Environmental chemistry, safety, MSDS
The Internet has good collections of data on the environmental and toxicological effects of chemical substances. There are also major printed reference sources. See also other data sections of  Chemistry resources.
Typical data in the sources mentioned here include physical properties, human and animal health effects, safety measures in handling, environmental fate and ecotoxicity, test methods. For best results, link to the individual web sites below. You can also do a preliminary search of the sites by entering search terms here:
- Toxseek
- A search engine of toxicological sources from NLM, NIH, WHO and other organisations.
- Chemfinder
- A useful search engine for chemical sites, including environmental and toxicological. Can be searched by name, formula, some properties and substructure.
- MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) gateways and collections:
- ChemWatch, licensed by University of Adelaide for its staff and students
MSDS-Search National Repository
MSDS Xchange
Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet, University of Kentucky
Safety and MSDS, Links for chemists, University of Liverpool
MSDS collection, Vermont Safety Resources on the Internet
Chemical Safety Information, Oxford University
- Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), U.S.
- The EPA's large collection of environmental publications, factsheets and data including:
- IPCS INCHEM, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
- A collection of health and safety, environmental and property data on common chemicals, pesticides, poisons, food additives. Includes:
- Environmental health criteria, World Health Organization. Also Main collection 614.06 W92en.
- Concise international chemical assessment document, World Health Organization. Also Main collection 615.9005 C744.
- International chemical safety cards, IPCS
- Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) Monographs and Evaluations
- Pesticide documents, WHO/FAO
- NIOSH Pocket guide to chemical hazards
- Hazard and property data on chemical hazards in the workplace.
- Toxnet, National Library of Medicine
- A collection of NLM and EPA factual and bibliographic databases on toxicology and hazardous chemicals.
ChemIDplus can be searched by structure, name, registry number, formula and links to substances within Toxnet databases.
Databases include HSDB(hazardous substances), IRIS (human health risk assessment), Gene-Tox (mutagenicity test data), CCRIS (chemical carcinogenesis), Toxline, DART/ETIC(developmental and reproductive toxicology), TRI (releases of toxic chemicals to the environment).
- CAMEO Chemicals: an online database of hazardous chemicals, NOAA
- Has searchable properties and hazards and an option to predict reactivity of mixtures of two chemicals.
- Syracuse Research Corporation databases
- A set of free and demonstration databases including Environmental Fate Data Base: DATALOG, CHEMFATE, BIOLOG, BIODEG; TSCATS: Toxic Substance Control Act Test Submission database; PHYSPROP: physical properties demonstration database.
- RTK Net environmental databases
- A useful collection of health and environmental databases some of which include toxicological information on chemicals.
- DAIN Metadatabase of Internet Resources for Environmental Chemicals
- A search engine to find useful databases on environmental chemicals. The list of databases can be searched by type of database, type of chemical, property.
- Agency for Toxic substances and Disease Registry, U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.
- The agency is concerned with the effect on public health of hazardous substances in the environment. The site includes a database HazDat, fact sheets (ToxFAQs), documents, reports and news and a search engine.
- Chemical Scorecard, Environmental Defense Fund
- A U.S. database showing industrial sources, effects and regulatory control of chemical pollutants.
- Chemical Assessment Reports, National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme, Australia.
- Includes New chemical assessments full public reports and
Priority existing chemical assessment report, also in Main collection 363.179105 P958.2. Has physicochemical properties, toxicity and environmental hazard data.
- National chemical information gateway, Dept of the Environment and Heritage, Australia
- Links to Australian and international regulatory and data web sites including NICNAS: Australian inventory of chemical substances search and safety information sheets.
- Pesticide Action Network Pesticides database
- Human toxicity and ecotoxicity data for more than 6,000 pesticide ingredients.
- Compendium of pesticide common names
- Contains ISO approved common names for pesticides together with IUPAC and CAS names and registry numbers.
- EXTOXNET Pesticide Information Profiles, Oregon State University and others
- Data on health and environmental effects and some physical properties of pesticides.
- Dictionary of substances and their effects. 7 vols. 1993.
- Reference collection 615.9003 R524d
A useful collection of toxicological data on 5000 substances with potential environmental risk. Includes occupational exposure thresholds, ecotoxicity data, environmental fate and physical properties and references. It is arranged alphabetically by substance name. Each volume has its own index by chemical name and CAS registry number. There is no cumulative index for all 7 volumes.
- Sax's dangerous properties of industrial materials. 8th ed. 3 vols. 1992.
- Reference collection 660.03 S272d.7
Includes names, toxicity and safety data for 20,000 chemicals. Volume 1 includes CAS registry number and name indexes.
- Hazardous chemicals desk reference. 1987.
- Main collection 604.7 S272h
A selection of chemicals with data extracted from Sax, but most entries include an expanded toxicity and hazard review.
- Sigma-Aldrich library of chemical safety data. 1985.
- Reference collection 660.03 L566s
Includes names, structure, basic properties, toxicity, hazard data. Has indexes by molecular formula and registry number.
- Dictionary of drugs: chemical data, structures, and bibliographies. J. Elks. Chapman and Hall, 1990.
- Reference collection 615.103 E43d
Gives Chemical abstracts names and registry numbers, brief properties, structures, references to articles. Has name, formula, registry number, type of compound and structure indexes.
- The handbook of environmental chemistry. Springer, 1980-
- Main collection 574.5 H236
A comprehensive series of reviews and data on environmental chemistry, pollution, biogeochemistry. See contents.
- The agrochemicals handbook. 3rd ed. 1994.
- Reference collection 668.65 H332a.3
Includes physicochemical data, analytical methods, uses, mode of action, environmental fate and toxicity data for pesticides. Includes chemical name and family index, registry number index, biological activity (fungicide, herbicide etc) index.
- The pesticide manual : a world compendium. Ed. C.D.S. Tomlin.11th ed. Farnham, Surrey, UK : British Crop Protection Council, 1997.
- Waite Reference 632.95 P476.11
- Illustrated handbook of physical-chemical properties and
environmental fate for organic chemicals. Donald Mackay. Lewis Publishers, c1992-c1997.
- v. 1. Monoaromatic hydrocarbons, chlorobenzenes, and PCBs
v. 2. Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated dioxins, and dibenzofurans
v. 3. Volatile organic chemicals
v. 4. Oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur containing compounds
v. 5. Pesticide chemicals.
Roseworthy Reference 628.52 9
A comprehensive handbook of physicochemical data (MP, BP, density,dissociation constant, thermochemical, solubility in water, vapour pressure, henry's law constant, octanol/water partition coefficient) and environmental data (bioconcentration factor, bioaccumulation factor, sorption partition coefficient, environmental fate and half-lives). Gives a range of values for each property with references to sources.
- Organo-chlorine solvents; health risks to workers. 1986.
- Reference collection 661.891 O681
Includes physicochemical properties and detailed toxicity and hazard data for p-dichlorobenzene; chloroform; 1,1,1-trichloroethane; 1,2-dichloroethane; trichloroethylene; 1,1,2-trichloroethane; dichloromethane; 1,2-dichloropropane; perchloroethyelene; carbon tetrachloride.
- Solvents in common use; health risks to workers. 1988.
- Reference colection 661.807 S691
Physicochemical properties and detailed toxicity and hazard data for acetone; carbon disulphide; diethyl ether; 1,4-dioxane; ethyl acetate; methanol; nitrobenzene; pyridine; toluene; xylene.
- Encyclopaedia of occupational health and safety. Ed
Jeanne Mager Stellman. 4th ed. Geneva : International Labour Office, c1998-
4 vols.
- Reference collection 613.6203 E56.4
Includes articles on OHS topics and data on chemicals including brief physical and chemical properties and hazard data.
- Handbook of environmental data on organic chemicals. Karel
Verschueren. 3rd ed. John Wiley, 1996.
- Reference collection 547 V562h.3
A substantial set of data on organic compounds including chemical and physical properties such as melting point, boiling point, vapour pressure, solubility, density; air, water and soil pollution factors; biological effects on a range of organisms. Arranged by chemical name with molecular formula and CAS registry number indexes. Has extensive literature references.
- VNR dictionary of environmental health and safety. 1994.
- Reference collection 613.6203 L769v
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