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There are an enormous number of resources relevant to toxicology and environmental health in the United States. The following is necessarily a highly selected list of some of the most noteworthy. Additional resources are listed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine's Toxicology Links, a product of its Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP).
There are an enormous number of resources relevant to toxicology and environmental health in the United States. The following is necessarily a highly selected list of some of the most noteworthy. Additional resources are listed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine's Toxicology Links, a product of its Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP).
Government Agencies
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
- Chemical Hazards Response Information System (CHRIS) (US Coast Guard)
- Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Chemical Assessment and Management Program (ChAMP)
- Environmental Justice
- Hazardous Waste
- Office of Pesticide Programs (Spanish) (Programas de Seguridad con los Pesticidas) Pesticides
- Toxicity and Exposure Assessment for Children's Health
- Food and Drug Administration
- Geological Survey (USGS)
- National Academy of Sciences
- Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (BEST)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- National Toxicology Program
- National Library of Medicine
- Environmental Health & Toxicology
- TOXNET Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
- Safety and Health Topics: Hazard Communication U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Information Analysis Center
- U.S. Department of Justice
- Environment and Natural Resources Division
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
State Government Agencies (selected)
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
- Environmental Council of the States (ECOS)
- California Environmental Protection Agency
- New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
- Oregon DHS Environmental Toxicology Program
- Washington State Department of Ecology - Hazardous Waste and Toxics Reduction
Non-Government Organizations
- Center for Health, Environment and Justice
- Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology (CIIT), The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences
- Children's Environmental Health Network
- Collaborative on Health and the Environment
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Environmental Working Group (EWG)
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
- Science & Environmental Health Network
- Scorecard - The Pollution Information Site
- Toxicology Education Foundation
- Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment
- U.S. Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) Women's Health and the Environment
Universities
The U.S. Society of Toxicology maintains a Resource Guide to Careers in Toxicology. This guide lists American universities that offer programs in toxicology and environmental heath.
Professional Societies
- Air and Waste Management Association
- American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACT)
- American Board of Toxicology
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- American College of Medical Toxicology
- Association of Government Toxicologist (AGT)
- American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT)
- American College of Toxicology
- American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH)
- American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASB)
- National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
- National Environmental Health Association NEHA)
- Neurobehavioral Teratology Society (NBTS)
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
- Society for Chemical Hazard Communications
- Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
- Society of Forensic Toxicologists (SOFT)
- Society of Toxicologic Pathologists (STP)
- Society of Toxicology (SOT)
- Teratology Society
- Water Environment Federation (WEF)
Poison Information/Control Centers
Miscellaneous Resources
- A Small Dose of Toxicology - An introduction to toxicology.
- Environmental Health News - An RSS News Feed.
- Environmental Research Foundation Scorecard - A pollution information site.
- IPMopedia - Integrated Pest Management.
- Toxipedia - A toxicology encyclopedia and resource center.
- Vermont Safety Information Resources on the Internet (SIRI)
Key Publications and Databases
Legislation
- US EPA Laws, Regulations, Guidance and Dockets - An expanded list of US regulations related to toxicology and environmental health.
- Atomic Energy Act (AEA)
- Clean Air Act (CAA)
- Clean Water Act (CWA)
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund)
- Endangered Species Act (ESA)
- Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA)
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA)
- Pollution Prevention Act (PPA)
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)
- Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)
- Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
About the United States of America
- USA.gov (The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal)
- InfoUSA (from the U.S. Department of State)
- U.S. Media Internet Links (Listings of and links to media newspapers, broadcast media, blogs, etc.)
- United States of America Resources in Spanish / Recursos en Español (Portals To The World)
- The World Factbook: United States (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Environmental Burden of Disease Country Profile (World Health Organization)
TOXLINE References (United States)
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Enviro-Health Links - Toxicology Web Links
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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- Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs)
- Chemical Right-to-Know Initiative
- The HPV Voluntary Challenge Chemical List
- Envirofacts Data Warehouse (links to EPA databases)
- Databases and Software
- High Production Volume (HPV) Challenge Program
- High Production Volume Information System (HPVIS)
- Laws, Regulations, Guidance and Dockets
- Publications Source
- RadTown USA
- Substance Registry System
- Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) [part of OSHA]
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) [part of NIH]
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) h.html [part of CDC]
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) [part of NIH]
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) [part of NIH]
- National Library of Medicine (NLM) [part of NIH]
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
- Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
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- CCINFO Web Information Service (search is free, may be a charge for viewing documents)
- CHEMINDEX (free)
- OSH Answers
- Chemical Safety - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- EUROTOX - Federation of European Toxicologists & European Societies of Toxicology
- Health and Safety Executive (U.K.)
- Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS)
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
- International Occupational Safety and Health Information Center (ILO-CIS)
- International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS)
- Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Chemicals
- Virtual Library of Sustainable Development and Environmental Health (BVSDE)
- Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA)
- American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACT)
- American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC)
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- American Chemistry Council (ACC) [formerly Chemical Manufacturers Association]
- American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT)
- American College of Toxicology (ACT)
- American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH)
- American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
- National Environmental Health Association (NEHA)
- Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
- Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
- Society of Forensic Toxicologists (SOFT)
- Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP)
- Society of Toxicology (SOT)
- Teratology Society
- Water Environment Federation (WEF)
- A Small Dose of Toxicology
- Altweb: Alternatives to Animal Testing
- American Chemistry Council (ACC) [formerly Chemical Manufacturers Association]
- Carcinogenic Potency Database
- Clinical Teratology Web
- Division of Occupational & Environmental Medicine Duke University School of Medicine
- EXTOXNET - EXtension TOXicology NETwork
- The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences [formerly Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology]
- Laboratory Chemical Safety Summaries - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Micromedex® Healthcare Series ($) Thomson Reuters
- National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)
- National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF)
- National Safety Council - Environmental Health & Safety (NSC)
- Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange (P2Rx™)
- Reprotox ($)
- RTKnet: The Right-to-Know Network
- RiskWorld
- RxList
- Scorecard
- SRC – Environmental Science
- TERA - Toxicology Excellence For Risk Assessment
- Toxipedia
- Vermont Safety Information Resources on the Internet (SIRI)
International Links
- Agency for International Development, U.S. - USAID (providing economic and humanitarian assistance globally)
- Center for Health and the Global Environment (Harvard Medical School)
- Department of State, U.S.
- Fogarty International Center (National Institutes of Health, U.S.)
- Global Gateway (an extensive portal to world and individual country resources in a wide array of fields of knowledge, from the Library of Congress, U.S.)
- Global Health Education Consortium
- Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS)
- International Affairs Resources (WWW Virtual Library; directory of annotated links)
- International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
- International Association of Forensic Toxicologists (TIAFT)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- International Cooperation (Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.)
- International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA)
- International Federation of Environmental Health (IFEH)
- International Labour Organization SAFEWORK (ILO)
- International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI)
- International Medical Informatics Association
- International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS)
- International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA)
- International Society of Environmental Epidemiologists (ISEE)
- International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ)
- International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology (ISRTP)
- International Travel and Health (World Health Organization)
- International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX)
- Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC)
- NIDA International Program (from the U.S. National Institute of Drug Abuse)
- Office of Global Health (CDC National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
- Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) (enabling developing countries to gain free access to environmental science literature)
- Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
- Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development Environment Directorate (OECD)
- Special Resources for Developing Countries (training, document delivery, library development, and more from the National Library of Medicine, U.S.)
- Traveler's Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.)
- United Nations Environment Programme Chemicals (UNEP)
- United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
- World Bank
- World Directory of Medical Libraries
- World Health Organization (WHO)