The Tools for HPV Chemical
Assessment & Safer Design
Green Chemistry in Commerce Council
Session 6A
Thursday December 14, 2006
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12/14/06
GC3 Tools Team Members
Dave Long- SC Johnson John Frazier- Nike
Ken Alston MCBD
Alston- Mark Rossi Clean Product Action
Rossi-
Mike Rose- Interface David Wilkinson- C&A Floor Covering
Carol Sunduis-Tyco Electronics
y Wendy Porter- Interface Fabrics
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Suk Whang- Interface Lauren Heine- GreenBlue Institute
Mary Ellen Mika- Steelcase Yve Torrie- Lowell Center
Melissa Coffin- Lowell Center Joel Tickner-Lowell Center
Tom Swarr- UTC Connie Hensler- Interface
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Why is a Tools Database Needed
?Companies, Universities and other chemical uses have
diffi lt fi di meaningful chemical i f
difficulty finding i f l h i l information t
ti to
safely use, work with and dispose of chemicals.
?MSDS are required by OSHA but they often provide minimal
information. They often lack information to understand
the toxicity long term hazards environmental fate
toxicity, hazards, fate,
properties or even the composition.
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Information on many chemicals or modeling t l exist b t
ti h il d li tools i t but
can be difficult to locate
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Tools Database Goals
?Provide a single location that provides multiple resources
for chemical properties toxicity and environmental data
properties, data.
?Provide links for each resource. The link may need updated
rather th recreating a d t b
th than ti database where i f
h information
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needs to be updated periodically.
?Provide user comments describing the database or modeling
programs. Can include comments on ease of use and
validity of the information Describe limitations to the
information.
database or modeling program. Comments can be added
by users over time.
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What Tools & Databases are Available
?There are numerous free sources of chemical data. One
must search to find the databases.
?There are also several excellent subscriber chemical
databases.
?In addition to databases there are numerous chemical
modeling programs for hazard and risk assessment exposure
assessment,
assessment tools, fate assessment tools and safer chemistry
design tools
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GC3 Tools Database
Lets take a look at the current organization of the database