Reference List for Healthy Toys Database Summary
listed by chemical in alphabetical order
Antimony
ATSDR. 1992. Toxicological Profile for Antimony. Accessible at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp23.html
Choe, S, S Kim, H Kim, JH Lee, Y Choi, H Lee, and Y Kim. 2003. Evaluation of estrogenicity of major heavy metals. The Science of the Total Environment 312 (15-21).
Arsenic
ATSDR. 2007. Toxicological Profile for Arsenic. Accessible at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp2.html
Wasserman GA, Liu X, Parvez F, Ahsan H, Factor-Litvak P, van Green A, V Slavkovich V et al. 2004. Water arsenic exposure and children’s intellectual function in Araihazar, Bangladesh. Environmental Health Perspectives 112(13):1329-33.
Bromine
ATSDR. 2004. Toxicological Profile for Polybrominated Biphenyls and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers. Accessible at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp68.html
Darnerud PO. 2003. Toxic effects of brominated flame retardants in man and wildlife. Environment International 29:841-853.
Ericksson P, Jakobsson E, Fredriksson A. 2001. Brominated flame retardants: a novel class of developmental neurotoxicants in our environment? Environmental Health Perspectives 109(9):903-908.
McDonald T. 2005. Polybrominated diphenylether levels among United States residents: daily intake and risk of harm to the developing brain and reproductive organs. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 1(4): 343-354.
Zhou T, Taylor MM, DeVito MJ, Crofton KM. 2002. Developmental exposure to brominated diphenyl ethers results in thyroid hormone disruption. Toxicological Sciences 66:105-106.
Cadmium
ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry). 1999. Toxicological Profile for Cadmium. CAS #7440-43-9.
European Union 2003. Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 2003 on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment Official Journal L 037, 13/02/2003 P. 0019 - 0023.
Gilbert S. 2004. A Small Dose of Toxicology: The Health Effects of Common Chemicals. CRC Press, New York.
Huff, J. et al. 2007. Cadmium-induced Cancers in Animals and in Humans.
International Journal of Occupational Environmental Health 13:202–212.
Schantz S, Widholm J. 2001. Cognitive Effects of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Animals. Environmental Health Perspectives 109(12):1197-1206.
Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse (TPCH). 2007. An Assessment of Heavy Metals in Packaging: Screening Results Using a Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzer. Available at http://www.toxicsinpackaging.org/adobe/TPCH_Final_Report_June_2007.pdf. Accessed October 30, 2007.
Chromium
ATSDR. 2000. Toxicological Profile for Chromium. Accessible at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp7.html
Lead
ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry). 2005. Toxicological Profile for Lead. CAS #7439-92-1.
California Legislature 2007. Assembly Bill 1681 at http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/LeadInJewelry.cfm accessed October 30, 2007.
Code of Federal Regulations 2007. Ban of Lead-Containing Paint and Certain Consumer Products Bearing Lead Containing Paint, Title 16, Pt. 1303.
European Union 2003. Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 2003 on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment Official Journal L 037, 13/02/2003 P. 0019 - 0023.
Federal Register 2007. Children's Jewelry Containing Lead; Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; Request for Comments and Information Federal Register 72:5 January 9, 2007 pp. 920-922.
Gilbert S. 2004. A Small Dose of Toxicology: The Health Effects of Common Chemicals. CRC Press, New York.
Illinois General Assembly 2006. Illinois Public Act 094-0879 at http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0879
Accessed October 30, 2007.
Lanphear B. et al. 2005. Low-level environmental lead exposure and children’s intellectual function: an international pooled analysis. Environmental Health Perspectives 113(7):894-899.
Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse (TPCH). 2007. An Assessment of Heavy Metals in Packaging: Screening Results Using a Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzer. Available at http://www.toxicsinpackaging.org/adobe/TPCH_Final_Report_June_2007.pdf. Accessed October 30, 2007.
Mercury
ATSDR. 1999. Toxicological Profile for Mercury. Accessible at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp46.html
Phthalates
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. 2000. “Preliminary list of chemicals associated with endocrine system effects in animals and humans or in vitro” in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2000. Handbook for Non-Cancer Health Effects Valuation, Appendix C.; and California Prop 65 List. Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Reproductive Toxicity: DEHP (2003), BBP(2005), DBP (2005), DnHP (2005), DIDP (2007). http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65.html, accessed Oct. 2007.
Main, M.K. et al. 2006 "Human Breast Milk Contamination with Phthalates and Alterations of Endogenous Reproductive Hormones in Infants Three Months of Age", Environmental Health Perspectives 114, 270-276. http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/8075/8075.html, accessed Oct. 2007.
Marsee, K. et al. 2006. “Estimated Daily Phthalate Exposures in a Population of Mothers of Male Infants Exhibiting Reduced Anogenital Distance” Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 114, Number 6, 805-809. http://www.ehponline.org/members/2006/8663/8663.html, accessed Oct. 2007.
Swan, S. et al. 2005. “Decrease in Anogenital Distance among Male Infants with Prenatal Phthalate Exposure” Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 113, Number 8, 1056-1061. http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/8100/8100.html, accessed Oct. 2007.
Tin
ATSDR. 2005. Toxicological Profile for Tin. Accessible at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp55.html
Cooke GM, H Tryphonas, O Pulido, D Caldwell, GS Bondy, and D Forsyth. Oral (gavage), in utero and postnatal exposure of Sprague-Dawley rats to low doses of tributyltin chloride. Part I: Toxicology, histopathology, and clinical chemistry. Food and Chemical Toxicology 42:211-220.
Jenkins SM, K Ehman, S Barone. 2004. Structure-acitivity comparison of organotin species: dibutyltin is a developmental neurotoxicant in vitro and in vivo. Developmental Brain Research 151(1-12).
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