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• ACTA has but one aim, that is to serve and protect the interests of people whose health has been adversely affected by chemicals. It is a non-profit organisation, staffed by volunteers, with the following objectives: information exchange, education, advice, counselling, referral, and putting members in touch with each other. Additionally, ACTA works to improve the status of its members through contact with governments and bureaucrats, often with the help of other organisations and groups. A quarterly newsletter, "Update", is circulated to all financial members.
• Officers of ACTA are moving at all levels to raise awareness of the difficulties faced by those who have been disabled by chemical exposure, and through education, to limit as far as possible the spread of chemically induced illness.
• Representatives are operating in various areas, metropolitan, country and interstate. They are active in seeking publicity, recruitment, and in advancing the interests of ACTA within the guidelines set out above.
• Ordinary membership of ACTA is open to chemical victims. However, other interested parties may also apply for associate membership. 
• Only the environmentally ill truly understand the socio-economic disadvantages of their condition. In trying to gain recognition of their problems they are often misunderstood or ridiculed by unsympathetic medicos, friends and family members. The additional stresses imposed by being labelled as cranks, malingerers or hypochondriacs can be absolutely devastating when trying to cope with ill health and accompanying financial deprivation. ACTA will intervene to rectify these conditions by providing information where it is lacking, and through selective publicity.
• The time has come for all who are adversely affected by chemicals to unite under a single banner, with a view to improving their status to that experienced by their counterparts in the USA and elsewhere overseas.
• Please share your history with ACTA in an accompanying letter. Tell us about any particular problems which you have experienced since you became poisoned, the names of the doctors/specialists/lawyers who have supported your claim of being chemically affected, and those who have opposed you. Mention any specific difficulties you are now dealing with, e.g. trouble with employers, Councils, neighbours, etc. Please don't forget to name the chemical/s you were poisoned by and how this came about.
  
  Full information available from the web site at:
   The Australian Chemical Trauma Alliance Inc.

Australian Chemical Trauma Alliance Inc.
309 East Bonville Road
Bonville NSW 2441                                                                       
Australia
Email: acespade@northnet.com.au
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