CHEMICAL HAZARD EVALUATION - THE USE OF FACTUAL HEALTH AND SAFETY DATA-BANKS

Citation
M. Evangelisti et al., CHEMICAL HAZARD EVALUATION - THE USE OF FACTUAL HEALTH AND SAFETY DATA-BANKS, Science of the total environment, 153(3), 1994, pp. 211-217
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Environmental Sciences
ISSN journal
00489697
Volume
153
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
211 - 217
Database
ISI
SICI code
0048-9697(1994)153:3<211:CHE-TU>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The usefulness of factual health and safety databanks is discussed in this paper. Four databanks have been selected for this study: HSDB (Ha zardous Substances Data Bank), ECDIN (Environmental Chemicals Data Inf ormation Network), RTECS (Registry of the Toxic Effects of Chemical Su bstances) and CCRIS (Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information). Th e quality of the information available in the databanks considered was examined for five different chemical compounds and the completeness o f the information available was carried out by an analysis of carcinog enic and mutagenic data.