Hazardous Substances Data Bank


The Hazardous Substances Data Bank is a toxicology database on the U.S. National Library of Medicine's Toxicology Data Network. It focuses on the toxicology of potentially hazardous chemicals, and includes information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environmental fate, regulatory requirements, and related areas. All data are referenced and derived from a core set of books, government documents, technical reports, and selected primary journal literature. All entries are peer-reviewed by a Scientific Review Panel, members of which represent a spectrum of professions and interests. Current Chairs of the SRP are Dr. Marcel J. Cassavant, MD, Toxicology Group, and Dr. Roland Everett Langford, PhD, Environmental Fate Group.
The HSDB is organized into individual chemical records, and contains over 5000 such records. It is accessible free of charge via TOXNET. Users can search by chemical or other name, chemical name fragment, CAS registry number and/or subject terms. Recent additions include radioactive materials and certain mixtures, like crude oil and oil dispersants as well as animal toxins., there are approximately 5,600 chemical specific HSDB records available.

TOXNET databases

The Toxicology Data Network is a group of databases hosted on the National Library of Medicine website that covers "chemicals and drugs, diseases and the environment, environmental health, occupational safety and health, poisoning, risk assessment and regulations, and toxicology". TOXNET is managed by the NLM's Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program in the Division of Specialized Information Services.
The TOXNET databases include:
  1. HSDB: Hazardous Substances Data Bank
  2. *Peer-reviewed toxicology data for over 5,000 hazardous chemicals
  3. TOXLINE
  4. *4 million references to literature on biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals
  5. ChemIDplus
  6. *Dictionary of over 400,000 chemicals
  7. LactMed: Drugs and Lactation Database
  8. *Drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed
  9. DART: Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology Database
  10. *References to developmental and reproductive toxicology literature
  11. TOXMAP
  12. *Environmental Health Maps provides searchable, interactive maps of EPA TRI and Superfund data, plus US Census and NCI health data
  13. TRI: Toxics Release Inventory
  14. *Annual environmental releases of over 600 toxic chemicals by U.S. facilities
  15. CTD: Comparative Toxicogenomics Database
  16. *Access to scientific data describing relationships between chemicals, genes and human diseases
  17. Household Products Database
  18. *Potential health effects of chemicals in more than 10,000 common household products
  19. Haz-Map
  20. *Links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms
  21. IRIS: Integrated Risk Information System
  22. *Hazard identification and dose-response assessment for over 500 chemicals
  23. ITER: International Toxicity Estimates for Risk
  24. *Risk information for over 600 chemicals from authoritative groups worldwide
  25. ALTBIB
  26. * Resources on Alternatives to the Use of Live Vertebrates in Biomedical Research and Testing