Transparency: Finding Public Information on Chemicals

EPA and other federal and international agencies maintain a variety of sites where you can find information on:

Whether and how chemicals are regulated
What chemicals are in your community
What EPA and other agencies know about the health and environmental effects of specific chemicals

In September 2009, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson committed to strengthen EPA's current chemical management program. And a major part of that commitment was to increase access to and transparency in TSCA-related chemical information held by EPA and companies. Read about the series of actions EPA has been taking to fulfill that commitment:

Chemical Information Sources:

Chemical Data Access Tool to find health and safety data that has been submitted to the Agency, under authorities in sections 4, 5, and 8 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), as well as declassified informatoin. The tool is also available on Data.gov.

TSCA Chemical Substance Inventory to get a list of each chemical substance that is manufactured or processed in the United States.

EPA’s Substance Registry Services (SRS) to learn whether and how EPA regulates a specific chemical under TSCA or under any of the other laws administered by the Agency. Please note that SRS is an information resource only, and may not provide complete information on applicable regulations.

EPA’s Envirofacts Data Warehouse to get information on chemicals present in your community.

EPA’s High Production Volume Information System (HPVIS) to learn about the hazards of high production volume chemicals. HPVIS includes data submitted by companies and hazard characterizations prepared by EPA

National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to learn what the U.S. government knows about health effects from exposures to chemicals in the environment.

ATSDR’s Toxic Substances Portal to get links to all of its studies and reports on specific chemicals to see health information prepared for health professionals and citizens by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry – a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – on chemicals known to be toxic to humans.

eChemPortal, a search engine maintained by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which provides access to government databases of chemical information from around the world, to see information on chemical properties from other governments as well as from the United States.

National Library of Medicine’s TOXNET to search databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and related areas.

Transparency: Finding Public Information on Chemicals

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