Chemicals Including Referral to MSDS Sources:

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) (1999 11)
This US Government Agency's site contains numerous documents and data sets (e.g. HazDat database and ToxFAQ documents) plus links to other related organizations.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - Minimal Risk Levels for Hazardous Substances (1999 11)
MRLs are listed for a number of substances. An MRL is an estimate of the daily human exposure to a hazardous substance that is likely to be without appreciable risk of adverse noncancer health effects over a specified duration of exposure.

Chemical Abstracts Service (1996 10)
Information about CAS, its products and services, etc. Find out about the STN database service, view a copy of the CAS registry structured searching manual.

Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office (US EPA) (1999 07)
EPA's CEPPO provides leadership, advocacy, and assistance to: 1) Prevent and prepare for chemical emergencies; 2) Respond to environmental crises; and 3) Inform the public about chemical hazards in their community. Prevention, preparedness and response resources include: databases, publications, chemical data, legislation, etc.

Chemical Health & Safety Data (US National Toxicology Program) (2000 05)
Chemical Health and Safety information has been collected on over 2000 chemicals studied by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the US Department of Health and Human Services. There are a number of ways to retrieve data from these NTP files. View a list of the chemicals with links to the individual chemical H & S data sheets or do full-text searches of the entire H & S database.

Chemical Manufacturers Association
The Chemical Manufacturers Association is the voice of the US Chemical Industry. CMA represents the chemical industry on public policy issues, coordinates the industry's research and testing programs, and administers the industry's environmental, health, and safety performance improvement initiative, known as Responsible Care. Learn more about their Responsible Care initiatives and the corollary research and testing programs they have launched. The main content of this site is CMA Today, providing up-to-date news about events in the chemical industry and feature articles.

Chemical Reactivity Worksheet (1998 05)
This free, downloadable program was developed by the CAMEO team at the Hazardous Materials Response and Assessment Division, ORCA/NOS/NOAA, and the Chemical Emergency Prevention and Preparedness Office of the EPA. It includes a database of reactivity information for over 4000 common hazardous materials. It also allows you to "virtually mix" chemicals to find out what dangers could arise from accidental mixing.

Chemical Registry System (US EPA) (2000 05)
EPA's new Chemical Registry System is envisioned as a way data customers (including the federal government, states, municipalities, scientists, industry, public interest groups and concerned citizens) can search for and ultimately get to all EPA chemical information, documents and regulations. It is searchable by CAS Number and chemical name, molecular formula, chemical type, definition, or other data identifiers.

Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (USA) (1998 05)
CSB was set up as an independent federal agency "to serve as a new resource in the effort to enhance industrial safety." Its mission is "to provide industries that manufacture, use or otherwise handle chemicals with information to enable identification and mitigation of operational conditions that compromise safety." The site includes information about the Board, various documents including accident statistics, etc

Consumer Labeling Initiative (2000 05)
The US EPA and members of the garden and household products industry have launched the Consumer Labeling Initiative (CLI). CLI is a voluntary, cooperative effort to foster pollution prevention, empower consumer choice, and improve understanding by presenting clear, consistent, and useful safe use, environmental, and health information on household consumer product labels. Government, industry, and other groups are working together in the CLI to make it easier for consumers to find, read, and understand label information, enabling consumers to choose the right products for their needs and values and to use and dispose of them safely and with minimal environmental impact.

Cornell Planning Design & Construction, Material Safety Data Sheets (1998 05)
This is a large MSDS database, containing approximately 325,000 MSDS from the US Dept. of Defense MSDS database, the Vermont SIRI MSDS collection, and data sheets maintained by Cornell's Environmental Health and Safety Department.

Dioxin and Related Compounds (US EPA, National Center for Environmental Assessment) (2001 04)
EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) is the national resource center for human health and ecological risk assessments.Their Dioxin and Related Compounds website includes an extensive FAQ, draft dioxin reassessment documents, the Dioxin Exposure Initiative, and EPA methods and regulations. The FAQ, prepared by the Interagency Working Group on Dioxin, provides answers to general questions about dioxin, the EPA dioxin report, food safety, and risk assessments.

Fragranced Products Information Network (1998 12)
"Information on fragrances and the chemicals used in them is not readily available. Fragrance formulas are trade secrets and ingredients do not have to be listed on the labels. There have been few medical studies done other than on the effects of fragrances on the skin. The goal of this site is to gather available information and make it accessible."

Genium Publishing (1996 02)
This commercial site provides information about Genium's MSDS collection.

HazMat Safety (2000 06)
This office is responsible for coordinating a national (US) safety program for the transportation of hazardous materials by air, rail, highway and water. Highlights include an electronic version of the Emergency Response Guidebook, regulatory info., OHM publications, etc.

In Strictest Confidence (1998 10)
This site presents a series of articles on chemical worker vinyl chloride exposures, written by Jim Morris, an investigative reporter with the Houston Chronicle