Resources
Information to help your family reduce their environmental exposures

Pesticides Matter: Resources

This resource page follows the layout of our brochure. View online or download a printable copy of the Pesticides Matter brochure.

1. Prevent Exposure at Home

  • U.S. EPA’s Citizen's Guide to Pest Control and Pesticide Safety highlights important non-chemical pest control methods and tips on using pesticides safely. May 13, 2016.
  • Natural Resources Defense Council’s How to Control Fleas Without Chemicals site provides practical advice to pet owners on non-toxic ways to control fleas. January 22, 2016.
  • Environmental Working Group’s 2016 Shoppers Guide to Pesticides gives recommendations on which foods to buy organic, including the dirty dozen and clean fifteen.
  • Columbia's Center for Children's Environmental Health provides a brochure on how integrated pest management in the home can reduce your family's exposure to pesticides. The brochure is available in English and Spanish.
  • The California Department of Public Health's Occupational Pesticide Illness Prevention Program (OPIPP) has published a pesticide hazard alert about getting rid of bed bugs safely after reports of illnesses among works who applied pesticides to treat bed bugs and among hotel and maintenance workers who entered rooms after they were treated.
  • If you live in California, find farmers' markets near you and learn which ones accept WIC and SNAP/EBT and which ones offer Market Match here.

2. Prevent Exposure at Work

For more information on workplace exposure and safety, visit the Work Matters page.

3. Protect Your Community

4. Support Healthy Policies

A Primer for Reproductive Health Physicians

This PRHE white paper summarizes recent comprehensive reviews of the evidence for adverse reproductive health outcomes that have been associated with exposure to pesticides and provides an overview of mechanisms of pesticide toxicity. The report also provides guidance to reproductive health care professionals about how to recognize, diagnose, and report pesticide illnesses and advice to patients about how to avoid pesticides whenever possible. Finally, the report offers recommendations for how reproductive health professionals can advocate for improved institutional and public policy that will help reduce pesticide exposures for the whole population.

Download a copy of the Pesticides Matter White Paper here.

Pesticides Matter is part of the Food Matters program. To learn more about pesticides on food, visit the Food Matters page.