Household Products Database: A New NLM Information Resource for Consumers
What's under your kitchen sink, in your garage, in your bathroom, and on the shelves in your laundry room? Do these household products pose a potential health risk to you and your family?
These questions are posed on the homepage of a new site for consumers, the Household Products Database (http://hpd.nlm.nih.gov).
The National Institutes of Health unveiled this consumer's guide from the National Library of Medicine in August. It provides easy-to-understand information on the potential health effects of more than 2,000 ingredients contained in more than 4,000 common household products. For more technical information, users can launch a search for a product or ingredient in TOXNET from the Product Page in the database.
Read more about this new database in the NIH press release at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/press_releases/householdprod03.html