ChemView: EPA's One-Stop Site for Information on Toxic Substances Control Act Chemicals

摘要

EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention designed, created and implemented an innovative conceptual approach to improve chemical safety and streamline access to information on chemicals regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) by developing a publicly-accessible, easy-to-use online database called ChemView. ChemView allows users to view information in both summary form and in detail, including links to documents provided to EPA by the regulated community and others, significantly enhancing access to chemical information in a one-stop shop venue. The information made available in ChemView will be useful for assessing exposures to chemicals, as well as the hazards chemicals pose to human health and the environment. The database can help businesses, individuals and others make more informed decisions about the chemicals they use. The initial phase focused on providing easy access to thousands of documents previously accessible only via paper dockets or EPA's files. This information includes: data submitted to EPA by industry (e.g., health and safety data); EPA-developed assessments of chemicals (e.g., hazard characterizations and safer alternative assessments); EPA regulatory actions (e.g., Significant New Use Rules); and manufacturing (including import), processing, use and release data collected by EPA (e.g., Chemical Data Reporting and Toxics Release Inventory data). Pre-defined templates were developed to capture key details from source documents, including information on chemistry, ecotoxicology, and human health endpoints. Summary results provide links to original studies or documents which contain more detailed information. ChemView also links to other Agency databases with key information on TSCA chemicals including EPA's Integrated Risk Information System, and Toxics Release Inventory database. ChemView does not contain any Confidential Business Information. While the current version of ChemView contains a substantial amount of information, when fully populated, ChemView will contain data for thousands of chemicals regulated under TSCA.