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• Learn how pesticides can impact your health and how to prevent exposure while still controlling for pests.
• Learn about how Integrated Pest Management or IPM can create a healthier home (fact sheet), and how to start your own IPM Program. Learn more about IPM in your home by using this manual that provides a detailed overview of how to keep your home pest-free and healthy. Learn what you can do to reduce or eliminate pesticide use on your lawn. Take steps towards protecting you and your family (including your pets) by minimizing or eliminating pesticide use but keeping a healthy lawn.
• Information from the National Pesticide Information Center
• For NJ Municipalities, learn about what IPM is and why it is important and what IPM goals you can set for your town: Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Guidance for NJ Municipalities
• Click here for more information on reducing hazardous exposures in NJ

• This dashboard provides updated information on pesticide exposures in NJ displayed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Environmental Public Health Tracking Network Data Explorer. CDC obtains the data from the America's Poison Centers (APC), which collects information from the individual state poison control centers.
  
• Additional information on pesticide illnesses, including deaths, in NJ and across the US can be found using the Data Explorer and selecting the pesticide-related illness indicator.
  [Tips for finding pesticide-related data on the Data Explorer. First pick ‘Pesticide Exposures’ from the list under ‘Select’ Content Area. Next, pick the Indicator (the data in this dashboard are from ‘Reported Pesticide Exposures’ but you can also chose ‘Pesticide-related Illness.’ Next chose a ‘Measure.’ It is here you can choose all or individual pesticide types. Finally, select the ‘Geographic Type,’ such as ‘National by State’.]
• For Workers, click here for the Pesticide Illness and Injury Surveillance Program.