Additional Resources

To make it easier to find online resources about poison prevention, we'll be compiling and updating links here. There is a great deal of material on the World Wide Web on this topic, and we hope that these annotated links will help get you started.

As with all online projects, this page will be under continual revision. To make this a better resource we depend on your comments, questions, suggestions, and criticisms. Please let us know how we are doing, and how we can improve.

Annotated Links

Poison Prevention Week Council

Poison Control Centers

Poison Prevention Tips & Treatment

Kids Safety

Natural Poison

Others Links

Poison Prevention Week Council

• The Council provides a focal point for its 38 member organization and coordinates activities on poison prevention. Public Law 87-319 (approved September 26, 1961) requested the President to annually designate the third week in March as National Poison Prevention Week. The observance, sponsored by the Poison Prevention Week Council, was designed to alert the American people to the problem of accidental poisoning. For the past 34 years National Poison Prevention Week has focused on prevention poisonings among children under five years of age.
  
  
• General Bill H9057: Poison Prevention Week

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Poison Control Centers

• American Association of Poison Control Centers

• AAPCC Directory of Centers
  Find the location of the Poison Control Center in your area if you live in the United States or elsewhere in the world. Write the telephone number down and keep it handy.

• AAPCC EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
  

• Healthtouch
  Includes local pharmacy search and health resource directory
  
  
• Poison Control Centre database
  This database contains mainly natural toxins and poisons such as plant toxins, snake toxins, and other animal toxins. Directories of antivenoms, toxicologist, and poison control centers around the world are present.
  
  
• University of Arizona Poison & Drug Information Center
  
  
• University of California at Davis Poison Control Center
  
  
• University of Maryland Poison Center
  
  
• UC San Diego Regional Poison Center

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Poison Prevention Tips and Treatment

• Home & Environmental Safety
  Provided by Healthtouch
  
  
• Poison Center Answer Book
  Provided by University of California at Davis Poison Control Center
  
  
• Poison Prevention
  
  
• Poison Prevention & Safety
  Provided by Healthtouch
  
  
• Poison Prevention Publications
  Provided by "The Consumer Products Safety Commission"
  
  
• Poisoning Prevention Tips
  Provided by University of California at Davis Poison Control Center
  
  
• Poisonings: A Guide to Prevention and Treatment
  Provided by University of Maryland Poison Control Center
  
  
• Tox-Trivia
  University of Arizona Poison & Drug Information Center, eight questions related to poison and poisoning
  
  
• University of California at Davis Checklist for Poison Safety
  Provided by University of California at Davis Poison Control Center
  
  
• Your Home
  Provided by University of Arizona Poison & Drug Information Center

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Kids Safety

• Health Infant & Child Safety
  Provided by Healthtouch
  
  
• Kidsource On-line Healthcare
  This is designed for parents to take care of their children. It includes healthcare articles and KidSource on-line forums. In safety section, you can find poison lookout checklist for home safety.
  
  
• National SAFE KIDS Campaign Home Page
  The National SAFE KIDS Campaign is the first nationwide movement to prevent unintentional childhood injury. At the heart of the Campaign are more than 170 State and Local SAFE KIDS Coalitions in 47 states and the District of Columbia which implement comprehensive, multi-faceted, community-based strategies focusing on child occupant protection, bicycle safety, residential fire detection, and scald burn prevention.
  
  
• New Jersey Poison Information and Education system
  Site from the state of New Jersey. They make a good point about * babysitters* and poison prevention.

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Natural Poison

• Information on Bites and Stings
  Provided by University of Maryland Poison Center
  
  
• Information on Poisonous Plants
  Provided by University of Maryland Poison Center
  

• UAPlants
  Provided by University of Arizona Poison & Drug Information Center
  

• UAVenomous Critters
  University of Arizona Poison & Drug Information Centerprovides information on poison secreting Arthropods and Reptiles.

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 Others

• Hazardous Materials
  Provided by University of Arizona Poison & Drug Information Center

• Lead Poisoning
  Provided by University of California at Davis Poison Control Center

• Poisoning and Pets
  Provided by University of Arizona Poison & Drug Information Center

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