For those of you who like to keep up on these things, here’s another new report urging more precaution on wireless, GMO’s, nanotechnology, and more. Our current system allows new things to be unleashed on us without proper safety testing and precaution. At 750 (free) pages, it’s a bit longer than a tweet or a fb update, but delving into it could change your life, and give you the resources to help create more urgently required changes around you.
Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation
The first volume of Late Lessons, published in 2001, was a ground breaking report detailing the history of technologies subsequently found to be harmful. The new 750-page volume includes 20 new case studies, with far-reaching implications for policy, science and society.
Case studies include the stories behind industrial mercury poisoning; fertility problems caused by pesticides; hormone-disrupting chemicals in common plastics; and pharmaceuticals that are changing ecosystems. The report also considers the warning signs emerging from technologies currently in use, including mobile phones, genetically modified organisms and nanotechnology.
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The 2013 Late lessons from early warnings report is the second of its type produced by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in collaboration with a broad range of external authors and peer reviewers. The case studies across both volumes of Late lessons from early warnings cover a diverse range of chemical and technological innovations, and highlight a number of systemic problems. The ‘Late Lessons Project’ illustrates how damaging and costly the misuse or neglect of the precautionary principle can be, using case studies and a synthesis of the lessons to be learned and applied to maximising innovations whilst minimising harms.
You can download a section or the whole report (they even have a kindle (mobi) version): http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/late-lessons-2
Seriously "Sensitive" to Pollution 
Although most certainly true, an average person, through careand moderation of exposure can prevent harmful effects, most of the time. This includes people like myself, who have become cured of MCS.
If you are cured, why were you looking for “a doctor to certify that I have any residual MCS or ES” and going to court, like you have mentioned in previous comments?
Regarding the rest of your comment, the average person doesn’t know they need to protect themselves.
Here is another report of interest:
“Early Exposures to Hazardous Pollutants/Chemicals and Associations with Chronic Disease – A Scoping Review”
http://www.healthyenvironmentforkids.ca/resources/EE-andCD-scoping-review
And yet another one:
“America’s Children and the Environment” is an EPA report that presents key information on environmental stressors that can affect children’s health. In January 2013, EPA released an updated third edition of this report (ACE3) that shows the status and trends of:
– Environments and Contaminants (contaminants in air, water, food, and soil and other environmental conditions),
– Biomonitoring (chemicals measured in the bodies of mothers and children), and
– Health (childhood diseases and health outcomes).
http://www.epa.gov/envirohealth/children/
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Thanks Janice! And thanks for all you post!