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About ChemView
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- Read the Comprehensive User's Guide (30 pp., 1.5 mb.) About PDF)
On this page you will find:
- What’s in ChemView Right Now?
- Features and Search Capabilities
- Stakeholder Input About the Database
- Your Feedback and Questions
To improve chemical safety and provide more streamlined access to information on chemicals, EPA has built and is populating a new database. This new database, named ChemView, greatly improves access to health and safety data on chemicals regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). It contains information EPA receives and develops about chemicals including those on EPA’s Safer Chemical Ingredient List.
ChemView is part of EPA's commitment to strengthen its chemicals management programs by improving access to and the usefulness of chemical information. The goal is for people to easily get information they need to make safe chemical choices. It can help businesses, individuals and others make more informed decisions about the chemicals they use.
While the current version of ChemView contains a substantial amount of information, when fully populated, ChemView will contain data for thousands of chemicals regulated under TSCA. In the months ahead, EPA will be continually adding chemicals, data, assessments, functionality, and links to source documents.
| When using Chem View, if you do not receive results for a particular chemical, it does not mean EPA does not have information on that chemical; the data may not be posted yet but will be available in the future as EPA continues to populate the database. It does not contain any Confidential Business Information (CBI). |
What’s in ChemView Right Now?
EPA is populating the ChemView database in phases, and it currently contains information on more than 1,500 chemicals. To help users easily find both summary and more detailed information, EPA has developed data templates to capture key information in a consistent summary format and provided links to the original source documents. At this time, users can find information organized in templates for the following types of data:
- Data Submitted to EPA
- Test rule data for 146 chemicals
- EPA Assessments
- Hazard Characterizations for 1,016 chemicals
- Design for the Environment Alternatives Assessments for 48 Chemicals
- EPA Actions
- Significant New Use Rules (SNURs) for 505 chemicals that did not go through pre-market EPA review (so-called “Existing Chemicals”)
If the user needs background or more detailed information than provided in the summary templates, links are provided to the original source documents.
ChemView also contains links to other data, which is not yet summarized in uniform data templates, including:
- Data Submitted to EPA
- Health and Safety Studies submitted under TSCA section 8(d) for 140 chemicals
- Substantial Risk Reports submitted under TSCA section 8(e) for 261 chemicals
- High Production Volume Information System voluntary submissions for 1,169 chemicals
- EPA Assessments
- Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Assessments for 548 chemicals
- Design for the Environment List of Safer Chemical Ingredients for 602 chemicals
- Manufacturing, Processing, Use, and Release Data
- Chemical Data Reporting for 7,221 chemicals
- Toxics Release Inventory data for 611 chemicals
As ChemView is populated, EPA will compile the summary level information and format it into easy-to-read data templates.
Features and Search Capabilities
Highlights:
- Easy access to thousands of documents, including hazard characterizations, alternative assessments, test data submitted to EPA, and TSCA regulatory actions
- Summary information with links to more detailed information, e.g., the submitted study or Federal Register notice
- Chemical synonyms with auto-fill to power the search engine
ChemView enables searches on:
- Individual or multiple chemicals (by chemical name or CAS number)
- Endpoint (health or environmental effect)
- Use
- Chemical Category
- Chemical Group (Work Plan chemicals or Safer Chemical Ingredients List)
- Use categories for Significant New Use Rules (SNURs)
- Accession Number
For one or multiple chemicals, users can select the type of information they wish to obtain including:
- Data Submitted to EPA
- EPA Assessments
- EPA Actions
- Manufacturing, Processing, Use and Release Data
ChemView can be used to:
- Tailor a search by using various combinations from the criteria listed above
- Identify chemicals by searching for certain health effects (endpoints)
- Compare data for multiple chemicals
- Identify specific actions EPA has taken on the chemical
- Export data for additional analysis
- Identify and view documents on safer chemical ingredients
- Identify and view TSCA-related information
- Obtain source documents
Stakeholder Input About the Database
EPA held several discussion forums to gather input on the types of information and portal design that would be useful. EPA appreciates the feedback and has incorporated it into the design and functionality of ChemView.
Your Feedback and Questions
Give us your comments on how to improve the functionality, content and appearance of ChemView.
| EPA's ChemView web tool is not associated with ChemViews, the online magazine of ChemPubSoc Europe. |
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