Environmental fate database

Environmental Chemicals Data and Information Network (ECDIN) Environmental Fate (ENVIROFATE) Environmental Fate Databases... 

Environmental Fate Database (EFDB) http / /esc.syrres.com/ ESC/efdb.htm... 

Software and Online Sources of Chemical Properties. Larson et al.28 and Andren et al.16 provide a thorough listing of electronic databases and online search engines for environmental fate properties. Very useful online databases for these parameters include Syracuse Research Corporation s (SRC s) (Syracuse, NY) Environmental Fate Database (EFDB) and the Hazardous Substances DataBank available at http //toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/. The SRC Web site... 

CHEMFATE The Environmental Fate Database-A Computerized Database by Technical Database Services Incorporated, New York, New York. 

EPA (1985) Environmental Fate Database. A Computerized Database sponsored by U.S. EPA s The Office of Toxic Substances. 

Syracuse Research Corporation (1988) Environmental Fate Database, available on the World Wide Web at http //esc. syrres.com/scripts/CHFcgi.exe (accessed on 4/11/03). 

The CESARS database contains comprehensive environmental and health information on chemicals. It provides detailed descriptions of chemical toxicity to humans, mammals, aquatic and plant life, as well as data on physical chemical properties, and environmental fate and persistence. Each record consists of chemical identification information and provides descriptive data on up to 23 topic areas, ranging from chemical properties to toxicity to environmental transport and fate. Records are in English. Available online through CCINFOline from the Canadian Centre For Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) and Chemical Information System (CIS) on CD-ROM through CCIN-FOdisc. 

This database includes information on the environmental fate of pesticide actives. 

EFDB. 2000. Americium. Environmental Fate Exposure Database. Syracuse Research Corporation. 

Despite the existence of several databases for certain substances, it is not possible to find physicochemical and/or toxicological parameters to assess the risk for all substances. The lack of data is one of the main problems in risk assessment. This is especially true for emerging pollutants. One solution to solve this problem is the use of QSAR or estimation tools. QSAR models correlate the structure of the substance with their activities (physicochemical properties, environmental fate, and/or toxicological properties). 

The Federal Research in Progress (FEDRIP 2002) database provides additional information obtainable from a few ongoing studies that may fill in some of the data needs identified in Section 6.8.1. No ongoing studies on the environmental fate of chlorine dioxide or chlorite (ions or salts) are currently in progress (FEDRIP 2002). 

LC/MS especially has been incorporated into building corporate-wide computer databases for tracking compounds throughout the process of candidate evaluation, approval, regulation, manufacturing, and environmental fate. This has lead to use of standardized LC/MS methods that are not optimized for each individual candidate, but allow computerized searching and comparison of compounds and structures. 

Remedial investigations and feasibility studies conducted at the 154 NPL sites known to be contaminated with barium will add to the available database on exposure levels in environmental media, exposure levels in humans, and exposure registries and will increase the current knowledge regarding the transport and transformation of barium in the environment. No other long-term research studies pertaining to the environmental fate of barium or to occupational or general population exposure to barium were identified. 

US Environmental Protection Agency [USEPA], Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Fate and Effects Division. 2001. Environmental effects database (EEDB). ECO-TOX Database System, http //www.epa.gov/ecotox/ (accessed July 23, 2005). 

The EPA uses QSARs to predict a large number of ecological effects, as well as for environmental fate within the PMN process. The EPA s website (www.epa.gov) provides a valuable source of further information on all these predictive methods, as well as a database and aquatic toxicity values and detailed information on how the models have been validated. Many of the predictive models have been brought together into the EPISUITE software (see Table 19.2 for a listing of the models available). This includes the OPPT s models used for the prediction of physical and chemical properties for new chemical substances. The EPISUITE software is downloadable free of charge (www.epa.gov/oppt/exposure/docs/episuitedl.htm). This provides not only an excellent resource for the development of QSARs, but also a transparent mechanism for the assessment of PMNs. 

This database contains toxicological data on over 850 chemicals of particular interest to the United States Great Lakes basin. Each record provides descriptive data on up to 23 topic areas, including physical and chemical properties, toxicity, and environmental fate. Produced by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. Fully evaluated and referenced data. (CCINFOline contained in CCINFOdisc CHEMpendium series from CCOHS) Chemical Safety Newsbase (CSNB) ... 

This huge data file covers over 4500 potentially hazardous chemical substances. It contains information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency-handling procedures, environmental fate, regulatory requirements, and related areas. All data are referenced and derived from a core set of books, government documents, technical reports and selected primary journal literature. HSDB is peer-reviewed by the Scientific Review Panel (SRP), a committee of experts in the major subject areas within the data bank s scope. (Data-Star, DIMDI, STN Easy, TOXNET available as part of TOMES PLUS by Micromedex). Household Products Database ... 

One of the first steps in the risk assessment process involves the collection of available information on the physicochemical properties, ecological effects, environmental fate, and health effects for a given chemical. In a nontesting strategy, data are also essential to make predictions by means of the read-across approach. Data can be retrieved from books, Internet-based resources (free and commercial resources), or commercial databases. This is a vast and rapidly developing field, so the reader is referred elsewhere for discussions of data sources [28-31],... 

Syracuse ResearchCorporation(SRC)(http //www.syrres. com/esc/physdemo.htm) offers commercial online searches of a number of physical property databases, including online logP measurements (octanol-water partition coefficient), environmental fate for over 25,000 chemicals. 

The environmental fate and pathways and the ecotoxicity parameters implemented in the IUCLID database (Allanou et al. 1999) will be looked upon. These are ... 

This database contains unpublished test data which is submitted to EPA by industries. It includes tests pertaining to a chemical s health effects, environmental effects, and environmental fate. 

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