• For Consumers
  • Smart Guides
  • Fact Sheets
  • Online Tools
  • Reports
• For Health Professionals
  • Fact Sheets
  • Journal Articles
  • Policy Statements
  • Reports
• For the Press
  • Press Releases
  • Interviews
• Policy Statements

For Consumers

Smart Guides

• Smart Fish Guide
• Smart Produce Guide, Short Version
• Smart Produce Guide, Long Version
• Smart Plastics Guide
• Smart Meat and Dairy Guide, Short Version
• Smart Meat and Dairy Guide, Long Version

Fact Sheets

• A Diner's Guide to Dioxin Elimination in Minnesota
• Antibiotics and Fish Farming, An Overview
• Getting the Dirt on What's in Your Fertilizer
• Map of Dioxin Sources in Minnesota
• Safe Fields, Safe Food: Keeping Toxic Industrial Waste Off the Farm and Out of Our Food
• Salmon Shoppers Guide
• Sewage Sludge & Food Safety
• 10 Things Parents Can Do to Protect Children from Environmental Threats

Online Tools

• Eat Well Guide
• Smart Fish Calculator
• Sustainable Table

Reports

• In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development
• Poultry on Antibiotics: Hazards to Human Health, Wallinga et al., December 2002, 2nd Edition; Appendix A; Appendix B
• The Price We Pay for Corporate Hogs
• Antibiotic Use in U.S. Aquaculture

For Health Professionals

Fact Sheets

• Antibiotic Resistance and Agricultural Overuse of Antibiotics: What Health Care Food Systems Can Do
  
• Antibiotics Resistance - Emerging Public Health Crisis
• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Health Risks from Air Pollution
• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Health Risks from Water Pollution
• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Health Risks to Farmers and Workers
• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Health Risks from Use of Routine Antibiotics (due 2005)
• Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Public Health and Community Impacts
• Important Drugs Lose Effectiveness Due to Use in Poultry
• Myths & Realities about Antibiotic Use in Agriculture
• A Nutrition Call to Action
• Significant Science on Antibiotic Resistance: An Annotated Bibliography
• Toxic Flame Retardants: Emerging Public Health Threat

Journal Articles

• Antimicrobial Use in Animal Feed: an Ecological and Public Health Problem, a guest editorial by Dr. David Wallinga in Minnesota Medicine, October 2002
• Addressing Externalities From Swine Production to Reduce Public Health and Environmental Impacts, a commentary co-authored by Dr. David Wallinga in the American Journal of Public Health, October 2004
• Vinyl Chloride: A Case Study of Data Suppression and Misrepresentation, by Jennifer Beth Sass, Barry Castleman and David Wallinga in Environmental Health Perspectives, March 24, 2005

Policy Statements

• Health Care Without Harm Policy Statement on Antibiotics in Food
  
• Sample Procurement Policy: Purchasing Meat, Poultry, Dairy and Seafood Produced Without Inappropriate Antibiotic Use
  

Reports

• HCWH: Beyond Pesticides - Healthy Hospitals: Controlling Pests Without Harmful Pesticides
• Industrial Animal Agriculture - the Next Global Health Crisis?

For the Press

Press Releases

• USDA Food Pyramid Clashes with FDA/EPA Safe Fish Recommendations April 2005
• Minnesota Pregnant Women Warned: Children in State May Face Higher Risk of Developmental Disabilities September 2004
• MN Fish Test Positive for Mercury, New Analysis Finds August 2004
• On-Line Fish Consumption Calculator Launched For MN Fishing Opener May 2004
• Minnesota Bill to Ban Toxic Flame Retardants Lauded by IATP February 2004
• FDA Rarely Tests For Toxic Pollutants Found in Salmon Study January 2004
• IATP Applauds American Public Health Association Call For Precautionary Moratorium on New CAFOs January 2004
• National Public Health Experts Gather in Sioux Falls to Discuss Chemical Exposure December 2003
• Eat Well Guide Launched for the Holidays November 2003
• North Minneapolis Meeting Targets Children's Health October 2003
• Governor Signs Into Law Restrictions on Arsenic in Fertilizer May 2003
• New Smart Fish Guide Helps Women Choose Fish, Avoid Toxins May 2003
• New Voter Poll: 80% of Americans Support Comprehensive Policy to Phase Out Persistent Toxic Chemical April 2003
• FDA Mercury Fish Warnings to Get 5 Times Stricter April 2003
• CDC Releases Largest Ever Report on Human Toxic Exposure January 2003
• Bacteria on Poultry Puts Consumers at Risk, New Study Finds December 2002
• Fishing Opener Raises Questions About Polluted Fish May 2002
• Widespread Antibiotic Drug Use in U.S. Aquaculture, New Report Finds March 2002
• On Eve of Home & Garden Show, Local Ag Group Calls For Full Disclosure On Fertilizer Ingredients February 2002
• Buy Antibiotic-Free Turkey This Thanksgiving November 2001
• New On-Line Consumer Guide Launched for Antibiotic-Free Meat May 2001
• Farmers & Consumers Kept in the Dark As Toxic Metals Found in Minnesota Fertilizers May 2001
• Bush Administration Decision To Delay Dioxin Report Endangers Public April 2001
• Borders Are No Barrier to Dioxin Emissions, NAFTA Commission Study Shows October 2000
• IATP Urges EPA to Quickly Phase-out of Dioxin Sources June 2000
• Save the Hotdish! MN Food Threatened By Dioxin Emissions May 2000

Interviews

• Interview with IATP's Dr. David Wallinga on overuse of antibiotics (MP3)

Policy Statements

• Proposed PBDE Flame Retardant Ban in Minnesota 2004
• Citizen Petition to U.S. EPA Seeking an Emergency Moratorium on the Land Application of Sewage Sludge (Document undated, released December 31, 2003)
• U.S. EPA?s response to Citizen Petition regarding sewage sludge application
• Legislative Summary: The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2005 (S. 742/H.R. 2562)