introduction
Most people spend over 90% of their time indoors. Your home is a very
important environment where you and your family may spend much of
your time. This brochure offers ways to make your home a healthy place.
It includes information on indoor and outdoor air quality, pesticides,
toxic household products, mold, tobacco smoke, radon, drinking
water contaminants and making your home "green". It has a little
information about a lot of different topics and links to web sites
to learn more. You can try the web links throughout the brochure
or go to the federal agency web sites listed below to learn more
about a particular topic that interests you.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control at www.cdc.gov
U.S. Department of Agriculture at www.usda.gov
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at www.hhs.gov
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development at www.hud.gov
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at www.epa.gov
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