ATSDR’s Toxic Substances Portal

"ATSDR’s Toxic Substances Web Portal makes it easy for researchers and individuals to find information about toxic chemicals, understand how these chemicals can affect health, and learn how to prevent exposure.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) prepare the National Priority List (NPL). The NPL is a “list of national priorities among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States and its territories. The NPL is intended primarily to be a guide to determine which sites warrant further investigation.”

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as the Superfund Act,External requires ATSDR to create toxicological profiles that examine hazardous substances on the NPL. ATSDR began making the profiles and other products available on its website. Initially, toxic substance information was organized by publication, so only those with prior knowledge of ATSDR publications could locate substance information easily..."
Toxic substances

Chemview

"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

A Review of Events that Expose Children to Elemental Mercury in the United States
"Concern for children exposed to elemental mercury prompted the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to
review the sources of elemental mercury exposures in children, describe the location and proportion of children affected, and make recommendations on how to prevent these
exposures. The review excluded mercury exposures from coal-burning facilities, dental
amalgams, fish consumption, medical waste incinerators, or thimerosal-containing vaccines."