Their Characteristics and Hazards. Selected sample excerpts and pesticide clusters. Inc. Chemical Backgrounder Index - National Safety Council's Environmental Health Center Environment Writer. These backgrounders provide descriptions, chemical properties, health effects, economics, and regulations on various hazardous chemicals. Each chemical has a fact sheet and a chemical summary.
Fact sheets contain information on specific chemicals and items involving pesticides.
You can perform a search for a fact sheet on a specific topic OR you can browse through all the fact sheets. These documents are intended to be educational in nature and helpful to consumers making decisions about pesticide use. This site is the California Dept. of Pesticide Regulation. RED documents contain the results of EPA's regulatory reviews of pesticides initially registered before November 1, 1984. All files in this section are in PDF format.