Chemistry:
http://www.chem.unep.ch/
; United Nations
Environmental Programs choose Information on Persistant
Organic Pollutants (POPs) Chemicals
;
Choose link to Information on POPs
Chemicals and scroll down to research Dieldren, Dioxoins
and DDT
http://www.who.int/pcs/
World Health
Organization International Program
on Chemical Safety;
Home Page
This web site provides Risk Assessment of
Priority Chemicals. Note: 1)
Environmental Health Criteria 2) Data
sheets on Pesticides 3) Joint
FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residue Most of this may be acquired by ordering
through WHO; example given below.
Chemistry
http://www.ewg.org Environmental Working
Group The Chemical Industry
Archives: chemical
Industry Archives provides reports and news
articles. Or go to: the home page
which allows for a search of DDT 
http://www.pesticide.org/ResPHealth.html
Researching Pesticides
on the Web: A web
site that aids in the daunting task of
finding out more information on pesticides.
http://www.duke.edu/~chb7/Index.html
Duke University; Properties, Politics
and Policy, Global environmental policy and politics
of DDt.
http://www.who.int/pcs/jmpr/what_is_jmpr.html IPCS; Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations & World Health
Organization; What is JMPR? The joint
FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide
Residues (JMPR), which has been meeting
regularly since 1963, consists of the FAO Panel
of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food
and the Environment and the WHO Core
Assessment Group. 
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