1. From the Basic Product and Chemical Search page, click the Chemical button.

2. Type into the search box the name of the pesticide active ingredient(s) on the form your childÕs school sends home or on the pesticide product label.

3. Click the Search button. A short list of chemicals appears, among them the one you entered. If your search does not yield any results, see the Troubleshooting Your Search section of this fact sheet.

4. Click the More button for the chemical you are interested in to learn more about it. This takes you to the Chemical Information page, which provides both summary and detailed toxicity information for the chemical, plus links to other Web sites with helpful resources.

1. From the Basic Product and Chemical Search page, click the Product button.

2. Type into the search box the name of the pesticide product on the form your childÕs school sends home or the pesticide product label in large letters (e.g., Roundupª or Raidª).

3. Click the Search button. A list of products appears that begins with the name you entered. If your search does not yield any results, see the Troubleshooting Your Search section of this fact sheet.

4. Select the product you are interested in carefully, because many products have very similar names. To ensure that you investigate the correct product, compare U.S. EPA product registration numbers in the list with the one on the schoolÕs form or the product label. Your search may produce more than one page of results. View subsequent results pages by clicking the number of the next page of results.

5. Once you locate the product of interest, click the More button to go to the Product Information page for summary toxicity data for each active ingredient in the product.

6. To learn still further about each active ingredient, click its name to proceed to the Chemical Information page, with more detailed toxicity information.

¥ Terms that are defined and explained are underlined. Clicking on any underlined term will link you to its definition.

¥ The sidebar menu on the PAN Pesticide Database home page contains a site table of contents. Click the Definitions/References link for an overview page that describes the available information and provides links to the pages on which it is found. The direct link is:
http://www.pesticideinfo.org/documentation3/ref_overview.html.

¥ The navigation bar (blue buttons) at the top of the Search page or any of the data pages displays a button labeled Definitions/About the Data that links to the overview page that describes all documentation.

¥ Check the spelling of the pesticide name. Perhaps the notice your school provided contained mistyped information.

¥ If you know what letter or letters the pesticide name starts with, type only the beginning part of the name into the search box. For example, you might enter ÒmalÓ to locate malathion. The shorter the entry, and the more general the search, the longer your list of results.

¥ Be sure to search for only one chemical or product at a time. You cannot type in Òraid, dursbanÓ in hopes of finding both simultaneously.

¥ Use the Browse mode to find the product or chemical. Clicking on the letter or number the product or chemical begins with yields an alphabetical list of all products or chemicals that start with that letter or number. The list may be long and require scrolling through several pages to find the pesticide of interest.