Health InfoNet for Kids

At the U.S. Food and Drug Administration they figure you’re never too young to start learning about health and food safety. Take, for example, the FDA’s new Kids’ Home Page (www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/kids), a site on the world wide web designed to help children aged nine through 12 learn more about food handling and public health, and about the agency that oversees it.

Among the instructional tools used by the FDA are a Food Safety Quiz (“Eating raw cookie dough made with raw eggs is OK: T/F?”), a Medicine Cabinet Word Find puzzle (“Toothpaste,” “Iron” and “Antihistamines,” etc.), a Pet Care Tips section and an Interactive Human Skeleton complete with pacemaker and artificial limb joints. In addition, the site contains a Teen Scene link for adolescents with health concerns, and Parent’s Corner, which links to FDA consumer articles on child/infant health and nutrition.

This is definitely one to add to yours kids’ list of Favorites, not to mention your own.