Chemistry: Toxicology

The National Library of Medicine used to provide here, convenient access to their family of toxicology databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas, including toxicology data, literature references, and toxic release information on particular chemicals. This useful portal was removed during the Trump administration.

A self-paced tutorial covering key principles of toxicology for users of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) chemical and toxicology databases.

Search for a substance, then click Summary. On the next screen you will see links to toxicity.

Curated physical property and toxicological data for over 900,000 chemicals. From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Also has aggregated sets of classes of substances such as endocrine disruptors and perfluoroalkylated substances

ATSDR is a federal public health agency that serves the public by providing trusted health information to prevent harmful exposures and disease related to toxic substances. This site has data on the best science, the latest research, and the most important information about toxic substances and how they affect our health.

This database from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has data and information on how to handle thousands of hazardous materials. You can also see what hazards might occur if chemicals are mixed together.

A high quality public chemistry resource for supporting improved predictive toxicology.

The High Production Volume Information System (HPVIS) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has produced these evaluations of the hazard (toxicity) data submitted on selected chemicals.

A project of CUNY and Columbia University that contains previously classified documents that emerged in toxic tort litigation and lawsuits involving lead, asbestos, silica, and PCBs, and other dangerous substances.

Peer reviewed information on chemicals commonly used throughout the world, which may also occur as contaminants in the environment and food. It consolidates information from a number of intergovernmental organizations.

Unbiased interpretation of nanomaterial exposure effects in biological systems.

A source of general industrial hygiene presenting key information and data in abbreviated or tabular form for chemicals or substance groupings (e.g. cyanides, fluorides, manganese compounds) that are found in the work environment.

Produced by the Pesticide Action Network this database has links to data on hundreds of pesticides, and formulated pesticide products, including their ecotoxicity.

This paper (https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfy152) describes how machine learning can be as accurate as animal testing in predicting toxicities.

An extensive reference source on chemical safety. Shelved in the Science/Engineering Library's reserve collection; call number T 55.3 .H3 B73 1999.