Resources: Organizations, Books, Alternative Products

Organizations
Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste,
P.O. Box 6806, Falls Church, VA
22040. Tel: 703-237-2249.

Endometriosis Association,
8585 N. 76th Place,
Milwaukee, Wl 53223.
Tel: 800-992-3636.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Website: http://www.fda.gov.
The FDA Center for Devices and
Radiological Health has an on-line fact
Sheet entitled "Tampons and Asbestos,
Dioxin and Toxic Shock Syndrome",
which can be located by the search
engine on the general FDA website.

Books
The Curse: confronting the last
unmentionable taboo: menstruation.
By Karen Houppert. New York: Ferrar,
Straus and Giroux, 1999.

Whitewash: exposing the health and
environmental dangers of women's
sanitary products and disposable
diapers—what you can do about it.
By Liz Armstrong and Adrienne Scott.
Toronto: HarperCollins, 1992.

Alternative product manufacturers
Glad Rags
PO Box 12648
Portland, Oregon 97212
Toll Free 1.800.799.4523
Tel: 503.282.0436, Fax: 503.284.9883
Email: info@gladrags.com
http://www.teleport.com/~gladrags

Health Keeper Inc.
83 Stonegate Drive
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2A 2Y8
Tel: 519.896.8032
http://www.keeper.com

Natracare
191 University Blvd., Suite 294
Denver, CO 80206
Tel: 303.320.1510, Fax 303.320.3901
Email: natra@indra.com
http://www.indra.com/natracare

Organic Essentials, Inc.
Route 1, Box 120
O'Donnell, TX 79351
Tel: 1.800.765.6491
E-mail: organicessentials@juno.com
http://www.organicessentials.com

Seventh Generation
One Mill Street, Box A-26
Burlington, VT 05401-1530
Tel: 802.658.3773, Fax: 802.658.1771
Email: recycle@seventhgen.com
http://www.seventhgen.com