Pesticides & their Non-Target Impacts:
Sources of Data & Information
Dr. Lois Levitan, Environmental Risk Analysis Program, Cornell University
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Annotated, alphabetical listing of pesticide data and information sources for use in evaluating pesticides and developing pesticide risk indicators.
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Agricola http://www.nal.usda.gov/ USDA National Library of Agriculture |
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural and related literatures (allied disciplines include animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences). New links are continually added from AGRICOLA citations to online full-text documents. AGRICOLA was created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and its cooperators. NAL is part of the Agricultural Research Service of USDA and is one of four National Libraries in the US. |
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Agricultural Chemical Usage Reports http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/ USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) |
NASS reports on chemical application rates and acres treated in major producing states and US. Field crops (corn, soybeans, cotton, potatoes, wheat) are reported annually; selected fruit and vegetable crops, in alternate years; and post harvest chemicals and chemicals used on livestock, poultry, buildings and roadways are reported periodically. Much NASS data are available through the NASS website ( http://www.usda.gov/nass/), but agricultural chemicals data are provided via the Cornell University library system. |
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(ASTDR) Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxpro2.html Centers for Disease Control http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ |
By Congressional mandate, ATSDR has produced "toxicological profiles" for more than 250 pesticides and other hazardous substances found at National Priorities List (NPL) sites. |
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(BCERF) Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors http://envirocancer.cornell.edu Cornell University |
BCERF's Critical Evaluations provide in-depth evaluations of pesticide health effects literature for certain pesticides, particularly re: cancer risks. Factsheets are an abbreviated version for the lay audience. |
| Beneficial Insects & Other Organisms - Impacts of Pesticides |
Data on toxicity of various pesticides to beneficial organisms. Contact: Ron Whitehurst , Rincon-Vitova Insectaries 805-643-5407 (garden@compuserve.com) |
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Best Management Practices (BMPs) & Integrated Pest Management (IPM):
Resources & Recommendations http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/ Dr. Lois Levitan, Environmental Risk Analysis Program, Cornell University. ERAP-03-007 |
Factsheet containing weblinks and resources for developing and managing Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Best Management Practice (BMP) programs and plans (both agricultural and community). |
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Biopesticides http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs, Regulatory Division |
Web portal for accessing information about biopesticides, including Factsheets for biopesticide active ingredients, a listing of trade products, and EPA's review process and data requirements for these products. Biopesticides include (a) biochemical pesticides such as garlic and pheromones, (b) microbial pesticides (i.e., bacteria, fungi, and viruses used to control pests), and (c) genetically modified plants or microorganisms. |
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California EPA Department of Pesticide Regulation http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/ |
California EPA DPR maintains a comprehensive website that provides access to several databases developed in collaboration with US EPA OPP, based on the Federal agency's Pesticide Product Information System (PPIS),
http://www.epa.gov/ California Pesticide Use Reporting (PUR) database, http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/pur/purmain.htm; Chemical Ingredients Database, http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/ Pesticide Company Information Database, http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/epa/regnum.htm. |
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(CCRIS) Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/ US National Institute of Health |
Carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, tumor promotion, and tumor inhibition data provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Accessible through TOXNET |
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(CDMS) Crop Data Management Systems http://www.cdms.net For pdf versions of full pesticide labels and Material Safety Data Sheets, click on the "Labels and MSDS" option in the left-side navigation bar, and search by product name. |
CDMS, Inc. provides software services to access full text of pesticide labels, Material Safety Data Sheets ( MSDS) and other information. This website is a portal to the websites of more than 85 crop protection product manufacturers. Manufacturers' websites are likely to contain information specific to the company's formulated products. Pesticide manufacturing companies support CDMS by supplying and approving all information in the CDMS databases. |
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(CFR) Code of Federal Regulations http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/ |
Index of US Federal regulations pertaining to pesticide registration and use. "Part 180" includes Tolerances and Exemptions for specific pesticides. The Code can also be accessed from Wright and Sielaty's Pesticide.net |
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COMPUTOX toxicity database Klaus L.E. Kaiser and Mark B. McKinnon. 1994 Canadian National Water Research Institute Version 4 is available as computer file in the non-circulating reference collection of Cornell University's Mann Library (Call Number: RA1211 .K13; Format 3 3.5" floppy disks + user guide.) |
Summary: Toxicity database developed at the Canadian National Water Research Institute (1994) contains some 2300 entries for individual organic chemicals ranging from simple alcohols to complex, high molecular weight compounds. The fields of interest are: industrial hygiene, chemistry and engineering, pharmaceutical and chemical industry, environmental agencies, waste and effluent control. It requires an IBM PC and Microsoft Windows version 3.1 or later, and spreadsheet software. Requires at least 6 megabytes of free disk space to store the COMPUTOX database; a 3 1/2 in. HD 1.44 MB floppy disk drive, as the database is provided on this medium. |
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Crop Protection Handbook MeisterPro, Willoughby, Ohio http://meisterpro.com/mpn/ |
Print- and CD-based reference on pesticide products and active ingredients. Website provides ordering information only. |
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CropLife America http://www.croplifeamerica.org/ |
Trade organization representing developers, manufacturers, formulators and distributors of agricultural chemicals in the US. Its website links to webpages of member companies. |
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CropLife International http://www.croplife.org/ |
Global federation representing the plant science industry, supporting a network of nearly 100 regional and national associations and their member companies worldwide. |
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DART/ETIC Database Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology/Environmental Teratology Information Center http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/. |
"DART/ETIC is a bibliographic database on the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET). It covers teratology and other aspects of developmental and reproductive toxicology. It contains over 100,000 references to literature published since 1965. DART/ETIC is funded by the US EPA, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Center for Toxicological Research of the Food and Drug Administration, and the NLM." |
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Environmental Fate Database http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
Initiated in 2000, the Environmental Fate Database summarizes data from studies submitted by pesticide manufacturers in support of the registration of pesticide products. The database allows users to search and view the data, query the fate database, and print reports that are found in these summary reports. Contact Larry Liu at Liu.Larry@epa.gov or call 703-305-5372. |
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Environmental Fate Databases http://esc.syrres.com/ Syracuse Research Corporation |
A suite of databases of physico-chemical properties that are used as indictors of fate and transport (e.g., LogKow, degradation rates, etc ). Demo databases, including DATALOG, BIOLOG, CHEMFATE, BIODEG, are publicly accessible and can be downloaded. Full databases available by subscription. |
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EXTOXNET - The EXtension TOXicology NETwork http://ace.ace.orst.edu/ |
Factsheets and searchable database of science-based information about pesticides written for the non-expert. EXTOXNET is developed and maintained by a university-consortium. |
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(FAO) Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations http://www.fao.org/ |
Search for pesticide use statistics and other data. |
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Federal Register http://www.epa.gov/ |
The Federal Register (FR) can be accessed in several ways. The US EPA URL given here is a straightforward means for accessing pesticide-related documents. From this website the FR can be searched by date, topic, pesticide common name, etc. An alternative is to subscribe to the US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs listserv EPA-PEST and receive email messages containing full text of FR documents pertaining to pesticides. The FR can also be accessed from Pesticide.net, a website managed by the law firm of Wright & Sielaty that claims to provide faster and more comprehensive access to pesticide-related information in the FR. It is accessible only with paid subscription. |
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(FOIA) Freedom of Information Act http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
This webpage provides an explanation of the FOIA process and how to make FOIA requests for government-held information on pesticides. Cleared reviews are posted at foia/reviews.html. |
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GENE-TOX http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/ US EPA |
GENE-TOX is a US EPA database that is part of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) cluster of TOXNET databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. It contains genetic toxicology (mutagenicity) test data, resulting from expert peer review of the open scientific literature, on over 3000 chemicals, some of which are pesticides. |
| Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology. 2001 (2nd edition). Robert Krieger, ed. Academic Press. | Vol 1: Principles; Vol 2: Agents. (1st edition, 1991, edited by Wayland J. Hays, jr. and Edward R. Laws, jr.) |
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(HSDB) Hazardous Substance Data Bank http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/ sis/ |
"HSDB is a toxicology data file on the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Toxicology Data Network ( TOXNET). It focuses on the toxicology of potentially hazardous chemicals. It is enhanced with information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environmental fate, regulatory requirements, and related areas. All data are referenced and derived from a core set of books, government documents, technical reports and selected primary journal literature. HSDB is peer-reviewed by the Scientific Review Panel (SRP), a committee of experts in the major subject areas within the data bank's scope. HSDB is organized into individual chemical records, and contains over 4500 such records." |
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Inerts Disclosure Campaign http://www.pesticide.org/ Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides ( NCAP) |
Portal to much of the accessible information about pesticide inert ingredients, including (a) means for identifying inerts used with pesticide active ingredients; (b) full text of Toxic Secrets (1998) and (c) Worst kept Secrets (1998). |
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(IRIS) Integrated Risk Information System http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment |
IRIS is an electronic database with descriptive and quantitative information on possible human health effects from exposure to chemicals in the environment. The heart of the IRIS system are its files on individual chemicals which contain oral reference doses and inhalation reference concentrations (RfDs and RfCs, respectively) for chronic noncarcinogenic health effects; and hazard identification, oral slope factors, and oral and inhalation unit risks for carcinogenic effects. IRIS was initially developed for EPA staff to provide consistent information on chemical substances for use in risk assessments, decision-making and regulatory activities. The information in IRIS is intended for those without extensive training in toxicology, but with some knowledge of health sciences. IRIS can also be searched from TOXNET, the National Library of Medicine's cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. |
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(ITER) International Toxicity Estimates for Risk http://www.tera.org/iter Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA) and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) |
ITER provides side-by-side tabular comparisons of risk values from federal and international agencies, as well as independently derived values that have undergone an independent peer review: ATSDR's minimal risk levels (MRLs), EPA's risk values from the Integrated Risk Information System ( IRIS), and Health Canada's risk values for Priority Substances under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). |
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Journal of Pesticide Reform http://www.pesticide.org/ |
Journal of the Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides ( NCAP) |
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Manual of Acute Toxicity: Interpretation and Data Base for 410 Chemicals and 66 Species of Freshwater Animals.1986. US Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service |
Resource publication 160. F.L. Mayer Jr. and M.R. Ellersieck. |
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(MSDS) Material Safety Data Sheets http://www.cdms.net/ |
MSDSs give procedures for properly handling or working with a substance, including toxicity, health effects, first aid treatment, and leak handling procedures. They are intended for occupational, not consumer use. MSDSs on pesticides can be accessed on the WWW via numerous means, including the
Crop Data Management Systems website. A CD-ROM Reference database covering more than 250,000 generic and trade name chemical compounds, with fields required by OSHA, can be purchased from
http://www.env-sol.com/ |
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National Library of the Environment http://www.ncseonline.org/nle/ National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) |
The National Library of the Environment is a project of NCSE, which has been working since 1990 to improve the scientific basis for environmental decisionmaking. Supported by over 500 academic, scientific, environmental, and business organizations, and by federal, state and local government, the Council works closely with the many communities that create and use environmental knowledge to make and shape environmental decisions. NLE indexes Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, 31 of which use "pesticides" as a keyword. |
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National Library of Medicine, Library Services http://www.nlm.nih.gov/libserv.html US National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
The NLM Library Services webpage is a portal to resources available through the NLM. The NLM Gateway ( http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd) is a web-based system that lets users simultaneously search multiple NLM retrieval systems (e.g., PubMed, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus) and provides a search interface for NLM collections that do not logically belong in these retrieval systems (e.g.,meeting abstracts and pre-1966 journal citations). These other NLM systems will retain their own publicly available search interfaces. |
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National Pesticide Use Database http://www.ncfap.org/ National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy (NCFAP) |
The NCFAP National Pesticide Use Database contains 20,886 individual records quantifying uses of 235 active ingredients on 87 crops in the contiguous US. The Database is compiled from a wide variety of sources, including farmer surveys, expert opinions from knowledgeable extension service specialists, etc., so accuracy of individual estimates cannot be assessed. The Database is limited to cropland uses of pesticides and does NOT cover uses of pesticides on/in seed treatments, greenhouses, ornamentals, livestock, rodenticides, postharvest and animal repellants. The Database was initially published in 1995, based on data circa 1992, and has been updated for data circa 1997. Records can be viewed by a.i. and by crop for the entire US and within states. Data gaps are filled by extrapolating from a nearby state. Background documentation is accessible from the NCFAP website, describing how the database was compiled and documenting sources: Pesticide Use in U.S. Crop Production: 1997. Leonard P. Gianessi and Monica B. Marcelli. November 2000. 101 pages. |
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(NCAP) Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides http://www.pesticide.org/ |
NCAP publishes the
Journal of Pesticide Reform, pesticide factsheets (
http://www.pesticide.org/ |
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(NPIC) National Pesticide Information Center http://ace.orst.edu/ Oregon State University and US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
Formerly called the National Pesticide Telecommunications Network, NPIC provides information to callers (1-800-858-PEST) from the US, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands about pesticide products, regulations, recognition and management of pesticide poisoning, toxicology and environmental chemistry. Non-technical factsheets can be downloaded from the NPIC website (Factsheet index:
http://npic.orst.edu/ |
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(NTP) National Toxicology Program http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/ US Department of Health and Human Services |
The National Toxicology Program (NTP) webpages can be searched by CASRN, chemical name or toxicity/tumor site/type. NTP is an interagency program consisting of relevant toxicology activities of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH/NIEHS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CDC/ NIOSH), and the Food and Drug Administration's National Center for Toxicological Research (FDA/NCTR). |
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OSU Pesticide Properties Database http://ace.orst.edu/ P.A. Vogue, E.A. Kerle, and J.J. Jenkins. July 1994. Oregon State University Extension |
Summary of several other datasets, including the SCS/ARS/CES Pesticide Properties Database for Environmental Decision Making, Wauchope et al. (1992); Hornsby et al. (1995); and Augustijn-Beckers et al. (1994). |
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"Other" (Inert) Pesticide Ingredients http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
A complete list of all "inert" or "other ingredients" found in pesticide products registered by EPA. |
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(PANNA) Pesticide Action Network of North America http://www.panna.org/ Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Pesticide Database http://www.pesticideinfo.org/ |
The Pesticide Action Network (PAN), an advocacy group seeking alternatives to pesticides, maintains a comprehensive website of pesticide information and a suite of quantitative databases that include values for carcinogenicity, acute toxicity, reproductive and developmental toxicity, endocrine disruption, neurotoxic cholinesterase inhibitors, etc. |
| (PCI) Pest Control Impacts Database (forthcoming) | Environmental Risk Analysis Program, Cornell University. |
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Pesticide Ecotoxicity Database http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
Computerized database written in DBase III+. Contains ~15,000 summary records (32 fields per record; one record per species per study) for about 680 pesticide active ingredients. Data are drawn from empirical studies by commercial laboratories, acceptable studies conducted by EPA, USDA, and the Fish and Wildlife Service laboratories, and published data which meets the Agency's guideline testing requirements. Contact: Brian Montague at Montague.Brian@epa.gov, 703-305-6438. |
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Pesticide Industry Sales and Usage http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
A report estimating the dollar values and quantities of active ingredients used and sold in the US in the mid-1990s, as well as data on imports, exports, firms, employment, the number of certified applicators, and the number of pesticides in use. The report is based on the best available information from the public domain and proprietary sources, but data are approximate rather than precise values with known statistical properties. The most recent report—Market Estimates 1998-1999—also has the best historical data and should be used instead of reports from previous years. |
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Pesticide Labels: Where Can I Get One? How Are They Useful? Winter 2000. Journal of Pesticide Reform. http://www.pesticide.org/ |
Two-page article explains how to access and understand the text of a pesticide label. |
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Pesticide.net http://www.Pesticide.net Website maintained by the law firm Wright & Sielaty and the scientific and regulatory consultants at ChemReg Int'l |
Formerly known as PestLaw, Pesticide.net claims to be the world's most comprehensive source of continuously updated pesticide-related news and regulatory information of general interest to pesticide professionals. Accessible by subscription (~ $140/year; $40/quarter, as of Mar 2003). |
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Pesticide Properties in the Environment. 1995. A. G. Hornsby, R. D. Wauchope and A. E. Herner.Springer, NY. 227pp. |
Book with diskette. Contact Arthur Hornsby at agh@gvn.ifas.ufl.edu and R. Don Wauchope at don@tifton.cpes.peachnet.edu |
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(PMEP) Pesticide Management Education Program http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/ Cornell University |
PMEP provides extensive web-based resources, including a bibliographic database of reference materials (many from the Federal Register and NYS regulations), factsheets about pesticide active ingredients, and the annual Pesticide Use Information for New York State. The latter are an outcome of the1996 NYS Pesticide Reporting Law, which mandated a collaboration between the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Cornell University to develop a pesticide sales and use reporting database based on the mandatory submission of data from commercial pesticide applicators and businesses applying and selling pesticides. |
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(PPLS) Pesticide Product Labeling System http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
Part of the US EPA OPP "Regulating Pesticides" website, with detailed information about pesticide labels and the label-approval process. The CDMS website provides better access to text of actual labels, in pdf format. |
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(PRI) Pesticide Risk Indicators http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/ Cornell Environmental Risk Analysis Program (ERAP) |
Index page for ERAP articles, factsheets, annotated bibliographies about pesticide risk, pesticide data sources, and risk indicators. |
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PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ National Library of Medicine |
A resource provided by the National Library of Medicine ( NLM), containing over 12 million MEDLINE citations, some linked to full text articles. |
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Read the Label First http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
Graphic developed as part of the US EPA Consumer labeling initiative to explain what is contained in each section of a pesticide label. |
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Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings. J. Routt Reigart, and James R. Roberts. March 1999. (5th edition). http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances |
Covers about 1,500 pesticide products with toxicology, signs and symptoms of poisoning, and treatment covered in 19 chapters on major types of pesticides. This edition covers pesticide products that have come on the market since 1989, includes a new chapter on disinfectants. It reviews clinical experiences with pesticide poisonings, and contains detailed references. To order paper copies: EPA 735-R-98-003. 703-305-7666. |
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Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard and Guidelines to Classification 2000-2002 http://whqlibdoc.who.int/ World Health Organization, International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), Geneva, Switzerland |
Acute toxicity hazard data. |
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(RED) Reregistration Eligibility Decisions http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
Index page for publication status of complete REDs and shorter RED Factsheets, with links to completed publications. |
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Reduced Risk Pesticides:
Guidelines for Expedited Review of Conventional Pesticides under the Reduced-Risk Initiative and for Biological Pesticides http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs, Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division |
"The goal of the Reduced-Risk Pesticide Initiative and the Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention Division is to encourage the development, registration and use of lower-risk pesticide products which
would result in reduced risks to human health and the environment when compared to existing alternatives. The major incentive that EPA offers for these pesticides is expedited registration review." Pesticides designated as "reduced risk" are listed in the EPA OPP FY2003 Work Plan for the Registration of Conventional Pesticides: http://www.epa.gov/opprd001/ |
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Report on Carcinogens (10th). December 2002 http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/roc/ US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service National Toxicology Program |
Detailed toxicological information about pesticides and other substances known or that appear likely to cause cancer. Developed pursuant to Section 301(b) (4) of the Public Health Service Act as Amended by Section 262, PL 95-622 |
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Researching Health Effects of Pesticides on the Web http://www.pesticide.org/ Kay Rumsey. Updated June 2002. Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides ( NCAP). |
Describes purpose and how to use pesticide health effects databases (see ""help" section) and other sources of pesticide information, with hyperlinks to the indexing/abstracting resources. |
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Secret Hazards of Pesticides: Inert Ingredients. 1996. http://www.oag.state.ny.us/ Office of the Attorney General of New York State |
Details issues arising from the "secrecy" surrounding "inert" ingredients, this report critiques EPA progress on its 1987 "Inerts Strategy," lists health hazards of some inerts, and regulations that apply to chemicals that are also listed as inerts. (about 8 pp) |
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Springer-Verlag publications: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (formerly Residue Reviews) Dr. George W. Ware, ed. (gware@ag.arizona.edu) Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Dr. Herbert N. Nigg, ed. University of Florida Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Dr. Daniel R. Doerge, ed. |
Suite of Springer-Verlag (New York) publications that cover pesticide environmental toxicology: the Review publishes detailed review articles re: toxicological considerations and consequences of chemical contaminants in the environment; the Bulletin is used for rapid publication of short reports about introduction, presence, and effects of toxicants in the total environment; the Archives publishes original experimental or theoretical research. |
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Thomson Publications order from http://www.agbook.com/ |
Publishers of reference books about pesticides, inert ingredients, and non-chemical pest management, including Guide to Agricultural Spray Adjuvants used in the United States. 1998 (rev). Orders can be placed on the WWW, but materials are available only in print form. |
| TOXLINE http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/ National Library of Medicine | TOXLINE is a bibliographic database, covering much of the standard journal literature in toxicology. It contains more than 3 million bibliographic citations, almost all with abstracts and/or indexing terms and CAS Registry Numbers. It is accessible through TOXNET and PubMed (select "toxicology" as a subset limit). |
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TOXNET. US Toxicology Data Network http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/ National Library of Medicine |
TOXNET is the National Library of Medicine cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. The TOXNET web interface provides access to CCRIS, DART/ETIC, GENE-TOX, HSDB, IRIS, TOXLINE, and TRI. |
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(TRI) Toxic Chemical Release Inventory http://www.epa.gov/tri/ US EPA |
"TRI is an annually compiled series of databases containing information on the annual estimated releases of toxic chemicals to the environment. A large proportion of TRI chemicals are pesticides. Mandated by the Superfund legislation, TRI data covers air, water, land, and underground injection releases, as well as transfers to waste sites, as reported by industrial facilities in the US to EPA. TRI also includes data related to source reduction and recycling. TRI chemical information is available directly from EPA and also via the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Toxicology Data Network ( TOXNET). |
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US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/ |
Homepage for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP), with links to information on all pesticides registered for use in the US and to many of the topics separately referenced in this guide. Other divisions within EPA also compile and publish information that may pertain to pesticides. E.g., the Office of Air and Radiation publishes tables with concentrations of air pollutants, which may include drifting or volatile pesticide ingredients ( http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/nata/tablconc.html) and drinking water standards are within the purview of EPA's Water Science group http://www.epa.gov/waterscience. EPA's Substance Registry System ( SRS) is a coordinated central information system for the nearly 100,000 substances regulated and monitored by EPA. |
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US EPA Fact Sheets on New Active Ingredients http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
Index page for publication status of US EPP Fact Sheets for pesticide active ingredients registered since 1997. This page is expected to expand to include pesticides registered prior to 1997. |
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US EPA List of Chemicals Evaluated for Carcinogenic Potential For hardcopy see: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/carlist/ |
As of June 2003 this list of pesticides evaluated by EPA for carcinogenic potential was available only in hardcopy. |
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US EPA Online Library System (OLS) http://www.epa.gov/natlibra/ols.htm Library Network of the US EPA |
OLS consists of several related databases (e.g., the National Catalog) that can be used to locate books, reports, and audiovisual materials in the holdings of most of the 28 EPA regional libraries and laboratories. The National Catalog also lists EPA documents in the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), whether or not they are held by any libraries. |
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US EPA Pesticide Listservs & Other Information Sources http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
Overview of EPA public information sources, including listservs, hotlines and databases. Two pertinent listservs: EPA-PEST, which sends full text of Federal Register pesticide documents (subscribe at
http://www.epa.gov/ |
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US EPA Pesticide Product Information System (PPIS) http://www.epa.gov/ US EPA Office of Pesticide Programs |
Information about all pesticide products registered in the US. This webpage is the portal, or "download area, for FIFRA section 3 & 24(c) pesticide product information." Files are "presented in ascii to enable interested parties to access them using a variety of database and spreadsheet software." California EPA DPR has developed query-able databases from the files in the PPIS system. |
| US EPA Substance Registry System (SRS) http://www.epa.gov/srs/ | SRS is the central information system for nearly 100,000 substances regulated and monitored by EPA. "Substances can be searched by common identifiers such as Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number (CASRN) and name (systematic or scientific). Each substance is linked to the regulations in which it is referenced and program systems where it has been reported. " |
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(WHO) World Health Organization Research Tools http://www.who.int/research/en/ |
Access to WHO research tools, including their Library database (WHOLIS), where all WHO publications since 1948, articles from WHO-produced journals, and technical documents since 1985 are indexed and linked to full text, when available electronically. |
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(WHOPES) WHO Pesticide Evaluation Scheme http://www.who.int/ctd/whopes/ World Health Organization |
The objectives of WHOPES are to facilitate the search for alternative pesticides and application methodologies that are safe and cost-effective; and to develop and promote policies, strategies and guidelines for the use of pesticides in public health. "Set up in 1960, WHOPES is the only international programme which promotes and coordinates the testing and evaluation of new pesticides proposed for public health use. ... When a pesticide has met the criteria of the WHOPES laboratory and field evaluations, specifications are drawn up for the technical product and the formulations evaluated." Listing of pesticides for which WHOPES specifications are developed: http://www.who.int/ctd/whopes/progress.htm. |
