Selected Web Sites for Health and Environmental Information
NOTE: Most links on this page are pointers to other hosts and locations in the Internet. This information is provided as a service; however the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not endorse, approve or otherwise support these sites.
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry-ToxFAQs
- http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html
- For public health consultative support from ATSDR during industrial
chemical emergencies, call 404-498-0120: fax 404-498-0056.
- BIOTEC-Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Biotechnology Program
- http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/biotech/
- BIOTEC-US Department of Agriculture: Biotechnology
- http://www.aphis.usda.gov
- BIOTEC-Information Systems for Biotechnology
- http://www.nbiap.vt.edu/
- BIOTEC-BINAS: The Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service
- http://binas.unido.org/binas/binas.html
- BIOTEC-BIO - Biotechnology Industry Organization
- http://www.bio.org/
- California Fact Sheets
- http://www.arb.ca.gov/html/fslist.htm
- California: Toxics Database
- Community Right-to-Know Toxic Release Inventory
- http://www.rtk.net
- Canadian Network of Toxicology Centres
- http://www.uoguelph.ca/cntc/
- Carcinogencic Potency Database Project (CPDB)
- http://potency.berkeley.edu/cpdb.html
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- http://www.cdc.gov/
- For public health consultative support from the CDC during natural disasters or oil spills, call 770-488-7100: fax 770-488-7107.
- Centers for Disease Control-Biosafety
- http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/biosfty/bmbl4/bmbl4toc.htm
- Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
- http://www.ciesin.org/
- Defense Environmental Network and Information Exchange
- http://denix.cecer.army.mil/denix/denix.html
- Department of Defense Tri-Service Toxicology Consortium
- http://www.navy.al.wpafb.af.mil/
- Department of Transportation/HAZMAT
- http://hazmat.dot.gov
- Disaster Information Network
- http://www.disaster.net
- DOE/Argonne National Laboratory
- http://www.anl.gov
- Duke Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- http://occ-env-med.mc.duke.edu/oem
- Florida Disease Fact Sheets
- http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Disease_ctrl/epi/diseases.htm
- Food and Drug Administration/Food Safety
- http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
- Hazardous & Toxic Substances, Occupational Safety & Health Administration
- http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/hazardoustoxicsubstances/index.html
- Household Products Toxics Database
- http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm
- Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
- http://www.epa.gov/iriswebp/iris/index.html
- International Agency for Research on Cancer
- http://www.iarc.fr/
- Institute of Medicine
- http://www.iom.edu
- Joint United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Chemicals / World Health Organization Global Environmental Epidemiology Network (GEENET) Web Site
- http://irptc.unep.ch/
- Mayo Clinic's Home Page
- http://www.mayo.edu
- National Center for Environmental Assessment (diesel, MTBE and other assessments)
- http://www.epa.gov/ncea/
- National Library of Medicine (PubMed can be accessed at this site)
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
- New Jersey Chemical Fact Sheets
- http://www.state.nj/us/health/eoh/rtkweb/
- NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
- http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npg.html
- National Agricultural Library (NAL)
- http://www.nalusda.gov/
- National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
- http://www.niehs.nih.gov/
- http://www.niehs.nih.gov/external/faq/freon.htm
- National Toxicology Program
- http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/
- New England Journal of Medicine
- http://www.nejm.org/
- NOAA/Hazardous Materials Response and Assessment Division
- http://http://response.restoration.noaa.gov
- Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances Chemical Fact Sheets
- http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/chemfact/
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- http://www.osha.gov/
- Pan American Health Organization
- http://www.paho.org
- PCB congeners, homologs, mixtures
- http://www.epa.gov/toxteam/pcbid/
- United Nations Environment Programme
- http://www.unep.org/
- USGS Biological Information (not-medical)
- http://www.nbii.gov/
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- http://www.hrsa.gov
- World Health Organization
- http://www.who.int/
Please let us know of other university or government health and environmental information Web sites that should be added to this listing and notify us of any broken links by email to atw@epa.gov or call 919-541-5347.