Research Guide: Human Ecology
General Sources
- Government Sites Related to Nutrition
- A very thorough list of agencies and programs including Food & Drug Administration, Dept. of Agriculture, and the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
- Home Economics Archive
- Core collection of over 800 full text online books and 7 journals focusing on home economics in the U.S. before 1950. From Cornell University.
- U.S. Census Bureau Index
- Locate tables, statistics, and reports by subject such as Child Care Data, Families / Households and Families Data, and Foodservices / Accommodation and Foodservices.
- U.S. General Services Administration
- GSA offers a variety of products and services to federal agencies, federal workers, State and Local governments, and citizens. It covers child care and consumer problems, among other topics.
- U.S. Small Business Administration
- Advice, brochures, tools, and web links for small business owners from the federal government.
Consumer Sources
- Consumer Information Center
- One stop shopping center for federal consumer publications.
- Federal Trade Commission
- The (FTC) works to ensure that the nation's markets are vigorous, efficient and free of restrictions that harm consumers.
- FirstGov for Consumers
- Large directory of web sites arranged under the categories food, product safety, health, home & community, money, transportation, children, and more.
- Google Consumer Information Directory
- Subject directory to web sites relating to all aspects of consumer information.
