Created: Jan 05, 2007
Updated: May 31, 2007
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Toxic and Hazardous Substances

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Hazardous substances are polluting materials and wastes that are harmful to public health and to the environment, and are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, explosive, or chemically reactive.


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The Toxic Links Coalition is a growing alliance of community groups, women with cancer and cancer survivors, health care and environmental justice organizations, silicone survivors, women with endometriosis, and other reproductive disorders, and concerned individuals working together to educate our communities about the links between environmental toxins and the decline in public health.


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