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WA Department of Health Fish Consumption Advisory
The WA DOH website "Fish Facts for Healthy Consumption" includes advice for women and children who eat fish. It also has guides specific to certain fish and to state regions, such as the Puget Sound Fish Consumption Advice Fact Sheet.
Washington State Department of Health, October 26, 2006

No Link Between Vaccines and Autism
A literature review by a committee of independent experts convened by the Institute of Medicine concludes there is no link between vaccines and autism.
FDA Consumer magazine, September-October 2004 Issue

Hair Sample Testing
What Can Hair Sample Testing Tell Me About Environmental Exposures?ATSDR believes many scientific issues need to be resolved before hair analysis can become a useful tool to understand environmental exposures. Although hair analysis may answer some questions about environmental exposure to a few substances, hair analysis often raises more questions than it answers.
ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry), CDC, 2003