As a follow-up to message below, you might also try the National Pesticide
Telecommunications Network - NPTN, for pesticide information.
This is a national service sponsored by Oregon State University and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It is available from 6:30pm to
4:30pm Pacific time at 800/858-7378 and via the World Wide Web at:
http://ace.orst.edu/info/nptn/
Enjoy!
Terry Miller
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:47:20 -0500
From: "Michele Gale-Sinex/CIAS, UW-Madison" <gale-sinex@aae.wisc.edu>
To: sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: URLs/on-line pesticide info
Howdy, all--
Donna Fezler asked about on-line resources for doing pesticide and
health research. I'm reposting an item I sent you all in December of
'97. Hope it helps. And sorry for the redundancy of those of you
who've seen it alread.
peace
misha
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Howdy, all--
A number of folks have posted queries here and to me personally
around on-line information sources on pesticides and toxic chemicals.
I'm writing to share some strategies and sources I use.
I use a two-fold strategy when searching for this information.
First, I find out all I can about the substance in question,
including synonyms, chemical structure, and mode of action from
information sources that provide. Then, I search my favorite
databases that focus on demonstrated and reported effects. By
starting out learning about the chemical itself, if I don't get a hit
on one thing, for instance, Furadan (a brand name), I can try a
generic name, carbofuran, or a chemical formula name.
FIRST STAGE OF RESEARCH
Here are some of my first stops for getting basic information on
hazardous chemicals or pesticides:
CambridgeSoft ChemFinder
http://chemfinder.camsoft.com/
This is a more industry-targeted resource...but what I find useful is
that, for each hit, a list of links comes up to about 30 on-line
sources of info. Most of those sources have chemical info (molecular
structure and synonyms, boiling point, melting point, decomposition;
solubility, sorption, and other constants, etc.). Very few are
terribly useful for the person asking: what are the effects of
exposure in high or low doses?
Craig Harris shared the ExToxNet site address.
http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/ghindex.html
To search the US EPA Internet site:
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/search.html
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (US Dept of
Health and Human Services) site:
http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080/#Search
Has links to their Hazardous Substances Database and more resources.
You can get manufacturers' Material Safety Data Sheets on-line,
mostly in .pdf (Acrobat) format, from Crop Data Management Systems,
Inc.'s, site:
http://www.cdms.net/manuf/manuf.asp
I understand that this site is only free for a short time, then will
revert to a for-pay service. This site is useful for getting MSDSs on
particular products. For example, there can be dozens of different
brand versions of a particular pesticide, each can be a little
different; this is a good place to explore that, or to target
information on a particular brand. (Or anyway what the manufacturers
share as non-proprietary.)
SECOND STAGE OF RESEARCH
A good transition to the second stage of the search, and my
perennial first stop for on-line hazardous chemical info for
substances I already know a little about, is:
NJ Department of Health Hazardous Chemical Fact Sheets
http://www.alternatives.com/libs/envchemh.htm
This is under the auspices of the NJ DOH "Right to Know" program. The
fact sheets are written in a clear, open style, and take in not only
the chemical data (boiling point, solubility, etc.) but also acute
(one shot) and chronic (long term) health information, where they have
that.
Here's George Ware's (U-AZ Tucson) "Introduction to Pesticides":
http://www.ent.agri.umn.edu/academics/classes/ipm/chapters/ware.htm
It summarizes a little about different classes of pesticides and their
modes of action.
For information on reported exposures and effects, I go to Pesticide
Action Network North America's PESTIS searchable Gopher site:
http://www.igc.apc.org/panna/information/pestis.html
Here, hits bring you PANNA updates and reports, EPA statements, and
other kinds of information that PANNA has collected about pesticide
exposures in people and wildlife.
Another resource along these lines: to search Rachel's Environment
and Health Weekly, go to:
http://www.monitor.net/rachel/
And click on the FIND button. The Excite search engine does the rest.
I have more sites, folks, but anyone can build a pretty good
information base from these.
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Michele Gale-Sinex, communications manager
Center for Integrated Ag Systems
UW-Madison College of Ag and Life Sciences
Voice: (608) 262-8018 FAX: (608) 265-3020
http://www.wisc.edu/cias/
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