as they relate to our environment.

The mission of the Environmental Health Center - Dallas is to provide superior medical care and
education with a special emphasis on the effects of environmental factors on health and disease.
We will provide these services with understanding and empathy, as we ourselves expect to be served.

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) is a diverse partnership network of
individuals and organizations working collectively to advance knowledge and effective action
to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors.

Center for Health, Environment and Justice was founded in 1981, by Lois Gibbs,
the community leader at Love Canal. CHEJ seeks to help local citizens and organizations
come together and take an organized, unified stand in order to hold industry and government
accountable and work toward a healthy, sustainable future.

Allergy & Environmental Health Association Quebec

It is time now for Quebec to take care of the chemically injured.

If you or your family or friends have environmental sensitivities, we urge you to contact us for
assistance. We also need the talents and skills of those of you who are well, whether you are family
or friends who wish to help, or you are simply concerned about the effects of the environment on
human health.

Healing with Science and Compassion

Dr. Gunnar Heuser MD., Ph.D., F.A.C.P.

This site is dedicated to all who suffer from chronic illness,
their family members, significant others, caretakers and to
those who are committed to assist in the healing process.

Doris J Rapp M.D.

Dr. Rapp is a board-certified environmental medical specialist and pediatric allergist.

She was a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the State University of New York
at Buffalo.

Dr. Rapp is the founder of the Practical Allergy Foundation in Buffalo and is a past
President of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine.

She is also the author of "Is This Your Child's World?” a book to help identify
substances which cause illness and behavioral changes in children and adults,
and for providing treatment ideas.

Find out how to protect yourself and your loved ones.
We have polluted our air, water, soil, food, homes, schools and, workplaces.

WE MUST STOP IT!

Dr. Janette D. Sherman M.D.

Janette D. Sherman, M. D. is the author of Life's Delicate Balance:

* Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer and Chemical Exposure and Disease.

* Dr. Sherman is a specialist in internal medicine and toxicology.

* She has published more than 70 articles in the scientific literature.

* She also writes for the popular press to provide information to the concerned public.

Dr. Sherman's primary interest is the prevention of illness through public education
and patient awareness.

Jack Dwayne Thrasher, Ph.D

Jack D. Thrasher, Ph.D, has assisted hundreds of individuals injured by toxic chemicals and molds.
Expertise includes evaluation and assistance to the environmentally injured; appropriate
environmental testing; recommendations for medical evaluation; and current medical/scientific
literature.
Scope of past and current evaluations include: indoor pollution (molds, formaldehyde, sick building
syndrome), pesticides, solvents, heavy metals, hydrogen sulfide, cyanide. (see CV for further details).

Health Care without Harm:

are a global coalition of 443 organizations in 52 countries working to
protect health by reducing pollution in the health care industry.

Professor Malcolm Hooper

Concerns about the forthcoming UK Chief Medical Officer's Report on ME and CFS, notably the
intention to advise clinicians that only limited investigations are necessary

Toxic Chemicals: Brain Effects

Neurotoxic Chemical Effects Information

Dr. Raymond Singer Ph.D.

To provide the highest quality clinical and forensic service for evaluating and diagnosing
nervous system injury from chemicals, trauma and disease.

POISONING THE FUTURE

Impacts of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals on Wildlife and Human Health
October, 1997

Corporate Corruption of Science and Its Effects on Workers and the Environment

Powerful Corporations do what it takes to deny existence of MCS/chemical
injury & other chemically induced illnesses & diseases

Movies like Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action depict the true stories of communities whose members
became ill from drinking water contaminated with industrial waste. Their struggles clearly show how
difficult it is for people to hold corporations responsible for the harm they have caused.

Whether individuals are injured by exposures to contaminated air or water, silicone breast implants,
cigarettes, or other chemicals, their quest for justice is usually a David versus Goliath battle that pits
average citizens against giant corporations.

Conflicts of Interest:

Conflicts of Interest in Science
Conflicts of Interest in Toxic Chemical Review Process

Pesticides & the World Crime Epidemic by A.A.Gomez

The title is strong and may alarm the Chemical Corporations and an array of others including those not familiar with the fact that chemical damage to brain and nerve cells causes behavioural dysfunction. Brain and nerve cells compose mechanisms that control behaviour, including reactions and interactions between people and they become dysfunctional through chemical damage.
Pesticides are the primary chemicals responsible for this damage and billions of pounds are used to poison our homes, schools, workplaces, day care centres, and our food sources. Learning disorders and alzheimer’s disease are other ramifications of pesticide exposure and these are also explained.

Our modern cultures are now experiencing serious crime problems. People are exhibiting behavioral
disorders descending from the order and standards of preceding cultures. People concerned of this
phenomenon have been perplexed as to the causes of these changes in behavior.

NEUROLOGICAL & MENTAL HEALTH IMPACTS OF PESTICIDES

PRESS RELEASE - PESTICIDES HEALTH EFFECTS-LEUKEMIA ET AL

Leukemia & pesticide exposures

Leukemia is the ninth most prevalent cancer among new cases.

Moreover, it is also the ninth most common cause of cancer-related death in Canada,
accounting for 2.3% of new cancer cases in women and 2.9% of new cases in men.
Nationally, it is the sixth ranked cancer in terms of potential years of life lost.

Toxic Chemicals: Effects on Children

Our Toxic World: Who is looking after our children.?

Early Exposure to Toxic Substances Damages Brain Architecture

Children develop in an environment of relationships. They also develop in an environment of
chemicals. Many of these chemicals, such as the nutrients in a well-balanced diet, are essential for
good health. Others, such as lead in drinking water, are poisonous and can cause illness or death.

Some chemicals that disrupt brain architecture are produced in our own bodies as a result of severe
and prolonged stress. Others enter through contaminants in the air that we breathe, the water that
we drink, and the food that we eat.

Environmental causes of Learning Disabilities and Child Neurological Disorders

The human brain begins growing in the 4th week of pregnancy at a rate of over 4,000 cells per second.
Unlike an adult, the fetus does not have a functional blood brain barrier to protect itself from toxic insult.
This lack of natural defense allows chemicals into the fetal brain with potential to cause serious harm
and disruption in this delicate brain growth process.

YOU'VE BEEN POISONED?

UNUSUAL FATIGUE, JOINT PAINS, DIZZINESS, NAUSEA, FORGETFULNESS,
LOSS OF BALANCE & COORDINATION?

YOU SUSPECT THAT A CHEMICAL SOMEONE HAS USED HAS AFFECTED YOU OR YOUR CHILDREN?

WHAT BLOOD TESTS MIGHT YOU CONSIDER HAVING DONE IMMEDIATELY SO THAT YOU HAVE
THE EVIDENCE YOU WILL NEED TO PROVE THE POISONING?

WHAT SPECIALISTS SHOULD YOU SEE, AND WHICH TESTS MIGHT BE USEFUL IN ENABLING YOU TO
TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST THE OFFENDERS, SHOULD THEY NOT ADMIT LIABILITY AND HELP YOU
WITH YOUR MEDICAL BILLS?

UNIVERSITY GROUP ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DEGREE ASSIGNMENT 1:

The Impact of the Castlereagh
Liquid Waste Disposal Depot on
the Londonderry Terrestrial
Environment (this includes
the Hawkesbury River located
North-West of Sydney, Australia)

See more . . .

Pesticide Action Network International

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) is a network of over 600 participating
non-governmental organizations, institutions and individuals in over
90 countries working to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with
ecologically sound alternatives. Its projects and campaigns are
coordinated by fiveautonomous Regional Centers.

National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides

Because Freedom from Pesticides is Everybody's Right!

AIRCRAFT PESTICIDE USE

In 1994 Linda and Bill broke the story about the exposure of passengers and crew on certain
international airline flights to a hazardous pesticide via a practice known as "disinsection."

Air contamination documentary on what the airlines don't tell you

Aviation Organophosphate Information Site

DID YOU KNOW AS AN AIRLINE PASSENGER OR CREW MEMBER YOU ARE SOMETIMES BEING EXPOSED
ON COMMERCIAL JET AIRCRAFT TO A WIDE SELECTION OF TOXIC COMPOUNDS?

Petition to stop pesticide use on aircraft

Also Air Contamination Documentary: What the Airlines don't Tell You.
Watch the Movie Online Now

Get Set, Inc. Non-Toxic Pest Control
Setting the standard for the elimination of pesticides from your home, school and business.

Rachel Carson said it best in Silent Spring:
"If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing,
we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening
risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we
must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what
other course is open to us"

Accordingly, you will find no poisonous chemicals on this web site as we do not use (volatile, synthetic)
pesticides, we use only Pestisafes™. While pesticides need to be registered because they contain many
dangerous, poisonous chemicals, our Pestisafes™ and alternative controls use or contain only (naturally
occurring) materials that are (GRAS) Generally Recognized as Safe, and therefore are not registered.

Enroll at The Institute of Pest Management, and learn how to:

   * Control any pest problem immediately without pesticides

* Avoid endangering people, pets or polluting environment

                                                        * Protect the safety and health of both your clients and staff

                                                        * Avoid liability from potential costly contamination lawsuits

                                                        * Reduce your insurance rates and thereby increase profit

                                                        * Reduce your chemical costs and thereby increase profit

                                                        * Increase productivity with more effective control methods

                                                        * Broaden your market base and increase customer sales

                                                        * Achieve a better public image by eliminating pesticides

Safe Solutions Online Store For Organic & Holistic Health

· Specializing in Sustainable Alternatives ·

Safe Solutions, Inc. is a world leader in the innovation of nontoxic pest control alternatives.
Safe Solutions offers an array of products for maintaining a nontoxic, chemical-free home
or business,protecting healthy Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), and respecting the environment.

Find nontoxic household products that are hypoallergenic, biodegradable & biocompatible.
Eliminate risk from volatile organic compounds, improve indoor air quality, reduce
chemical exposure, replace synthetic pesticides and abrasive cleansers.

Chemical Fragrances

Chemical Fragrances: Fragranced Products Information Network
A comprehensive web site on health, environmental, and regulatory aspects
related to fragrance.

Fragrances by Design

Materials that quickly get into the air

The use of perfumes, colognes, and products which contain fragrance have increased tremendously over the past few decades. Historically, fragrance has been for luxury and special occasion use. Since the 1970s fragrance has become a part of daily life. The use of fragrance has increased ten-fold since the 1950s. The fragrance industry doubled it size during the 1980s.

Scented products are generally perceived as pleasant, a harmless means of self-expression and certainly not a significant health concern. Very little thought is given to the numerous products used a daily basis that contain fragrance unless you happen to be one of the
growing numbers of people adversely affected by scented products.

The fragrance industry has traditionally been a very secretive industry. For decades secrecy was required to protect fragrance formulas from being copied by others. Fragrance formulas are considered "trade secrets" and do not have to be revealed to anyone, including regulatory agencies. On the label, only the word fragrance must appear in the list of ingredients. The secrecy of the industry has led to tremendous problems in terms of regulation, monitoring, and impact on those that have problems from fragrance.

Perfume and Fragrance Exposure during Pregnancy

Fragrance Links
to Learning Disabilities,
ADD and Behaviour Disorders.

Fragrances Alter Mood and Brain Chemistry
Health Risks and Environmental Issues

Broadening public awareness about fluoride
The Fluoride Action Network is an international coalition seeking to broaden public awareness about the toxicity of fluoride compounds and the health impacts of current fluoride exposures.

Along with providing comprehensive and up-to-date information on fluoride issues to citizens, scientists, and policymakers alike, FAN remains vigilant in monitoring government agency actions that may impact the public's exposure to fluoride.

Fluorosis

Due to increased exposures to fluoride,
millions of children in the U.S.
are developing dental fluorosis
(damage to tooth-forming cells).

Click here to learn more...

Artificial Sweeteners

ASPARTAME, AN EXCITO-NEUROTOXIC-CARCINOGENIC DRUG

WNHO.net: ASPARTAME AND OTHER SO-CALLED"ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS"
NEWS AND ARTICLES

DORway David Oliver Rietz' DORway to Discovery
"If something's broke, fix it. If you don't know how, learn. If you're not willing to learn,
don't complain about it. If it can't be fixed, then accept it, and move on."

DORway: To educate the public on all aspects of the substance generically known as "aspartame,"
a fake sweetening agent created in part by using genetically-engineered E-coli bacteria. This substance,
currently in over 9000 products worldwide, poisons a wide range of products many of them aimed at
children and even infants. Especially crucial to public awareness is the FDA compiled list of 92 symptoms
of poisoning.

Aspartame (Nutrasweet) Toxicity Information Centre

* Detailed scientific and general documentation regarding the toxicity of Nutrasweet,
Equal, Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, and other aspartame containing items.

* Web page includes real life reports of acute and chronic toxicity due to long-term ingestion.

* Also included is extensive scientific and general information and resources.

Brain Cell Damage from Amino Acid Isolates:

A PRIMARY CONCERN FROM ASPARTAME-BASED PRODUCTS AND ARTIFICIAL SWEETENING AGENTS

This article is an accumulation of long-standing intensive research into the brain
chemistry-altering effects of a toxic, artificial sweetener consumed daily by hundreds
of millions of unsuspecting individuals. Food Industry and Political corruption

The Artificially Sweetened Times

The editors of The Artificially Sweetened Times believe that government product approval
is not a license to knowingly poison the public for profit.

Genetically Modified Foods

Seeds of Deception

The explosive exposé by Jeffrey M. Smith,
documents significant health dangers of
genetically modified (GM) foods and the
intense industry influence and political
corruption that allow them on the market.

Hailed as the best book on the topic, many
believe that the revelations in this book
can topple an industry.

Seeds of Deception: Is Your Food safe?
What the Biotech Industry doesn't want you to know!

Chapters read like adventure stories:

* Scientists were offered bribes or threatened. Evidence was stolen. Data was omitted or distorted.

* Government employees who complained were harassed, stripped of responsibilities, or fired.

* Laboratory rats fed a GM crop developed stomach lesions and seven of the 40 died within two weeks.
The crop was approved without further tests.

* When a top scientist tried to alert the public about his alarming discoveries, he lost his job and was
silenced with threats of a lawsuit.

Read the actual internal memos by FDA scientists, warning of toxins, allergies, and new diseases-all
ignored by their superiors, including a former attorney for Monsanto. Discover how industry studies are
designed to avoid finding problems. Learn why the FDA withheld information from Congress after a
genetically modified supplement killed nearly a hundred people and disabled thousands.

Eating such experimental food is gambling with your health. Find out how you can protect yourself
and your family.

Vaccinations

Vaccine Truth

Vaccination: Just Say NO!

Vaccination IS NOT Immunization.

Vaccination Liberation

Vaccination Liberation is part of a national grassroots network dedicated to providing
information on vaccinations not often made available to the public so that one can
make the only informed choice, complete avoidance and refusal.

Vaccine Website

If you think you need a medical education to form an opinion on the merits
of vaccination, ask yourself, who created and keeps that belief going?

National Vaccine Information Centre

Vaccines or immunizations are recommended for every child
born in the United States.

Vaccinations shouldn't hurt a child but sometimes they do.

Before your child takes the risk, find out what it is.

Think Twice - Global Vaccine Institute

Because this is such an important topic, we believe that parents
are entitled to a full disclosure of all pertinent data and the
freedom to choose whether or not to vaccinate their children.

Get the Facts!
We offer an extensive selection of uncensored information on childhood shots and other immunizations.

Vaccination Debate

"When men differ, both sides ought equally be
heard by the public, for when truth and error
have fair play, the former is always an
overmatch for the latter" Benjamin Franklin

Vaccination Information Service

Vaccination: The Hidden Truth DVD documentary review

The video raises the fundamental question of whether we should be trying to prevent childhood diseases anyway, in that they contribute to the development of a healthy immune system. If what the video says is true, why is vaccination pushed so heavily by the government authorities?

In the video, Dr. Viera Scheibner, who has studied almost 100,000 pages of orthodox medical research on vaccination, warns:

"It took almost three years of research before we looked at each other and said ‘Vaccines are killing babies’… It is a well documented fact that the incidence and mortality from infectious diseases fell by 90% well before any vaccine was even introduced."

Vaccination Information Service will inform you primarily about the key fundamentals, indeed critical flaws, of vaccination (or "immunisation") that apply to every type of vaccine - for children, adults (travel vaccines and other) and all animals. So it applies to the influenza or flu vaccine, polio vaccine, hepatitis b vaccine, chicken pox vaccine, hpv vaccine, small pox vaccination, anthrax vaccine, DPT and MMR vaccines, pneumonia vaccine, dog vaccination, rabies vaccination, yellow fever vaccination, etc etc.

Vaccine Ingredients

A list of ingredients in vaccines. (It is not exhaustive - there are other chemicals not in the list.)
If you are tempted to assume that these poisons would only be in harmless quantities in vaccines, note:

1) There is no safe level for some of these poisons, such as formaldehyde and mercury, even if one of them was consumed or injected on its own.

2) Even if the quantity of any given ingredient was within a safe level, remember that a large number of these are being taken in all at once, which can lead to the accumulative toxicity being much higher.

3) Poisons such as formaldehyde and mercury are well known to have a sensitising effect on the body, i.e. they cause increased susceptibility to any foreign substance that it might encounter at the same time or in the future.

4) Even the manufacturers admit to a large list of adverse effects of vaccines, including even death.

Depleted Uranium

DEPLETED URANIUM WEAPONS HAVE BEEN USED IN AUSTRALIA

"Blowin' in the Wind" deals with the aftermath of Iraq and Afghanistan and how it's
coming to our backyard.

Blowin' In The Wind is the latest film from two-time Academy Award nominee, David
Bradbury - arguably Australia's most contentious and provocative documentary filmmaker.

It examines the secret treaty that allows the US military to train and test its weaponry
on Australian soil.

It looks at the impact of recycled uranium weapons and the far-reaching physical and
moral effects on every Australian.

The film's release is timely as the government currently moves to approve more uranium
mines while arguing the contrary - that by going nuclear we are being both 'safe' and 'green'.

Blowin' In The Wind reveals that Iraqi babies are now being born with major birth defects. Bradbury
wonders whether Australians living downwind from the military testing ranges will be next.

He argues that we were lied to by the British over the Woomera and Maralinga atomic tests.

Can we trust another equally powerful partner in our 'war on terror'?

With a cash budget of just $12,000 Blowin' In The Wind raises pertinent questions which
cannot be ignored by the Australian public.

The film shocked, angered and surprised large audiences recently when shown at the
Sydney and Brisbane Film Festivals.

CONTACT: David Bradbury and Frontline Films
               Wilsons Creek NSW Australia 2482
               Phone 612 6684 0015
               Fax 612 6684 0015
               Frontline Film Foundation
               Phone 612 9533 3379
                    Website: www.frontlinefilms.com.au
                    email:     ffilms(at)mullum.com.au

Cancer

Cancer Information
Links on MCS-Global

Cancer in the Workplace

Cancer is a major health problem, to society as a whole and to the individual directly affected by the disease. Recent research papers have described the ominous consequences of our post-industrialized environment burdened with biologically active chemicals.

Numerous chemicals used in the industrial workplace have been identified as carcinogens, yet inadequate measures have been taken to develop substitute chemical compounds that are less toxic or to protect the individual workers. Only about 30% of the 70,000 chemical compounds that are registered with the Environmental Protection Agency have been tested for carcinogenicity, therefore, a majority of the chemicals commonly used in industry have unknown potentials for causing cancer.

Environmental Health News: Current Issues: CANCER

Food & Drink

FOOD ADDITIVES - how food and additives affect behaviour
Food Intolerance Network

These web pages provide:

* Independent information about the effects of food on behaviour, health and learning ability
   in both children and adults.

* Support for families using a low-chemical elimination diet free of additives, low in salicylates,
   amines and flavour enhancers (FAILSAFE) for health, behaviour and learning problems.

Additive Alert

If you care about your health you have to know what's in the food you eat
Your guide to safer shopping

It`s a sad fact, but food is not just food anymore. Over the past 50 years the use of food additives
has skyrocketed to the point where very few of us have any real idea exactly what`s in the food we
eat.

Alarmingly, the rates of diseases such as cancer, obesity, diabetes, autism, depression, asthma
and ADHD have also increased dramatically over this time. Every year, Australians consume over 5kg
of food additives each, yet how many of us really know what these chemicals do, which ones are safe
and which ones are known to be harmful?

Thankfully, not all food additives are harmful. In fact, of the 300 or so additives approved for use in
Australia, most of them are safe, well tested and pose no problem for most people.

However, there are at least 60 food additives used in our foods which are at best questionable in
terms of safety, or at worse, known to be harmful.

Our Mission at Additive Alert is to provide you with the information you need to make an informed
choice about what you feed yourself and your family today, as well as to lobby for changes to ensure
we all have better choices tomorrow.

The Chemical Maze

Our mission is to assist people from all walks of life to become
more aware of the potential health effects of food additives and
ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products

Warning:
Reading these books may seriously influence the choice of foods
you eat and the personal care products you use.

Plastics

PVC The Poison Plastic Campaign
PVC (polyvinyl chloride) products are everywhere and are dangerous to our health and
environment from start to finish - in the factory, at home, and in the trash - releasing
poisonous chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects.

The good news is that safe, cost-effective, alternatives to PVC are readily available and
responsible companies are phasing it out.

More to be added . . . Please check back . . . Thank you for your patience and your support.

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Health Risks and Environmental Issues