Dept of Health Library: Department of Health Library OLD: Chemical Hazards

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WHO - International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) - Environmental Health Criteria
Links to the fulltext 1976-2014
WHO - Health and Safety Guides (HSG)
Health and Safety Guides (HSG) provide concise information in non-technical language, for decision-makers on risks from exposure to chemicals, together with practical advice on medical and administrative issues.
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives
The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) is an international scientific expert committee that is administered jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). It has been meeting since 1956, initially to evaluate the safety of food additives. Its work now also includes the evaluation of contaminants, naturally occurring toxicants and residues of veterinary drugs in food.

National Dioxins Program - Department of the Environment and Energy (Australia)
The Australian Government announced the four year National Dioxins Program in 2001 to reduce dioxins and dioxin-like substances in the environment. A priority for the program was to improve our knowledge about dioxin levels in Australia.

Human and ecological risk assessment: an international journal 1997 onwards A resource for professionals researching and assessing environmental hazards to both humans and ecological systems.
Crtiical reviews in toxicology 2017 onwards Provides up-to-date, objective analyses of topics related to the mechanisms of action, responses, and assessment of health risks due to toxicant exposure.

TOXINZ This link opens in a new window
Poisons information database containing current, concise and reliable recommendations on the management of poisoning from over 190,000 listed chemical products, pharmaceuticals, plants and hazardous creatures. This resource is continually reviewed and rapidly expanding to accommodate more information.

EPA (US) - Chemistry Dashboard
The Chemistry Dashboard is a part of a suite of databases and web applications developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency's Chemical Safety for Sustainability Research Program.
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These databases and apps support EPA's computational toxicology research efforts to develop innovative methods to change how chemicals are currently evaluated for potential health risks.

As part of a broader NLM reorganization, most of NLM's toxicology information services have been integrated into other NLM products and services.

ChemIDplus in PubChem
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HSDB in PubChem
HSDB content migrated to PubChem
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TOXLINE in PubMed
TOXLINE PubMed content migrated to PubMed as the “Toxicology subset”
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