The following are links to various websites that may be of interest to MDCPSS members. If you have another link you would like to see added to this page, please email SOT Headquarters.
Primary Sources
International Programme on Chemical Safety Main Search Site (IPCS)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
European Chemical Agency Registered Substances Database (ECHA)
Screening Information Data Sets (source of old SIDS profiles)
OECD Existing Chemicals Database (source of new SIDS profiles)
Secondary Sources
TBD
Chemistry Data
Common Chemistry (CAS numbers)
ECHA Chemical Information Database
NCI Online SMILES Translator and Structure File Generator
Cancer Data
California Proposition 65 (CA Prop 65)
National Toxicology Program 12th Report on Carcinogens (RoC)
Environmental & Occupational
Environmental Health Criteria Monographs (EHC)
NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG)
NTP Health Assessment and Translation
OSHA Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs)
US EPA Databases
US FDA Databases
US FDA’s List of Color Additives for Foods, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Medical Devices
US FDA’s List of Direct Food Additives
US FDA’s Inactive Drug Ingredients
Food & Cosmetics
Cosmetics Ingredient Review (CIR)
The Good Scents Company Information System
In Silico Prediction Tools
CAESER. Descriptor-based models that predict REACH tox endpoints.
IHCP Predictive Toxicology. Free computational tools.
OECD QSAR Toolbox. Uses structures to categorize chemicals and predict endpoints.
Tox Match. Estimates skin irritation and sensitization based on structural similarity.
Tox Tree. Estimates toxic hazard by applying a decision tree approach.
(All free from EPA and EU)
Lit Search
National Library of Medicine’s PubMed
Pharmaceuticals & Biologics
EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute) Database
Reproductive Toxins
California Proposition 65 (CA Prop 65)
Tox Profiles
REACH Registered Substances (free tox profiles on 11,000 chemicals)
BIBRA Toxicology Profiles ($200 each)
NSF International Profiles ($25 each)
Tox Reference Books
Patty’s Toxicology (often available online from corporate and university libraries)
Sax’s Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials (often available online from corporate and university libraries)
Report of the Task Group on Reference Man (great source of chemical body burden data)
Medical Device Regulations
US FDA’s Recognized Consensus Standards
Toxicology Terms
TBD
Other Useful Sites
The EXtension TOXicology NETwork
European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology (reports on chemicals)