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Risk Resources and Databases

Oliver — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:48:17 GMT

The Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base

PharmGKB curates information that establishes knowledge about the relationships among drugs, diseases and genes, including their variations and gene products. The mission is to catalyze pharmacogenomics research.

http://www.pharmgkb.org/index.jsp

Nano Risk

Oliver — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:37:21 GMT

The project on Emerging Nanotechnology maintains a list of products containing nanomaterials.

Their inventory, which can be browsed by product name, product category, company, or country of origin, is available at:

http://www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/consumer/browse/products/

Training

moderator — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:49:11 GMT

Upcoming Training Opportunities

From http://www.itrcweb.org

In Situ Bioremediation of Chlorinated EtheneDNAPL Source Zones

September 9 (Tuesday) 2:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time

Enhanced Attenuation of Chlorinated Solvents: A Site Management Tool

September 11 (Thursday) 11:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Eastern Time

Quality Consideration for Munitions Response

September 16 (Tuesday) 2:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time

Survey of Munitions Response Technologies

September 18 (Thursday) 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time

Planning and Promoting Ecological Land Reuse of Remediated Sites

September 23 (Tuesday) 2:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Eastern Time

In Situ Sensors for Environmental Sampling, Characterization and Monitoring

September 25 (Thursday) 11:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Eastern Time

Risk model for vegetables/fruits re: VOCs in irrigation water

LSGrimm — Thur, 05 Jun 2008 19:43:10 GMT

Does anyone have a model they can share to predict the human health risk from contaminated irrigation well water, specific to the uptake of VOCs in fruit and vegetables?

RiskIE Frequently Asked Questions

moderator — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:55:44 GMT

1. What is RiskIE?

The Risk Information Exchange (RiskIE) is an Internet database that contains notifications about a variety of human health risk assessment projects that are in progress or recently completed. This web-based system enables users to publicly share and track the progress of projects and can be used to identify opportunities for collaboration in the health protection efforts among organizations. By providing this centralized source of project information, RiskIE aims to help bridge communication gaps among government, industry, academic, and environmental stakeholders of the risk assessment community. RiskIE is one of the many risk resources provided by the Alliance for Risk Assessment.

2. How is the information on RiskIE compiled?

We are always seeking projects for inclusion on RiskIE. Many of the projects currently tracked on RiskIE are publicly listed by the organization conducting the assessment. We have compiled the data from these many lists to be available in one convenient centralized location. Other organizations have submitted projects using the RiskIE Project Submission Form, or by email to RiskIE@tera.org.

3. How does RiskIE relate to the International Toxicity Estimates for Risk Database (ITER)?

RiskIE complements ITER in that RiskIE contains notifications of risk assessment work in progress, and includes information about other risk assessment work that is not chemical-specific. ITER is a database of final, peer reviewed human health risk assessment data from a variety of organizations worldwide. If peer reviewed, a project listed on RiskIE may graduate to the ITER database upon completion.

4. Where can I find RiskIE?

RiskIE is located at http://www.allianceforrisk.org/RiskIE.htm and will soon be added to the National Library of Medicines TOXNET compilation of databases http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/.

5. What does RiskIE include?

RiskIE contains project notifications for scheduled, in progress, and recently completed work related to human health risk assessment. Each project in RiskIE includes:

Chemical name

CAS no.

Organization

Contact

Project description

Status

Anticipated date of completion

Link to more information (when available)

For a list of the organizations included on RiskIE, please click here.

6. Can I search RiskIE?

RiskIE is fully searchable. The database can be queried by Chemical Name, CAS, Project Type, Project Description, Organization, Date of Completion, or Contact person.

RiskIE is also sortable. Clicking on the column header of any column will sort the projects according to the content of that column. Clicking the header a second time will then reverse the order. For example, clicking the Chemical Name column header will organize the projects alphabetically A to Z. Clicking Chemical Name a second time then organizes the projects reverse alphabetically Z to A.

7. How often is RiskIE updated?

RiskIE undergoes major updates quarterly. Minor edits occur regularly.

8. Where can I submit my organizations ongoing projects to be included in the RiskIE database?

We encourage you to share your ongoing risk assessments on RiskIE. Projects can be submitted using the RiskIE Project Submission Form. Simply enter the relevant information and click submit. Projects received will be reviewed for completeness and appropriateness before they are added to RiskIE. If you have multiple projects, you may also submit them in bulk in a spreadsheet (see here for an example file) to RiskIE@tera.org.

9. Where can I make comments or suggestions about RiskIE?

Please let us know if you have questions on how to use RiskIE or suggestions for improving the database. Please use the ARA message board for posting your comments and questions for the general public, or contact us directly at RiskIE@tera.org. We will respond as quickly as possible.

10. How is RiskIE used?

RiskIE is used to find and track in progress human health risk assessment work. Users can search for a specific chemical, search for all projects currently being conducted within a specific organization, or search for recently added/updated projects, among other searches. RiskIE can be used to identify opportunities for collaboration and resource sharing.

RiskIE can be used by organizations to bring attention and transparency to their ongoing work. Providing a list of ongoing work gives others an idea of the organizations abilities and areas of focus.

RiskIE

Oliver — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:28:44 GMT

The Risk Information Exchange (RiskIE) will be an online system for tracking risk assessment projects currently in progress. We hope that RiskIE will improve communication within the risk assessment community, and thereby increase our collective efficiency in the development of risk values. As an initial step, we are working to identify organizations with tracking systems available to the public. To date, databases we have indentified include:

AIHA's ERPGs (Emergency Response Planning Guides)
ACGIH's TLVs with Notices of Intent to Change
ATSDR's Toxicological Profile drafts
EU's ORATS (Online Risk Assessment Tracking System)
NTP's Testing Status Page
US EPA's IRIS Track
US EPA's AEGLs (Acute Exposure Guideline Levels)

Does anyone else know of other databases we can inlcude?

Welcome

moderator — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:51:26 GMT

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