What's new
Newly participating report collection:
United States Environmental Protection Agency Integrated Risk Information System (US EPA IRIS)
12 August 2009
Direct links to reports on specific substances found in the environment and their potential to cause human health effects are now available through eChemPortal.
Other useful information: Centre for PRTR Data
19 May 2009
The purpose of the Centre for PRTR Data is to share PRTR data (Pollutant Release and Transfer Register data) as widely as possible within the OECD area. The data is compiled on a national or regional level. The database does not include PRTR data of individual sites of facilities.
Newly participating database: Hazardous Substance Data Bank (HSDB) managed by the National Library of Medicine in the United States
12 May 2009
Direct links to information on the toxicology and environmental fate of potentially hazardous chemicals. It contains over 5,000 records with data on human health effects, animal toxicity studies, standards and regulations, chemical/physical properties, pharmacology, emergency medical treatment, safety and handling, environmental exposure, and more.
Newly participating database: The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Substance Registry Services (SRS)
10 April 2009
Direct links to information about regulated and monitored substances are now available through eChemPortal. The system provides a common basis for identification of chemicals in EPA regulations, data systems and from other sources, including basic core metadata, statutory or list information, and links to other sites for additional information.
Newly participating report collection:
Canada’s Existing Substances Assessment Repository (CESAR)
5 February 2009
Direct links to risk and other regulatory assessment reports on existing chemicals that are produced or imported in Canada or released into the Canadian environment are now available through eChemPortal.
Newly participating database:
Japan Existing Chemical Data Base
(JECDB)
26 September 2008
Direct links to toxicity test reports from Japan's existing chemicals safety programme are now available through eChemPortal.
Newly participating database: New Zealand's Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Chemical Classification Information Database (HSNO CCID)
8 July 2008
Direct links to chemicals classified by New Zealand's Environmental Risk Management Authority are now available through eChemPortal.
Newly participating database: Finland's Data Bank of Environmental Properties of Chemicals (EnviChem)
23 June 2008
Direct links to data related to the effects, fate and behaviour of chemicals in the environment in a database maintained by Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) are now available through eChemPortal.
Newly participating report collection: Australia's NICNAS
1 October 2007
Direct links to reports on chemicals assessed as Priority Existing Chemicals under Australia’s National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) are now available through eChemPortal.
Launch of eChemPortal
13 June 2007
eChemPortal - The Global Portal to Information on Chemical Substances is
publicly launched on 13 June.
eChemPortal is an internet gateway that
provides direct free access to information on the properties of chemicals
(physical-chemical properties, environmental fate and behaviour, ecotoxicity,
toxicity) as well as to hazard and risk assessments. It allows users to
simultaneously search multiple databases, most of which are prepared for
government chemical review programmes.
eChemPortal Web Survey
13 June 2007
To ensure the portal is enhanced to meet your needs, we
ask that you take a few minutes to complete a web survey to provide your
feedback on how best to improve the site.
XML schema for the OECD
harmonised templates
May 2007
Now downloadable from the OECD Internet site: XML schema
for the OECD harmonised templates for reporting a summary of the results of a
test on a chemical to determine its properties or effects on human health and
the environment.
The templates are aimed at developers of database
systems as they prescribe the formats by which such information can be entered
into and maintained in databases. By using these templates, governments and
industry will easily be able to electronically exchange test study summary
information.
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