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Thread-Topic: Environmental Health Concerns on the Farm: The Newest
              Neighborhood for Tox Town
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Date:         Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:59:39 -0500
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Subject:      Environmental Health Concerns on the Farm: The Newest
              Neighborhood for Tox Town

Environmental Health Concerns on the Farm: The Newest Neighborhood for
Tox Town
A Farm neighborhood is the newest addition to Tox Town, a Web-based
introduction to environmental health risks and toxic chemicals. Tox
Town, http://www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov, invites visitors to explore a farm
to learn about environmental health issues related to agricultural
waste, drinking water quality, air pollution, pests, and farm animals.
Farms share many of the same environmental health concerns found
anywhere in the US, but they also have unique concerns and issues, such
as exposure to hazardous agricultural chemicals and toxic gases from
animal waste.
New locations to explore on the Farm are farm buildings, feeding
operations, landfills, agricultural runoff, farm animals, farm ponds,
meat processing, tree farming and logging, off-road vehicles, and nearby
urban sprawl. Farming is one of the most hazardous occupations in the
US. Because farm families usually live where they work, all family
members are at increased risk of farm-related injury and illness.
Tox Town uses neighborhood scenes, the Farm, City, Town, and US-Mexico
Border, along with color, graphics, sounds and animation to add interest
to learning about connections between chemicals, the environment and the
public's health. Tox Town's target audience is high school, college, and
graduate students, educators, and the interested public. 
Tox Town is a project of the Specialized Information Services Division
of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
Please send your comments or questions about Tox Town to
[log in to unmask],nih.gov.




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