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Fact Sheet
TOXMAP: Environmental Health e-Maps

three images, of a map image, an industry, a TOXMAP trends map

TOXMAP (http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov) is a web site from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) that uses maps of the United States to show the amount and location of toxic chemicals released into the environment. Data is derived from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) (http://www.epa.gov/tri/), which provides information on the releases of toxic chemicals into the environment as reported annually by industrial facilities around the United States.

TOXMAP helps users create nationwide or local area maps showing where chemicals are released into the air, water, and ground. It also identifies the releasing facilities, color-codes release amounts for a single year, and provides multi-year chemical release trends, starting with 1987. Users can search the system by chemical name, chemical name fragment, and/or location (such as city, state, or zip code).

NLM has an extensive collection of toxicology and environmental health references (TOXLINE®), as well as a rich resource of data on hazardous chemical substances (HSDB®) in the TOXNET databases (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov). These resources are easily linked to/from the TOXMAP search results. The data shown in TOXMAP comes from:

TOXMAP also overlays map data such as U.S. Census population information.

TOXMAP is a project of the Specialized Information Services Division of the NLM and supports its mission of addressing toxicology and environmental health information needs.

For more information, contact:

Specialized Information Services
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
Department of Health and Human Services
6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 510, MSC 5467
Bethesda, MD 20892-5467
Toll Free: 1-888-FINDNLM
E-mail: tehip@teh.nlm.nih.gov
URL: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov

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Last updated: 28 July 2004
First published: 23 July 2004
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