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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 21, 2004
Contacts:
Andrea Wullenweber, Toxicology Excellence for Risk
Assessment (TERA) 425-486-1769, wullenweber@tera.org
Philip Wexler, Toxicology and Environmental Health
Information Program, National Library of Medicine (NLM), National
Institutes of Health (NIH) 301-496-6346, wexlerp@mail.nlm.nih.gov
The
International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER)
Database Joins the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) TOXNET System
The Result: An Expanding Web Resource on Comparative
Risk Information, Which Includes Data from Additional Organizations
(Cincinnati, OH) – Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA) is pleased to announce the recent addition of its
International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER)
Database (http://www.TERA.org/ITER) to the
National Library of Medicine's (NLM) TOXNET system, (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov).
ITER is a free Internet
database of human health risk values for over 600 chemicals of
environmental concern. The
addition of ITER to TOXNET is a
benefit to both organizations and results in an enhanced risk resource. As
part of TOXNET, ITER can now be
searched by chemical synonym and via free text.
In addition, a multi-file searching function will soon be added and
will allow a single query to be run against multiple toxicological
databases, including ITER.
Links to TOXLINE will allow users to obtain current literature
references and abstracts on ITER
chemicals. ITER
has strengthened and broadened TOXNET’s data in support of risk
assessment by its incorporation of sound risk values from highly regarded
national and international organizations.
In addition to users now having the choice of
accessing ITER directly from the
TERA web site or through the
TOXNET system, TERA also
announces the addition of new data from a number of additional
organizations. These new data
will strengthen ITER by
providing additional risk values for existing chemicals, as well as
expanding the coverage of chemicals with unique assessments from these
organizations.
TERA is
delighted to announce the upcoming addition of data to ITER from NSF International (www.nsf.org).
NSF International, an independent, not-for-profit global leader in
providing public health and safety risk management solutions, develops
both noncancer and cancer oral risk assessment documents.
Data from these publications will be added to ITER
during 2004 through a joint partnership between the two organizations.
TERA is in
the process of adding cancer classifications to ITER
from the International Agency for Research on Cancer's (IARC) Monographs (http://monographs.iarc.fr/).
This work has been made possible by in-kind support provided to TERA by both IARC and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC,
www.ctc.com), as well as a financial
contribution from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
(NIEHS, www.niehs.nih.gov).
Finally, TERA
has recently added risk data to ITER
from the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM),
The Netherlands. RIVM
develops human-toxicological risk limits (i.e., maximum permissible risk
levels, MPRs) for a variety of chemicals based on chemical assessments
that are compiled in the framework of the Dutch government program on
risks in relation to soil quality. The
RIVM MPRs that were updated in 2001 and published in "Baars AJ et al.
2001. Re-evaluation of human-toxicological maximum permissible risk levels.
RIVM report no. 711701025, National Institute of Public Health and the
Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, March 2001" (available at http://www.rivm.nl/bibliotheek/rapporten/711701025.pdf),
have recently been added to ITER.
RIVM has provided in-kind
support to TERA to make this
addition possible.
For further ITER
updates and announcements please see the ITER
"What's New" page at http://www.TERA.org/ITER/what's%20new.htm.
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