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ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS, References - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Farmers spray pesticides on cranberry bogs north of reservation
      - Foresteres spray herbicides on surrounding forest
      - High levels of pesticides in drainage areas
  - - - DDT spraying in boreal forests to remove budworm infestations around 1940s
        
        Can alter sexual development and reproduction
        
        Correlation between pregnancy child deaths and areas with high levels of pesticides including DDt
      - 2-2.5 times the national average of premature prenatal, stillbirth, and newborn deaths
  - - - Another 14 year old female had 12 hormone disruptors and 17 reproductive/developmental toxins
  - - - Canadian government advised citiznes to eat most Lake Superior trout
        
        Trade-off between beliefs and possible health harms
    - - Tribal health departments urged members to eat more traditional/country food to reduce risk of diabetes, heart disease, and obesity from average American diet
- - - - Produces hormones that act as signaling molecules
      - Made up of endocrine glands throughout the body
    - - By Exposure
        
        Chemicals in products
        
        Food contact materials
        
        Pesticides
      - By Origin
        
        Drugs with hormonal side effects
        
        Industrial and household chemicals
        
        Natural and artificial hormones
        
        Side products of industrial and household processes
      - By Production
        
        Synthetic
        
        Plasticizers
        
        Pesticides
        
        Plastics
        
        Fungicide
        
        Industrial solvents/lubricants and their byproducts
        
        Some pharmaceutical agents
        
        Natural
        
        Found in human and animal food
    - - Phenolic ring with no halogens, sulphone functional groups, chlorine and bromine substitution next to OH group in phenolic ring is required for EDC activity
- - - - Supports in identifying, investigrating, and characterizing the impoact of exposure to environmental hazards
        
        Through research, monitoring, risk assessment, risk communication, and knowledge integration
    - - Mohawk Council of Kanesatake’s Environmental Contaminants Health and Impact Project
      - Dietary exposure of Maliseet First Nations in New Brunswick to chemical contaminants due to consumption of traditional food
      - Assessment of beaver tissue quality in the traditional territory of the Chipewyan Prairie Déné First Nation
      - Investigation of Radon Concentrations in Homes in Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation) in New Brunswick
      - Community-based monitoring study establishing baseline fish mercury and heavy metal concentration in the traditional territory of Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach
      - Assessing Indoor Exposure to Radon Gas and related Health Impacts at Red Earth Cree Nation