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  • Environmental Defense Fund
    Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), established in 1967, consists of teams of scientists, economists, and lawyers working together to search for and promote economically and environmentally sound altern details...
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    International Food Information Council Foundation
    The International Food Information Council Foundation (IFIC) is a non-profit, educational organization designed to be a force that helps the media, educators, health professionals and scientists effec details...
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    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health
    Established in 1966, this Institute supports and conducts basic research focusing on the interaction between humans and potentially toxic or harmful agents in their environment. The main research focu details...
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    National Pesticide Information Center
    NPIC provides objective, science-based information about a wide variety of pesticide-related subjects, including: pesticide product information, information on the recognition and management of pesti details...
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    Office of Environmental Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
    The Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) was established in November 1992 with a broad mandate to serve as a focal point for ensuring that communities comprised predominately of people of color or l details...
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    Office of Pesticide Programs, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances/EPA
    The mission of EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is to protect public health and the environment from the risks posed by pesticides and to promote safer means of pest control. details...
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    Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
    The Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, plays an important role in protecting public health and the environment from potential risk from toxic chemicals for now and for generations  details...
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    Rachel Carson Council, Inc.
    The Rachel Carson Council, Inc., founded in 1965, is an independent, nonprofit scientific organization dedicated to protecting the environment against toxic and chemical threats, particularly those of details...
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    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
    The mission of the EPA is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment--air, water, and land--upon which life depends. Through the work of its many projects and programs the EPA's  details...
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    Water Quality Association
    The Water Quality Association (WQA), an association for the point-of-use water treatment industry, promotes the advancement of the industry. The WQA holds meetings to facilitate the exchange of infor details...
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