ACS symposium; endocrine disrupting chemicals

[ttweed@wildrockies.org (Tony Tweedale)]

>Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:49:27 -0500
>
>A symposium on endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment is being
>organized for the 219th American Chemical Society (ACS)  Meeting in San
>Francisco, CA in March 2000. In August 1999 at the ACS in New Orleans, LA
>the Division of Environmental Chemistry held a  symposium on "Analytical
>Challenges for Assessing Environmental Exposures to Children." Endocrine
>disrupting chemicals were some of the topics of concern at this symposium.
>Information from abstracts and notes taken at the symposium are also linked
>from this web site at http://www.acs-envchem.duq.edu/eeds.htm.
>
>Links are also provided to a new web site with a free PowerPoint slide show
>summary on Preventing Children's Exposure to Endocrine Disruptors - A
>Teaching Aid. A larger, comprehensive slide show is also commercially
>available at this site (http://www.instantref.com/children.htm). These
>slide shows provide an overview of what is known and what is not yet known
>about these chemical pollutants at a level that everyone can understand.
>The slides may be used with Microsoft's ? PowerPoint? Viewer for
>presentations or printed for handouts. Teachers will be able to use these
>slides for materials that can be used to discuss this topic at PTA
>meetings, other community and public outreach forums, and in the classroom.
>