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RESOURCES

On this page you can find useful information about pesticides health issues from various federal and nonfederal resources.

Federal

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • National Agricultural Safety Database
    Provides general information as well as safety tips for handling pesticides ...more
  • National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
    • Reducing Exposure to Pesticides
      Provides information on CDC’s work to reduce pesticide exposures ...more
    • Pesticides
      Provides additional information on CDC’s work to reduce pesticide exposures ...more
    • Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
      Provides a report on pesticide exposure within the US population ...more
  • National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID)
    • Q&A: Pesticides Used To Control Mosquitoes
      Provides answers to common questions about pesticides and mosquito control ...more
    • Pesticides and Public Health: Integrated Methods of Mosquito Management
      Contains an article on public health pesticides ...more
    • DEET Fact Sheet [PDF, 19 Kb]
      Provides information on DEET (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide), an active ingredient in many insect repellent products.
  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
    • Pesticide Illness & Injury Surveillance
      Contains general pesticide information, additional links, and information from the Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risk (SENSOR) program that tracks acute occupational pesticide-related illness and injury ...more
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
  • ToxFAQs
    Can be searched for information on specific pesticides ...more
  • Public Health Statements
    Can be searched for information on specific pesticides ...more
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Citizen's Guide to Pest Control and Pesticide Safety [external link] [PDF, 2.4 Mb]
    Provides information on pest control and pesticide safety.
  • Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) of 1996 [external link]
    Explains FQPA, which amended the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), fundamentally changing the way EPA regulates pesticides ...more
  • Pesticide Program [external link]
    Provides information on several pesticide topics including human safety, environmental effects, chemical information, pesticide registration, and legislation ...more
  • Registering Pesticides [external link]
    Contains information on the process of and the governing laws for registering and re-registering pesticides ...more
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition [external link]
    Contains guidance documents, residue monitoring reports, and technical references ...more
• National Institute of Health (NIH)
  • Medline [external link]
    Contains news, articles, and links to other sites about pesticides and information on prevention and screening, research, conditions, organizations, and children ...more
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [external link]
    Under Pesticides heading, provides news, frequently asked questions and answers, and additional information ...more
  • National Library of Medicine
    • Pesticide Exposure [external link]
      Addresses the relationship between pesticides and human health, and provides links to sites on pesticides exposure, treatment, and prevention ...more
    • West Nile Virus: Pesticides Used for Mosquito Control [external link]
      Contains information on pesticides used to control West Nile Virus ...more
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
  • Mid-continent Agricultural Chemical Research Project [external link]
    Lists pesticide sources and water quality information ...more
  • National Water Quality Assessment Data Warehouse [external link]
    Provides information about pesticide contamination and water quality ...more
  • Pesticide National Synthesis Project [external link]
    Provides information about the national assessment of pesticides in the streams, rivers, and ground waters of the United States ...more
  • Toxic Substances Hydrology Program [external link]
    Contains information on environmental contamination (see Agricultural Chemical Section for pesticide information) ...more

Nonfederal

• American Association of Poison
  Control Centers (AAPCC)
  • National Poison Data System [external link]
    Contains data on reported pesticide poisonings ...more
• Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Pesticide Management & Pollution [external link]
    Contains information about international codes and guidelines for pesticide use ...more
• National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)
  • NPIC: A Cooperative Effort of Oregon State University and EPA [external link]
    Provides general, technical, regulatory, manufacturer, pest control, and emergency information about pesticides; includes additional resources ...more
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  • Prior Informed Consent Treaty [external link]
    Contains information about the treaty requiring exporters trading certain hazardous substances to obtain prior informed consent of importers before proceeding with the trade ...more
  • Stockholm Convention [external link]
    Contains information about the treaty to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants ...more
• World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Health Topics: Pesticides [external link]
    Contains links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programs and offices that work on pesticide issues ...more

Other Environmental Hazards & Health Effects Topics

• Air Pollution & Respiratory Health
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  List of core indicators, links to individual indicators, data sources ...more
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  Ongoing collection, integration, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data on environmental hazards, exposures to those hazards, and health effects that may be related to the exposures ...more
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