• Child's Exposure to Pesticides Hikes Lymphoma Risk, posted on CHEC FORUM, November 10, 2001, by Chive Mynde -- (Reference: "Pesticide Exposures in Children with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma," Jonathan D Buckley, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Anna T. Meadows, M.D., Marshall E. Kadin, M.D, Michelle M. Le Beau, Ph.D., Stuart Siegel, M.D., and Leslie L. Robison, Ph.D., CANCER 2000; 89:11.)

• Pesticide pollution is linked to cancer, Nick Nuttall, Environmental Correspondent, The Times (London), December 17, 1999

• The release of the Consumers Union report "Do You Know What You're Eating" has sparked the debate on the SANET discussion group (Sustainable Agriculture Network) on farmers health and pesticides.

• November 14, 1997 Associated Press article reports "Pesticides on Food 'Almost No' Cancer Danger", based on the editorial by Clark W. Heath, Jr., M.D. and Report of a Panel on the Relationship between Public Exposure to Pesticides and Cancer by Len Ritter for the Ad Hoc Panel on Pesticides and Cancer, Canadian Network of Toxicology Centres, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. in Cancer 80:1887-8, 1997.

  Charles Benbrook offers another view on the health risks posed by pesticides and the message scientific organizations ought to be sharing with the public.

• Environmental Research Foundation's review of Sandra Steingraber's new book, LIVING DOWNSTREAM --AN ECOLOGIST LOOKS AT CANCER AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 'Despite the fact that, in the U.S. today, in the age group 35 to 64, cancer is the number one killer, this book has been greeted with nearly total silence..' "...a book by a qualified scientist examining all the lines of evidence linking cancer to chemical contamination of the environment AND OFFERING SOLUTIONS."

• The Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA) establishes new standards governing the setting of tolerances for cancer causing pesticides

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