The National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC) is a cooperative effort between Oregon State University and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The NPIC has fact sheets about pesticide safety issues relating to home and garden use, food, water, and pets. They also have detailed information about pesticide manufacturers, chemicals found in products, pesticide labels, and more. You can call them at 1-800-858-7378 or email them at npic@ace.orst.edu.

This Web site gives you information about toxic chemicals and environmental health risks that you might encounter in everyday life, in everyday places. The site is very user-friendly. You click on simple graphics and are directed to specific information that you are interested in learning about.

The National Library of Medicine is a division of the United States National Institutes of Health.

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, works to serve the public by using the best science, taking responsive public health actions, and providing trusted health information to prevent harmful exposures and disease related to toxic substances.

Established in 1987, the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics, a nonprofit organization, is committed to improving the practice of occupational and environmental health through information sharing and collaborative research.

The Children's Environmental Health Network is a national, multidisciplinary organization. Its mission is to protect the fetus and child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment.

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) uses environmental health sciences to understand the causes of disease and to improve human health. NIEHS research focuses on complex human disease and calls for scientists to investigate a broad spectrum of disease factors including environmental agents, genetics, age, diet, and activity levels.

The EPA's mission is to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment-air, water, and land-upon which life depends.