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Jeffery L Loo1, Hua Florence Chang, Colette Hochstein
1Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Abstract:
Two popular NLM resources that provide information for consumers about chemicals and their safety are the Household Products Database and Haz-Map. Search queries to PubMed via web links were generated from these databases. The query retrieves consumer health-oriented literature about adverse effects of chemicals. The retrieval was limited to a manageable set of 20 to 60 citations, achieved by successively applying increasing limits to the search until the desired number of references was reached.
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