Organization

Projects Included           

Advisory Committee on Existing Chemicals (BUA) associated with the German Chemical Society

·        Health and environmental  hazard evaluation

·        Testing for health effects

American Conference of Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH)

·        Biological Exposure Indices (BEI)

·        Threshold Limit Value (TLV)

American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)

·        Workplace Environmental Exposure Limit (WEEL)

·        Emergency Response Planning Guideline (ERPG)

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

·        Minimal Risk Level (MRL)

·        Toxicological Profile (TP)

California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)

·        Public Health Goals (PHGs)

·        Proposition 65 Chemicals

·        Toxic Air Release

Department of the Environment (UK): Environmental Hazard Assessment

·        Comprehensive health and/or environmental hazard evaluation which uses a combination of comprehensive exposure and effects data to reach conclusions about a specific chemical

Environment Canada

·        Canadian Soil Quality Guidelines

·        Canadian Water Quality Guidelines

European Union (EU)/

European Chemicals Bureau (ECB)

·        Online European Risk Assessment Tracking System (ORATS)

·        Occupational Exposure Limit (OEL)

Food Standards Agency (UK)

·        Comprehensive health and/or environmental hazard evaluation which uses a combination of comprehensive exposure and effects data to reach conclusions about a specific chemical.

·        Initial health and/or environmental hazard evaluation which uses a combination of data regarding toxic effects and limited exposure to reach an initial hazard assessment about a specific chemical.

Hawaii Department of Health

Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response

Health Canada

·        PSL1 Assessment Reports (Priority Substances List)

·        Risk Reduction Activities

·        Domestic Substance List (DSL)

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

·        Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals

Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Chemical Industry (BG Chemie)

·        Health and environmental hazard evaluation

International Programme for Chemical Safety (IPCS)

·        Concise International Chamical Assessment Documents (CICADS): Health and environmental hazard evaluation

Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (Japan)

·        Short-term testing for health effects

·        Long-term testing for health effects

·        Report of occupational health research

National Academy of Sciences

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National Chemicals Inspectorate (Sweden)

·        Comprehensive health and/or environmental hazard evaluation which uses a combination of comprehensive exposure and effects data to reach conclusions about a specific chemical

·        Risk reduction activities

National Environmental Research Institute (Denmark)

·        Monitoring of environmental levels of chemicals or effects, including development.

National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (Australia)

·        Comprehensive health and/or environmental hazard evaluation which uses a combination of comprehensive exposure and effects data to reach conclusions about a specific chemical

·        Initial health and/or environmental hazard evaluation which uses a combination of data regarding toxic effects and limited exposure to reach an initial hazard assessment about a specific chemical.

National Resources Canada

·        Geochemical Studies of Sources and Fates

·        Monitoring of environmental levels of chemicals or effects, including development.

National Toxicology Program (NTP)

·        Test Agent Studies (TAS)

·       Occupational Exposure Levels of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, and Norway  

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

·       SIDS project for OECD HPV (High Production Volume) chemicals

·       Initial health and/or environmental hazard evaluation which uses a combination of data regarding toxic effects and limited exposure to reach an initial hazard assessment about a specific chemical.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

·        Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)

·        Acute and chronic toxicity; odor and vegetative effects

United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)

·        Toxicological Reviews

·        Pesticide Reregistration (REDs and TREDs)

·        Acute Exposure Guideline Limits (AEGLs)

·        Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)

·        IRIS CNRVs (cancer and noncancer risk values)

·        IRIS Acute Exposure Duration (AEDs)

·        IRIS cancer effects

·        IRIS noncancer effects

·        IRIS chronic and less than lifetime exposure durations (CLLED)