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Looking for more
risk assessment information or resources?
Here are a few places you might want to visit...
Internet
NewsGroups of Interest to Risk Assessors:
- RISKANAL - The Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory and the Columbia-Cascades Chapter of
the Society for Risk Analysis have set up this risk
analysis Internet mailing list, as a service to the
international risk analysis community. RISKANAL is a
discussion list focused on risk analysis. RISKANAL is
affiliated with the Society for Risk Analysis, a
multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, scholarly,
international society that provides an open forum for all
those who are interested in risk analysis. Risk analysis
is broadly defined to include risk assessment, risk
characterization, risk communication, risk management and
policy relationg to risk, in the context of risks of
concern to individuals, to public and private sector
organizations, and to society as a local, regional,
national, or global level. This link will take
you to Lyris instructions
- ToxList - to join, send message to:
listserv@esc.syrres.com
Content of message: Subscribe ToxList
ToxList is an electronic group created for the discussion
and dissemination of issues and information related to
all fields of toxicology.
- Enviro-Newsbrief - to join, send
message to: listserver@unixmail.rtpnc.epa.gov
Content of message: Subscribe EnvironB-L first_name
last_name
Enviro-Newsbrief provides a summary of the news that
affects EPA, especially: appointments to the EPA and
other environment-related appointnemts; the Council of
Environmental Quality; changes to OMB's process of
regulatory review; regulatory reform: "reinventing
government"; environmental legislation; federal
employee issues; and interagency work on environmental
issues.
Some World Wide Web
Home Pages of Interest to Risk Assessors:
U.S.
Sites: Government
Other
U.S. Sites
- AIHA
The mission of the American Industrial Hygiene
Association is to increase the knowledge of industrial
and environmental health through interchange and
dissemination of information; to bring together persons
interested in the various phases of industrial and
environmental health; to promote the profession through
the encouragement of interest within and cooperation with
governmental, industrial, educational, and other
professional bodies, and to promote the study,
evaluation, and control of environmental stresses arising
in or from the work place or its products.
- ACGIH
The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) is a
member-based organization and community of professionals that advances
worker health and safety through education and the development and
dissemination of scientific and technical knowledge.
- American
Board of Toxicology
- American
College of Toxicology
The mission of the American College of Toxicology is to
educate and lead professionals in industry, government
and related areas of toxicology by actively promoting the
exchange of information and perspectives on the current
status of safety assessment and the application of new
developments in toxicology.
- CARES CARES -
Cumulative and Aggregate Risk Evaluation System. A new,
comprehensive, open source software program under
development by the American Crop Protection Association (ACPA) to address risk assessment requirements mandated
by the 1996 Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA).
- The
Environmental Fate Data Bases (EFDB) are now
available free of charge thanks to Syracuse Research
Corporation and support from U.S. EPA, Procter &
Gamble, and Du Pont. These online databases identify or
provide all of the information necessary for assessing
human or environmental exposure to chemicals from
occupational and consumer use, environmental
contamination, and food consumption. This is a excellent
way to identify physical properties (water solubility, vp, log P, pKa, Henry's law constants, etc.), degradation
or transport information, and ambient and effluent
monitoring data. EFDB is comprised of several
interrelated files — DATALOG, BIOLOG, CHEMFATE and
BIODEG and was developed by Syracuse Research Corporation
under the sponsorship of the EPA since1979.
- DATALOG
is a bibliographic file that contains 18 types of
environmental fate data, including information
about physical properties, environmental
degradation, transport processes and monitoring.
The file is indexed by CAS Registry Numbers and
contains over 350,000 records on over 16,000
chemicals.
- BIOLOG
provides sources of microbial toxicity and data
concerning biodegradation. It contains 60,000
records on 7,600 chemicals.
- CHEMFATE
contains 23 data categories relating to
commercially important chemical compounds,
including information on environmental fate,
chemical and physical properties, and monitoring
data. Actual experimental values are abstracted
and retained in the file. CHEMFATE contains
17,214 records on 1,728 chemicals.
- BIODEG
contains experimental values derived from
biodegradation studies and includes evaluation
codes that can be used for predicting
biodegradability. This file contains actual
experimental results for approximately 1,000
chemicals.
- Environmental Mutagenesis Society
The Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) is the
primary scientific society fostering research on the
basic mechanisms of mutagenesis as well as on the
application of this knowledge in the field of genetic
toxicology.
- EXtension TOXicology NETwork
(EXTOXNET)
Cooperative effort among various universities to
stimulate dialog on toxicology issues, and to make
toxicology information available. Includes newsletter,
fact sheets, chemical profiles, etc.
- ILSI
Through its international network of branches,
ILSI works toward global harmonization and by helping to
solve scientific problems that touch people in many
countries and regions.
- The LifeLine Group
The LifeLine Group is a not for profit organization that is the creator of
LifeLine(TM) Software for the Assessment of Cumulative and Aggregate
Exposures to pesticides and other chemicals.
- LINEA Inc.
A world leader in exposure assessment for chemicals and pesticides
- Ohio Society for Risk
Analysis
The Ohio Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis (OSRA) is an
officially chartered chapter of the national SRA, and maintain a
membership independent of, but in association with, the national
organization. They are interested in risk analysis, risk assessment and
risk management and represent the academic, commercial, consultative,
governmental and industrial sectors.
- Resources for the Future (RFF)
This Washington, D.C. organization includes a Center for
Risk Management, and this site provides linkages to the
homepages of other information
- RiskWorld
An international www publication, covering news and views
on risk assessment and risk management
- Toxicology News Group via the BIOSC/bionet
Electronic Newsgroup Network for Biology
Choose "toxicology" from the newsgroups listed
in "archives".
- SETAC
Society of Environmental Toxicology and
Chemistry (SETAC®)
- Society
for Risk Analysis
The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) provides an open
forum for all those who are interested in risk analysis.
Risk analysis is broadly defined to include risk
assessment, risk characterization, risk communication,
risk management, and policy relating to risk.
- Society
of Toxicology
The Society of Toxicology is a professional and scholarly
organization of scientists from academic institutions,
government, and industry representing the great variety
of scientists who practice toxicology in the U.S. and
abroad. The Society promotes the acquisition and
utilization of knowledge in toxicology, aids in the
protection of public health, and facilitates disciplines.
The Society has a strong commitment to education in
toxicology and to the recruitment of students and new
members into the profession.
International
Sites
Canada
Japan
National Institute of Health Sciences (Ministry of
Health and Welfare)
Sweden
The
Netherlands
National Institute of Public Health and
Environmental Protection (RIVM)
Private
Sector, Non-Governmental Organizations:
Feel free to let
us know of any other appropriate links or links listed here that
are not working correctly!
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