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Environmental and health information
on chemicals is widely available in the internet. However,
a close attention should be paid on the source of information.
For this purpose the following list of chemical information
sources is collected. Some of the documents require either
a word processor or Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded
at http://www.adobe.com/
EMISSION GUIDELINES AND LIMIT VALUES OF HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS
CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES AND TOOLS IN THE INTERNET
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EMISSION GUIDELINES AND LIMIT VALUES OF HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS
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The Pollution Prevention and
Abatement Handbook of World Bank sets maximum
air emissions and discharge requirements in World
Bank projects.
The principles are stated in chapter: Industrial
Pollution Management. Maximum Air Emissions and
Effluent Discharge Requirements in Guidelines
are summarised in tables in different industrial
sectors. A part of the chemicals are hazardous.
The manual also includes General
Environmental Guidelines which presents
emission levels normally acceptable to the World
Bank. Moreover the manual has industry sector
guidelines. http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/essd.nsf/Docs/TOC?OpenDocument
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European Union emission
guidelines and limit values can be found in the
Union's legislation
Monitoring of atmospheric pollution:
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/reg/en_register_15102030.html
International co-operation:
http://www.vyh.fi/eng/intcoop/agreem/agrind.htm
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/reg/en_register_151040.html
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OECD has emission limits
in Climate Change Documents: http://www.oecd.org/env/cc/freedocs.htm
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) has a chemicals programme:
http://www.oecd.org/ehs/chem2.htm
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Environment Australia Online
provides information on recent development in
international chemicals section:
http://www.environment.gov.au/epg/chemicals/ic.html
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Prior
informed consent" is a procedure that helps
participating countries learn more about the characteristics
of potentially hazardous chemicals that may be
shipped to them, initiates a decision making process
on the future import of these chemicals by the
countries themselves and facilitates the dissemination
of this decision to other countries. This process
gives importing countries the power to make an
informed decision on which chemicals they want
to receive and to exclude those they cannot manage
safely. Full details on the Convention can be
found at the joint FAO/UNEP website:
http://irptc.unep.ch/pic
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The Governing Council of the
United Nations Environment Program, UNEP
has agreed to develop a global, legally binding
treaty to control the use of persistent organic
pollutants (POPs). POPs are hazardous and environmentally
persistent substances which can be transported
between countries by the earth's oceans and atmosphere.
It will also aim to explore
feasible and practical methods to reduce the emission
of POPs occurring as unwanted by-products (mainly
dioxins and furans), particularly through cleaner
technologies, process modifications and other
means.
http://irptc.unep.ch/pops
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Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals:
Information Paper was prepared in April 1998 in
response to public enquiries to relevant Commonwealth
Government agencies about their current views on
health and environmental aspects of the issue of
endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). It addresses
a series of common questions.
EDC Links:
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Intergovernmental Forum for
Chemical Safety (IFCS). The IFCS was established
as new mechanism for co-operation among governments
for the promotion of chemical risk management
and the environmentally sound management of chemicals.
http://www.who.int/ifcs
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UNEP Chemicals & WHO GEENET:
UNEP Chemicals is the centre for all chemicals-related
activities of the United Nations Environment Programme.
http://irptc.unep.ch
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Inter-Organization Programme
for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC):
The IOMC was established in 1995 to serve as a
mechanism for co- ordinating efforts of intergovernmental
organisations in the assessment and management
of chemicals.
http://www.who.int/iomc
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International Programme on
Chemical Safety (IPCS): The International
Programme on Chemical Safety or IPCS established
in 1980, is a joint programme of three Co-operating
Organisations, ILO, UNEP and WHO, implementing
activities related to chemical safety. IPCS is
an inter-sectoral coordinated and scientifically
based programme. WHO is the Executing Agency of
the IPCS .
http://www.who.int/pcs/index.htm
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CHEMICAL INFORMATION SOURCES AND TOOLS IN THE INTERNET
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH
EFFECTS DATABANKS
TOXNET Toxicology Data
Network: is a cluster of databases
on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related
areas. Contains several interesting US databanks
and a comprehensive literature search:
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Hazardous Substances Data Bank
Broad scope in human and animal toxicity,
safety and handling, environmental
fate, and more. Scientifically peer-reviewed.
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Integrated Risk Information System
(IRIS)
Data from the US Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) in support of human health
risk assessment, focusing on hazard
identification and dose-response assessment.
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Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information
System - carcinogenicity, mutagenicity,
tumor promotion, and tumor inhibition
data provided by the US National Cancer
Institute (NCI).
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GENE-TOX
Peer-reviewed mutagenicity test data
from the US EPA
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
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CHEMID-PLUS
Chemical information database under TOXNET.
A database of 350,000 chemical records,
including over 100,000 with structures.
Locator links allow immediate searching
of other databases for information about
a given chemical.
http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/
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SUPERLIST
A set of data in the NLM ChemID and ChemIDplus
files which carries data from selected regulatory
or scientific Lists on which the specific
substance appears. This data is carried
in the Name of Substance, Classification
Code, Note, and the SuperList Locator Field.
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Chem/ChemSuperAbout.html
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CHEMFINDER
Basic tool for data searching on chemicals.
Several search options and connected to
dozens of data banks.
http://www.chemfinder.com/
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ECDIN - Environmental
Chemicals Data and Information Network
The Environmental Chemicals Data and Information
Network (ECDIN) is factual databank (120
000 chemicals) created under the Environmental
Research Programme of the European Commission,
Joint Research Centre at the Ispra site.
The main information that ECDIN/PHATOX can
deliver to the users are related on:
http://ecdin.etomep.net/
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ENVIROFACTS WAREHOUSE
Environmental information from EPA databases
on Air, Chemicals, Facility Information,
Grants/Funding, Hazardous Waste, Superfund,
Toxic Releases, and Water Permits, Drinking
Water, Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence,
and Drinking Water Microbial and Disinfection
By product Information (Information Collection
Rule [ICR])
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/qmr.html
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Environmental Defence
Funds Chemical Scorecard provides
detailed informat0ion on more than 6,800
chemicals, including all the chemicals used
in large amounts in the United States or
Canada and all the chemicals regulated under
major US environmental laws.
http://www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/
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Chemicals Evaluation
and Research Institute (CERI). Factual
database containing data on biological degradation
and bioaccumulation of chemicals. Contains
measured and QSAR data.
http://www.cerij.or.jp/ceri_en/index_e.shtml
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Environmental Estrogens
and Other Hormones (EEOH) related
site. Actual up-to-date information on chemicals
acting as endocrine disrupters. http://www.tmc.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/newsviews/whatsnew/default.html
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Material Safety Data
Sheets (MSDS) US University of Akron
search for Material and safety data sheet.
http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/erd/index.html
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German MSDS
http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/safety/chemsafety.html
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Comprehensive solvent
database partially provided by the
US EPA. http://solvdb.ncms.org/
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Health and Safety information
has been collected on over 2000 chemicals
studied by the US National Toxicology Program.
http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/
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OECD's Work on Environment,
Health and Safety.
http://www.oecd.org/ehs/
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