Technical Notes
Tox Town® Adds New Port Neighborhood
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What do longshoremen, sunbathers, ship crews, and shrimp lovers have in common? Whether they live on the coast, work in a maritime industry or play on the beach, they can find information about the environment and how it might affect their health at Tox Town's new Port neighborhood. This imaginary port illustrates drinking water and air quality concerns along with wastewater treatment, shellfish safety, work hazards, sun and surf safety, aquaculture and many other topics. The port also highlights possible locations and descriptions of 26 hazardous chemicals.
Tox Town, //toxtown.nlm.nih.gov, uses neighborhood scenes – the Port, City, Town, Farm, and US–Mexico Border region – along with color, graphics, sounds and animation to add interest to learning about connections between chemicals, the environment and the public's health. Tox Town's target audience is high school, college and graduate students, educators (see the home page link For teachers), and the interested public. Tox Town also has a growing number of resources en español.
Tox Town® is a project of the Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine®, National Institutes of Health®. Promotional materials and Tox Town images for Web sites and publications are listed at //toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/text_version/clipart.php#clip. Please send your comments or questions on Tox Town to tehip@teh.nlm.nih.gov.
