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KidsHealth for Parents, Children, and Teens
10140 Centurion Parkway North
Jacksonville, FL 32256
Phone:	(904) 697-4100
Fax:	(904) 697-4125
Web Address:	www.kidshealth.org

This Web site is sponsored by the Nemours Foundation. It has a wide range of information about children's health, from allergies and diseases to normal growth and development (birth to adolescence). This Web site offers separate areas for kids, teens, and parents, each providing age-appropriate information that the child or parent can understand. You can sign up to get weekly e-mails about your area of interest.

National Library of Medicine: ToxTown
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
Phone:	1-888-FIND-NLM (1-888-346-3656)
Email:	tehip@teh.nlm.nih.gov
Web Address:	http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov

The ToxTown Web site gives you information about toxic chemicals and environmental health risks that you might encounter in everyday life. It provides facts on everyday places where toxic chemicals may be found, and it gives information about how the environment can affect health. ToxTown includes common environmental hazards in towns, cities, farms, and U.S.-Mexico border communities. The site is interactive and very user-friendly. You click on simple graphics to be directed to specific information that you are interested in learning about.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
4330 East West Highway
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone:	1-800-638-2772 consumer hotline (301) 504-7923
Fax:	(301) 504-0124 and (301) 504-0025
TDD:	(301) 595-7054
Web Address:	www.cpsc.gov

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is an independent federal regulatory agency. The goal of this agency is to save lives and keep families safe by reducing the risk of injuries and deaths associated with consumer products. CPSC develops safety standards, recalls products or organizes how they will be repaired, researches possible product hazards, and informs the general public about these and other safety issues. You can call their toll-free number or e-mail them to report unsafe products.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Ariel Rios Building
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20460
Phone:	(202) 272-0167
Email:	library-hq@epa.gov
Web Address:	www.epa.gov

The EPA's mission is to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment-air, water, and land-upon which life depends.

U.S. National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH)
Phone:	1-888-422-8737
Web Address:	www.cdc.gov/nceh

The National Center for Environmental Health is sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Center works to maintain and improve the health of the American people by promoting a healthy environment and by preventing premature death and avoidable illness and disability caused by environmental and related factors.

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Last Updated: February 18, 2011

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