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NLM® Resource Update: TOXMAP® Now Includes Updated Superfund, Mortality Data, and New Classroom Exercises

NLM® Resource Update: TOXMAP® Now Includes Updated Superfund, Mortality Data, and New Classroom Exercises. NLM Tech Bull. 2010 Jul-Aug;(375):e12

August 09, 2010 [posted]

[Editor's Note: This is a reprint of an announcement published on NLM-Tox-Enviro-Health-L, an e-mail announcement list available from the NLM Division of Specialized Information Services. To subscribe to this list, please see the NLM-TOX-ENVIRO-HEALTH-L Join, Leave, or Change Options page.]

The National Library of Medicine® TOXMAP now includes updated EPA Superfund National Priority List (NPL) data and updated NCI mortality data.

In addition, TOXMAP now provides links to AirNow for air quality data, to NCEA (National Center for Environmental Assessment) HERO (Health & Environmental Research Online) Database for risk assessments, and additional TOXMAP classroom exercises.

TOXMAP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Toxics Release Inventory, and Superfund Program.