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You will find below the elements identified by the HONcode team at a precise date to justify the respect of the 8 ethical principles.
The content of this certificate has been collected and written by the Health On the Net Foundation (HON) and should not be used without previous permission granted by HON. A request for permission can be sent to:
HON.
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| 1. Information must be authoritative |
Tox Town is a project of the Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicin
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2. Presentation of the site
Mission:
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Tox Town is designed to give you information on:
everyday locations where you might find toxic chemicals
non-technical descriptions of chemicals
links to selected, authoritative chemical information on the Internet
how the environment can impact human health
Internet resources on environmental health topics
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| Audience:
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Tox Town's target audience is students above elementary-school level, educators, and the general public.
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| Purpose of the website
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If you think that you have been exposed to a toxic chemical, contact your health care professional. For poisoning emergencies or questions about possible poisons, please contact your local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222 in the United States.Tox Town cannot respond to questions about individual medical cases, provide second opinions, or make specific recommendations regarding therapy. Those issues should be addressed directly with your healthcare provider
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| 3. Confidentiality |
NLM Privacy Policy
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides this Web site as a public service. We do not collect personal information about you when you visit our Web sites unless you choose to provide that information to us.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
When you visit an NLM web site, we may store some or all of the following: the Internet address from which you access the web site, date and time, the Internet address of the web site from which you linked to our site, the name of the file or words you searched, items clicked on a page, and th...
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| 4. Information must be documented: Referenced and dated |
| Only data for one sample are displayed among those selected. |
Information on chemical and environmental concerns is from the TOXNET and MedlinePlus resources of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), as well as other authoritative sources. Selection guidelines (based on MedlinePlus) are used in evaluating links to web pages. The chemical descriptions (example - "What is arsenic?") were written for Tox Town based on TOXNET and other resources and were reviewed by NLM toxicology staff.
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All pages are dated.
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Last Updated: October 27, 2011
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| 5. Justification of claims |
This principle is not applicable for this site
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| 6. User support and adequation |
Contact Us: (email)
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The National Library of Medicine is making every effort to ensure that the information available on our Web site is accessible to all. If you use special adaptive equipment to access the Web and encounter problems when using our site, please let us know.
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| 7. Disclosure of funding sources |
As this project is entirely U.S. federal government funded, Tox Town neither allows advertising on this site nor endorses any company or product.
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| 8. Advertising policy |
...this project is entirely U.S. federal government funded,...
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