Today there are more than 80,000 chemicals on the market, many with known or suspected health effects. Learn more about how to limit exposures in your every day life with the resources below.
Brochure for Pregnant Women in Puerto Rico
Feel free to download and/or print our 12 page brochure giving tips for avoiding toxicants during pregnancy.
PROTECT Yourself: Keeping Harmful Chemicals Out of Your Life
Visit our online guide to learn about how adjusting your eating, living, and purchasing habits can help reduce exposures to harmful chemicals.
You may also access our printable brochures:
PROTECT Yourself…
- When Choosing Clothes for You and Your Family
- In Your Garden
- In Personal Care Products
- In Your Home
- In Childcare
- In Your Drinks and Food
Reproductive Health and the Environment Bulletin
Click here to view PROTECT’s informative guide about the most recent research on environmental exposures and reproductive health.
The Silent Spring Institute’s DetoxMe Smartphone App
DetoxMe is a free smartphone app that provides tips on avoiding exposures and tracks your progress toward reducing harmful chemicals in your daily life. DetoxMe is available on the App Store and on Google Play.
Additional Smartphone Apps
EWG’s Healthy Living App: Ratings for more than 120,000 food and personal care products, now at your finger tips via this product bar-code scanning tool.
ThinkDirty App: Learn about potentially toxic ingredients in your cosmetics and personal care products by scanning product bar-codes with this app.
Exposure Prevention Information for Teachers
The Let’s Talk Prevention: Actions You Can Take environmental education program is designed as supplemental stand-alone classroom modules to enhance your current science, health, and environmental studies curriculums by providing real world application of scientific content knowledge.
Information on the Zika Virus
Below, you will find videos released by The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council (DPAC) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Also, visit these continually updated pages for the latest information and resources on Zika Virus.
Useful links:
An Emerging Concern: The Health and Environmental Implications of Chemical Persistence
The Environmental Working Group
Green Science Policy Institute
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment
NIEHS Archived Internet Seminars & Podcasts
Making a Difference: Clean Water Activism and Career Opportunities