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Title A-Z Z-A	Author A-Z Z-A	Date 1-9 9-1
Fish and Marine Conservation	IATP
Industrial Fish Farming Reform	IATP
Transgenic Fish	IATP
Go Wild Campaign	IATP
Labels, Standards, and Regulations	IATP
Research, Policy Analysis and Information Dissemination	IATP
Direct Marketing of Certified Wild Fish	IATP
Consumers' Right to Know	IATP
Rural Community Development	IATP
Protecting Streams, Estuaries, and Coastal Waterways	IATP
Promoting Fish Friendly Farming, Ranching and Forestry	IATP
International Fisheries Trade and Investment	IATP
Staff	IATP
Hotline	IATP
Policy Research, Education and Advocacy	IATP
Human Health Risks Associated with Salmon Farming	Warren Bell and Sergio Paone
Fish, Pigs,Poultry, and Pandora's Box: Integrated Aquaculture and Human Influenza	Mike Skladany
Some Thoughts on "Feeding the World" through Industrial Aquaculture	Mike Skladany
Antibiotics and Fish Farming	IATP
Antibiotic Drug Use in U.S. Aquaculture	Charles M. Benbrook
Press Advisory: Whatcom County Council to Vote on Salmon Farming in Washington Waters, August 13, 2002 7:00pm	Anne Mosness
Resolution #02-78 Moratorium on Commercial Marine Salmon net Pens & Support for Tribal Salmon Fisheries	Affiliated Tribest of Northwest Indians
Healthiest Catch, The	L. Murphy
Preparatory Actions in the Field of Dioxin and PCBs	European POPs Expert Team
Opinion of the SCF on the Risk Assessment of Dioxins and Dioxin-like PCBs in Food	European Scientific Committee on Food
Salmon Shoppers Guide, A	IATP
Fishy Tale, A	L. Lockwood
Letter to NMFS on Offshore Aquaculture	Jane McCloskey
Antibiotic resistance in benthic bacteria in fish-farm and control sediments of the Western Mediterranean	Elisabetta Chelossi, Luigi Vezzulli, Anna Milano,
Colorants, Supermarkets and the National Lawsuit filed by Smith and Lowney of Seattle April-May, 2003	Various News Services
Farmed Fish & Omega-3 Fatty Acids	Ronald W. Hardy
Solar Water Heating at a British Columbia Tilapia Farm	Morgan McDonald
Open Ocean Aquaculture Project	IATP
Fish at Risk: Why Wild Salmon Matter	IATP
LDDI Meeting Notes 4.27.06	Kathleen Schuler	December 30, 1899
27k Document summary LDDI Meeting Notes 4.27.06
LDDi Meeting Notes 2.23.06	Kathleen Schuler	December 30, 1899
58k Document summary Follow-up meet ing to LDDI conference, Stevens Ave. conference room about 30 attendees.
Exposure to exogenous estrogens in food: possible impact on human development and health	Anna-Maria Andersson and Niels E. Skakkebaek	June 1, 1999
177k Document summary There has been increasing concern about the impact of environmental compounds with hormone-like action on human development and reproductive health over the past decades. An alternative but neglected source of hormone action that may be considered in this connection is hormone residues in meat from husbandry animals treated with sex steroid hormones for growth promotion.
Innovative Financial Mechanisms that Promote Conservation	Cameron, M. Muller, M.	February 14, 2002
588k Document summary Examples of private and governmental initiatives showing the potential of financial incentives to promote sustainable practices in agriculture.
Incentives for Wildlife Enhancement on Midwestern Farms	Robles, M.	February 26, 2002
846k Document summary A resource booklet for Midwestern farmers, ranchers, and other rural landowners with an interest in promoting wildlife on their land. This booklet provides ideas, strategies, and examples of incentives that support wildlife enhancement. PART 2.
Incentives for Wildlife Enhancement on Midwestern Farms	Robles, M.	February 26, 2002
1515k Document summary A resource booklet for Midwestern farmers, ranchers, and other rural landowners with an interest in promoting wildlife on their land. This booklet provides ideas, strategies, and examples of incentives that support wildlife enhancement. PART 1.
U.S. Endeavor to 'Feed the World' Implications for Farmer Income, Food Security, and the Environment, The	Muller, M.	March 18, 2002
17k Document summary The United States' Army Corps of Engineers is considering an expansion of the navigation infrastructure on the Mississippi River. The project will facilitate the export of U.S. grains from the Midwest out to the Gulf of Mexico. Expanded navigation on the Mississippi is strongly advocated by many large agribusiness interests and commodity groups. These organizations subscribe to the belief that increased exports will result in a higher price for these grains and subsequently increase farmer income. The exports are expected to improve the food security of low-income, food-deficit countries. This message resonates well with the popular belief that exploding populations and global food shortages necessitate greater U.S. grain production in order to 'feed the world'. This rationale also justifies intensive fertilizer and chemical use, large confined animal feeding operations, and the use of genetically modified crops.
Will 'Kervorkian economics' destroy family farms?	Levins, R.	March 18, 2002
8k Document summary After working with farmers in south central Minnesota, economist Dick Levins notes some discouraging trends, which he shared with Minnesota legislators on an interim rural issues study committee. This is an edited account of his August 25 testimony in Alexandria, Minnesota.
Antibiotic Drug Use in U.S. Aquaculture Press Release	Ben Lilliston	March 21, 2002
8k Document summary Press release for a report on Antibiotic Drug Use in U.S. Aquaculture
Sodium Hydroxide Solution - MERCURY CELL GRADE	KA Steel Chemicals	September 12, 2002
15k Document summary MCCSA PDF
Myth: Barges are the most fuel efficient mode of transportation for agricultural commodities	IATP staff	October 23, 2002
114k Document summary Fact sheet addressing the myth tha barges are the most fuel efficient mode of transportation for agricultural commodities
Poultry on Antibiotics: Hazards to Human Health	David Wallinga, Navis Bermudez, Edward Hopkins	December 1, 2002
376k Document summary This is the first study to examine brand-name poultry products at the retail level for the presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including resistance to medicines relied upon to treat human infections.
Comment on Section 9006 of the 2002 Farm Bill	Mark Muller, Lina Gordy	December 10, 2002
341k Document summary IATP's comment submitted to the Rural Business and Cooperative Service
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in U.S. Mothers’ Milk	Arnold Schecter,1 Marian Pavuk,1 Olaf Päpke,2 John Jake Ryan,3 Linda Birnbaum,4 and Robin Rosen	November 1, 2003
146k Document summary A recent study found levels of PBDE flame retardants in U.S. women's breast milk to be 10-100 times higher than reported levels in European women.
Fact Sheet: Increasing Navigation Efficiency on the Mississippi without Lock Expansion	Heather Schoonover and Mark Muller	November 26, 2003
268k Document summary Proponents of navigation expansion have long maintained that the only way to eliminate traffic delays on the Mississippi River is to expand the locks, a project that would cost over two billion dollars, take decades to complete and do little to benefit small farmers, rural communities or the environment. On the contrary, a number of small-scale, non-structural measures exist that would increase navigation efficiency immediately, cost much less to implement and better benefit everyone involved. This fact sheet explores these non-structural measures.
Offshore Aquaculture Fact Sheet	IATP	January 1, 2004
How to Make it Work: Required Policy Transformations for Agroecosystem	Dennis Keeney and Loni Kemp	August 4, 2004
273k Document summary Dennis Keeney and Loni Kemp combined their expertise to explain the driving forces in agriculture today, including policy and technology, and to point the way to a new green payments approach for U.S. farm policy.
Mercury and Developmental Disabilities in Minnesota's Children	State Environmental Leadership Program and IATP	September 1, 2004
25k Document summary The danger posed by mercury is of greatest concern for pregnant women and the risk of developmental disabilities in their offspring. What has not yet been discussed is that pregnant women and children in certain states -- including Minnesota -- may face an above-average risk of unsafe mercury levels and resulting childhood learning problems. This briefing paper explores what is understood about mercury and the danger posed to Minnesota’s children.
Addressing Externalities From Swine Production to Reduce Public Health and Environmental Impacts	David Osterberg, MS, and David Wallinga, MD	October 1, 2004
112k Document summary Article published in American Journal of Public Health, October 2004, Vol. 94, No. 10.
Vulcan webpage - Caustic soda production		October 5, 2004
132k Document summary Vulcan webpage - Caustic soda production
Vulcan spec sheet - caustic soda		October 5, 2004
100k Document summary Vulcan spec sheet - caustic soda
Vulcan technical data sheet - caustic soda		October 5, 2004
156k Document summary Vulcan technical data sheet - caustic soda
California County Initiatives Banning Genetically Engineered Organisms	Renata Brillinger, Californians for GE-Free Agriculture	October 15, 2004
80k Document summary Fact sheet prepared by Californians for GE-Free Agriculture outlines the risks and problems associated genetically engineered crops.
Antibiotic Resistance and Agricultural Overuse of Antibiotics	Health Care Without Harm	October 22, 2004
98k Document summary Over the last century, Western medicine has made tremendous advances in fighting infectious disease. One of the keys to success has been the development of antibiotics -- compounds that kill disease-causing bacteria or inhibit their reproduction. Unfortunately, effective antibiotics are threatened by a global crisis in antibiotic resistance.
Health Care Without Harm Policy Statement on Antibiotics in Food	Health Care Without Harm	October 26, 2004
170k Document summary The majority of U.S. antibiotics currently are given to animals, with a substantial proportion given to food animals without any diagnosed illness (non-therapeutic use), either to promote growth or to compensate for the infectious risk stemming from crowded, stressful, and often unsanitary conditions. Hospitals and health care institutions have a substantial interest in ensuring that existing antibiotics remain effective for treating human infections as long as possible.
Sample Procurement Policy: Purchasing Meat, Poultry, Dairy and Seafood Produced Without Inappropriate Antibiotic Use	Health Care Without Harm	October 26, 2004
106k Document summary Health-care facilities purchase significant quantities of foodstuffs. Buying meat, poultry, dairy and seafood products produced with fewer antibiotics therefore helps expand the market demand for these products, stimulating production and ultimately driving prices down.
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Health Risks from Air Pollution	David Wallinga, MD	November 2, 2004
85k Document summary Just 5% of U.S. farms account for 54% of its beef and dairy cattle, swine, and poultry, concentrating manure as well as animals. These industrial-scale operations, called CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) or factory farms, produce 575 billion pounds of manure yearly. Manure concentration contributes to air and water pollution, and likely to antibiotic resistance, impacting both workers and neighbors. This factsheet outlines the health risks from air pollution caused by CAFOs.
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Health Risks to Farmers and Workers	Daivd Wallinga, MD	November 2, 2004
98k Document summary Just 5% of U.S. farms account for 54% of its beef and dairy cattle, swine, and poultry, concentrating manure as well as animals. These industrial-scale operations, called CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) or factory farms, produce 575 billion pounds of manure yearly. Manure concentration contributes to air and water pollution, and likely to antibiotic resistance, impacting both workers and neighbors. This factsheet outlines the health risks to farmers and farm workers.
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Health Risks from Water Pollution	David Wallinga, MD	November 2, 2004
183k Document summary Just 5% of U.S. farms account for 54% of its beef and dairy cattle, swine, and poultry, concentrating manure as well as animals. These industrial-scale operations, called CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) or factory farms, produce 575 billion pounds of manure yearly. Manure concentration contributes to air and water pollution, and likely to antibiotic resistance, impacting both workers and neighbors. This factsheet outlines the health risks from air pollution caused by CAFOs.
10 Things Parents Can Do to Protect Children from Environmental Threats	Kathleen Schuler	November 3, 2004
134k Document summary Easy things a parent can do around the house to reduce exposure to environmental threats.
Purchase of Local and/or Organic Foods for Patients and Cafeterias	Marie Kulick	November 3, 2004
49k Document summary Case study of the purchase of local and/or organic foods for patients and cafeterias through the Hospital Food Project (NHS), London, England
Toxic Flame Retardants: Emerging Public Health Threat	Kathleen Schuler	November 5, 2004
73k Document summary Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a widely used class of brominated flame retardants, are leaving a lasting toxic legacy in the environment and in human beings.
Smart Fish Guide	Kathleen Schuler	November 15, 2004
108k Document summary Safer, Sustainable Fish Consumption for Healthier Children and a Healthier Environment
Industrial Animal Agriculture - the Next Global Health Crisis?	World Society for the Protection of Animals	November 16, 2004
379k Document summary This is a report prepared by the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) for presentation at the World Health Organisation, Global Forum for Health Research, Mexico City, Mexico, 16-20 November 2004. An expanded report will be produced following the conference.
New Study Strengthens Link between Antibiotic Overuse in Food Animals and Dangerous Complications of Food Poisoning	Keep Antibiotics Working	January 24, 2005
38k Document summary Study Finds Strong Association between Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella and Potentially Deadly Bloodstream Infections
Vinyl Chloride: A Case Study of Data Suppression and Misrepresentation	Jennifer Beth Sass, Barry Castleman, & David Wallinga	March 24, 2005
1555k Document summary Commentary looking at EPA handling of data on vinyl chloride.