Toxicology Data Bank

A Toxicology Data Bank (TDB) has been established by the National Library of Medicine of NIH. The data are set up in a computer-based on-line file available for public use. Extensive physical data are included. 

Toxicology Data Bank Toxicology Data Bank (TDB) contains chemical, pharmacological, and toxicological information. 

Use of National Library of Medicine s Toxicology Data Bank is highly recommended for the 2,600 substances for which it provides animal and human toxicology data, chemical and physical properties, formulas, laboratory methods, poisoning potential and antidote information. Data for the TDB are extracted from handbooks and textbooks and reviewed by a peer review group of subject specialists. 

Toxicology Data Bank is another on-line interactive retrieval system offered by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as part of the MEDLARS family of data bases. It provides information on 2500 chemical substances, extracted from 80 reference books and journals. 

Toxicology Data Bank TDB NLM/NIH, DHEW Public c ogenesis Bioassay Program. Categories of chemicals considered to date include cosmetics, pesticides, water pollutants, soaps and detergents, drugs, adhesives, and intentional food additives... 

E. Graedel, D. T. Hawkins, and L. D. Cld,si.toQ., Atmospheric Chemical Compounds, Academic Press, Odando, Fla., 1986, p. 263, cited in Hazardous Substances Data Bank, Acetone from Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET), National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md., Jan. 1990, NATS section in the review. 

HSDB. 1999. Methyl parathion. Hazardous Substances Data Bank. Bethesda, MD National Library of Medicine, National Toxicology Information Program. April 16, 1999. 

The precise knowledge of the chemicals, produced and stored in the factories, is a necessary condition for modeling of the accidents. However, it should be taken into account that in real conditions and especially when the accidents are accompanied with fire, new toxic compounds may be formed. Such is the case with the fire, which occurred on July 13, 1993 in the "Alen Mak" factory in the town of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. During the GC-MS analysis of the air, soil and various parts of the incident site, over 120 different chemical compounds were identified, some of which identical to the ones present on the premises before the fire, while others had obviously formed during the process of combustion. For a great number of these compounds, toxicological data was not found in the accessible information banks, such as IRIS of EPA and others [5],... 

European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals, Skin and Respiratory Sensitisers Reference Chemical Data Bank, Tech. Rep. No. 77, Brussels, 1999. 

Toxnet (Toxicology Data Network) is a computerized network of toxicologi-cally oriented data banks. Toxnet offers a sophisticated search and retrieval package that accesses the following three subfiles ... 

Hazardous Substances Data Bank. National Library of Medicine, Toxicology Information Program, 1989. 

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