Fw: EPA Announces New Hispanic environmental health page on Pesticides

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Colleagues,

The message below is from Marinez regarding an EPA Hispanic environmental health page available via web.

Alice Larson

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Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 3:52 PM

Subject: FW: EPA Announces New Hispanic environmental health page on Pesticides

This may be of interest. EPA announced a new Hispanic environmentalhealth page on pesticides in its Spanish-language portal. The new pagediscusses health and environmental issues associated with the proper useof pesticides and informational resources in Spanish and English. ThisHispanic Web site is part of the agency's continuing expansion ofoutreach to the Hispanic community in the United States and Puerto Rico.The Hispanic environmental health page, "El medio ambiente y su salud,"focuses on the agency's overall efforts to educate Hispanics,researchers, and health care providers on how environmental healthissues affect the different Hispanic communities. The page is updatedregularly with new information on developments and policy. Since itslaunch last year, this popular page has covered issues such as asthma,mold and carbon monoxide. This segment of EPA's Spanish-language portalwill feature other environmental issues such as green technology anddrinking water in the near future. New edition on pesticides (http://www.epa.gov/espanol/pesticidas.htm)also information on "El medio ambiente y su salud"(http://www.epa.gov/espanol/saludhispana/index.htm)