Chemical Safety Research
EPA's Chemical Safety research protects human health and the environment by evaluating chemicals for potential risk and providing tools and guidance for improved chemical production that supports a sustainable environment.
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Hormone Disrupting Chemicals
EPA research improves the understanding of potential risks to human health and wildlife from chemicals that could disrupt the endocrine (hormone) system.
Pharmaceuticals products and endocrine disruption
Exposure Biomarkers in Aquatic Organisms
Using rapid, automated technology to assess chemicals for endocrine disruption
Innovative Chemical Safety Testing
EPA research integrates advances in molecular biology, chemistry and computer science to more effectively and efficiently rank chemicals based on risk.
Exposure Science in the 21st century (ExpoCast)™
Toxicity Forecaster (ToxCast)™
Toxicity Testing in the 21st century collaboration (Tox21)
Next Generation of Risk Assessment
Nanomaterials
EPA researchers are working to understand the potential risks to humans and the environment from exposure to nanomaterials - materials thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair.
Nanoscale Silver in Disinfectant Spray (Final Report)
Types of nanomaterials under investigation
Nanosized fuel additives
Exposure to nanomaterials
Human Health Effects
Sustainable Solutions
EPA is researching the sustainable molecular design of less toxic ("green") chemicals.
Green Chemistry
Sustainability
Design for the Environment
Sustainable Solutions
Sustainable Technology
Chemical Exposure
There are biological responses in humans and animals that indicate exposure to a chemical, an effect from exposure to a chemical and susceptibility to adverse effects from a chemical.
Chemical Exposure & Health Effects
Cumulative Risk
Exposure
Perfluorinated Chemicals
Chemical Life Cycle
Health and Chemical Safety
EPA researchers are working to better understand the important biological processes involved with adverse outcomes and improving methods that will better assess the impacts of chemical exposure to human health.
PCBs in Caulk Research
Population and physiological variables
Virtual Embryo
Susceptible populations
Models, Databases and Tools
Researchers provide sophisticated models, databases and tools that are widely used to manage chemical safety across the nation.
Computational Toxicology Data Warehouse
Chemical Exposure Studies Database
Ecological Toxicity Information Database
Exposure Research Tools
Grants & Funding for Chemical Safety Research
EPA provides grants and funding to the nation's leading researchers to improve the scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues.
Nano Centers
CompTox centers
Research on biological processes relevant to adverse health effects
