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> From: Jacqueline Patterson <patterson at TERA.ORG>
> Date: April 22, 2004 8:30:47 AM CDT
> To: TOXLIST at ESC.SYRRES.COM> Subject: ITER joins TOXNET
> Reply-To: General Toxicology Discussions <TOXLIST at ESC.SYRRES.COM>
>> The International Toxicity Estimates for Risk(ITER)Database Joins the
> National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) TOXNET System
>> The Result: An Expanding Web Resource on Comparative Risk Information,
> Which Includes Data from Additional Organizations
>> (Cincinnati, OH) – Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA) is
> pleased to announce the recent addition of its International Toxicity
> Estimates for Risk (ITER) Database (http://www.TERA.org/ITER) to the
> National Library of Medicine's (NLM) TOXNET system,
> (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov). ITER is a free Internet database of
> human health risk values for over 600 chemicals of environmental
> concern. The addition of ITER to TOXNET is a benefit to both
> organizations and results in an enhanced risk resource. As part of
> TOXNET,ITER can now be searched by chemical synonym and via free
> text. In addition, a multi-file searching function will soon be added
> and will allow a single query to be run against multiple toxicological
> databases, includingITER. Links to TOXLINE will allow users to obtain
> current literature references and abstracts onITERchemicals. ITER has
> strengthened and broadened TOXNET’s data in support of risk assessment
> by its incorporation of sound risk values from highly regarded
> national and international organizations.
>> In addition to users now having the choice of accessingITER directly
> from theTERA web site or through the TOXNET system,TERA also announces
> the addition of new data from a number of additional organizations.
> These new data will strengthenITER by providing additional risk values
> for existing chemicals, as well as expanding the coverage of chemicals
> with unique assessments from these organizations.
>>>> TERA is delighted to announce the upcoming addition of data to
> ITERfrom NSF International (www.nsf.org). NSF International, an
> independent, not-for-profit global leader in providing public health
> and safety risk management solutions, develops both noncancer and
> cancer oral risk assessment documents. Data from these publications
> will be added toITER during 2004 through a joint partnership between
> the two organizations.
>> TERA is in the process of adding cancer classifications to ITERfrom
> the International Agency for Research on Cancer's (IARC) Monographs
> (http://monographs.iarc.fr/). This work has been made possible by
> in-kind support provided toTERA by both IARC and Concurrent
> Technologies Corporation(CTC, www.ctc.com), as well as a financial
> contribution from the National Institute of Environmental Health
> Sciences (NIEHS,www.niehs.nih.gov).
>> Finally,TERA has recently added risk data to ITERfrom the National
> Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The
> Netherlands. RIVM develops human-toxicological risk limits (i.e.,
> maximum permissible risk levels, MPRs) for a variety of chemicals
> based on chemical assessments that are compiled in the framework of
> the Dutch government program on risks in relation to soil quality.
> The RIVM MPRs that were updated in 2001 and published in "Baars AJ et
> al. 2001.Re-evaluation of human-toxicological maximum permissible risk
> levels.RIVM report no. 711701025, National Institute of Public Health
> and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, March 2001"
> (available athttp://www.rivm.nl/bibliotheek/rapporten/711701025.pdf),
> have recently been added to ITER. RIVM has provided in-kind support
> toTERA to make this addition possible.
>> For furtherITERupdates and announcements please see the ITER"What's
> New" page athttp://www.TERA.org/ITER/what's%20new.htm.>> Contacts:
>> Andrea Wullenweber, Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA)
>425-486-1769,wullenweber at tera.org>> Philip Wexler, Toxicology and Environmental Health Information
> Program, National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of
> Health (NIH) 301-496-6346,wexlerp at mail.nlm.nih.gov>>>>> Jacqueline Patterson,TERA
>
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