NPIC – National Pesticide Information Center

NPIC operates... 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pacific time, 7 days a week, excluding holidays. Phone: 1-800-858-7378 FAX: 1-541-737-0761 Email: npic@ace.orst.edu Mail written requests to: NPIC Oregon State University 333 Weniger Corvallis, OR 97331-6502

NPIC is ...

• a cooperative effort of Oregon State University and U.S. EPA
• a toll-free telephone service that provides pesticide information to any caller in the U.S.
• a service that provides objective, science-based information about a wide variety of pesticide-related subjects, including:
  • pesticide products
  • recognition and management of pesticide poisoning
  • toxicology
  • environmental chemistry
• staffed by highly qualified and trained pesticide specialists who have the toxicology and environmental chemistry education and training needed to provide knowledgeable answers to pesticide questions
• a source of factual chemical, health, and environmental information about more than 600 pesticide active ingredients incorporated into over 50,000 different products registered for use in the U.S. since 1947