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Chemical Exposure Information
- Acute Exposure and Rapid Response
- Chemical Specific Exposure Limits
- Acute and Emergency
- Chronic and Longer Term
- Dermal and Other
- Hazard Classification and Labeling
- Comprehensive Primary Reference Sources
Acute Exposures and Rapid Response
Links provided below are designed to quickly provide chemical information for acute exposure. Sites listed on this page below contain links to information sources for specific chemicals including exposure guidelines, physical and chemical properties, environmental fate and transport, and comprehensive on-line databases of toxicology and epidemiology literature.
More information for emergency situation guidelines on CHEMM can be found at:
- Chemical Hazard Information from WISER (HHS/NIH/National Library of Medicine)
- Medical and Emergency Management Procedures: Types and Categories of Hazardous Chemicals
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Guidelines
- Decontamination Procedures
- On-site Activities
- Triage Guidelines
Chemical-Specific Exposure Limits
Below are sites for use with known chemical name or CAS number. Below listed are safe limits based on duration for a number of chemicals and organizations.
- Acute and Emergency
- AEGLs (Acute Exposure Guideline Levels) (EPA, Office of Pesticides)
- Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPG) (American Industrial Hygiene Association)
- IDLH (Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health) (HHS/CDC/NIOSH)
- CalEPA RELs (Reference Exposure Limits) (State of California, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment)
- Protective Action Criteria (PAC) with AEGLs, ERPGs, & TEELs (Acute Exposure Guideline Level, Emergency Response Planning Guideline, Temporary Emergency Exposure Limit values) (DOE)
- ToxProfiles: Toxicological Profile Information Sheet (HHS/CDC/ATSDR)
- Chemical Agents (HHS/CDC)
- Chronic and Longer-term
- General Population
- ITER (International Toxicity Estimates for Risk)
- IRIS: Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) (EPA)
- ToxProfiles (HHS/CDC/ATSDR)
- Canadian Environmental Protection Act, Priority Substances List Supporting Documentation: Health-Based Tolerable Daily Intakes/Concentrations and Tumourigenic Doses/Concentrations for Priority Substances (PDF - 180 KB) (Health Canada, Aug 1996)
- IARC Monographs (WHO)
- NSF International, Standards and Publications (NSF International)
- TDI (Tolerable Daily Intake): RIVM (The National Institute of Public Health & Environmental Protection, Netherlands)
- IPCS (Interrnation Programme for Chemical Safety) (WHO, Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents (CICADs))
- Information on Chemicals (European Chemicals Agency, ECHA)
- Chemical Safety (OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development)
- ITER (International Toxicity Estimates for Risk)
- Occupational
- NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards - Recommended Exposure Limits (NIOSH RELs) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs) (HHS/CDC/NIOSH)
- Workplace Environmental Exposure Levels (WEEL) (American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), TERA.org)
- TLV/BEIs (American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH))
- Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits (SCOEL) (European Commission)
- Occupational Exposure Limits Summary of information from European Union Member States and other Sources
- General Population
Hazard Classification and Labeling
- International Chemical Safety Cards (ICSC) (WHO)
- International Chemical Safety Cards (ICSC) (HHS/CDC)
- SIRI MSDS Index
- Chemical Hazard Information from WISER (HHS/NIH/National Library of Medicine)
Comprehensive Primary Reference Sources
- PubMed (HHS/NIH/National Library of Medicine)
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