National Pesticide Information Center

About NPIC - illustration of man with megaphone shouting "NPIC!"

Click on the headphone icon to the left to download and listen to a short PestiByte PODcast describing NPIC services. Look for the PestiByte headphone icon on other pages, including Common Pesticide Questions page for more PODcast downloads!

NPIC Outreach Materials (English and Spanish)
Foreign Language Capability: NPIC can assist people in over 170 different languages through the use of an over-the-phone language service with staff trained in medical and scientific terminology. This same service is used by numerous poison control centers across the United States and is available seven days a week.
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NPIC Annual Reports
Longitudinal trends in organophosphate incidents reported to the National Pesticide Information Center, 1995–2007 David L. Stone, Daniel L. Sudakin and Jeffrey J. Jenkins, 2009.
NPIC was recently featured on Voice of America (VOA)

read or listen to VOA interview with NPIC Director

The objectives of NPIC are:

To operate a toll-free telephone service to inquirers in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, including a recording device to capture off-hour inquiries.
To provide access to NPIC and pesticide-related information via the internet and e-mail.
To serve as a source of factual, unbiased information on pesticide chemistry, toxicology, and environmental fate to all who inquire, including industry, government, medical, and agricultural personnel, in addition to general public.
To provide the medical community with diagnostic and crisis management assistance involving pesticide incidents in situations pertaining to both human and animal patients.
To acquire accurate and complete information on all inquiries considered to be pesticide incidents.
To computerize all inquiry information as well as pesticide incident data for easy retrieval.

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