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If you regularly search for information about chemicals, then you may want to try my new tool, Up-REACH! (with apologies for the name..). The tools provides meta-links for 105,000 chemical entries drawn from the EU registration lists (EINECS / ELINCS).

I built Up-REACH to allow rapid access to key chemtox information databases (chemIPplus / PubChem), Phys-Chem (NIST), literature (Hubmed), and EU Classification (ESIS). It’s a good jumping-off point for a chemical hazard assessment, and greatly facilitates read-across assesments.  It has saved me a lot of time and mouse-clicks.

You are very welcome to use it. The main search interface, with a few more options, can be found here.

Where is the Risk Inventory Tool?

I stopped development of the Risk Inventory Tool some time ago. Although the concepts are very relevant to the exposure work required for REACH, there are software providers currently spending time, and our money, to develop REACH-ready implementations.

Good luck to them!
]]> http://www.toxportal.com/2008/06/17/147/feed/ http://www.toxportal.com/2008/06/17/reach-rip-32-guidance/ http://www.toxportal.com/2008/06/17/reach-rip-32-guidance/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:01:10 +0000 admin Chemical Regulations Environmental Health http://www.toxportal.com/2008/06/17/reach-rip-32-guidance/ Here it is, the hefty Guidance on Information Requirements and Chemical Safety Assessment.

The purpose of the concise guidance is to support the processes needed to meet the information requirements on intrinsic properties of substances to be registered, and where relevant to carry out a chemicals safety assessment.

Efficient Elimination of Inhaled Nanoparticles from the Alveolar Region: Evidence for Interstitial Uptake and Subsequent Re-entrainment onto Airways Epithelia
Semmler-Behnke M, Takenaka S, Fertsch S, Wenk A, Seitz J, Mayer P, Oberdorster G, Kreyling WG. 2007. Environ Health Perspect: doi:10.1289/ehp.9685. [Online 6 February 2007]

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I can see all you endnote users smiling smugly right now. But not everyone want to pay $299 for a reference manager

With so many resourceful and generous open-source developers out there, a quick scan of Sourceforge revealed JabRef, a free Java-based reference manager with some very nice features, including a solution for the aforementioned formatting malaise, and the ability to import/export in other popular formats. Regular expressions are supported!

JabRef works perfectly at home, but there is no access to Medline through the proxy server at work (!?). So, Connotea stays in my favourites list for now, feeding JabRef with all that information.

Another score for efficiency and a tip of the hat to the Open Source community.

A Personal Call For Modesty, Integrity, and Balance by Hendrik Tennekes

http://www.connotea.org/

Quite easy to set-up, it allows you to painlessly store, manage and share bibliographic references and, to enter multiple tags for each reference. This means you can strip out the references to any RSS reader or other formats - fantastic!

Using a copy of equally wonderful GreatNews RSS reader on a usb stick, your valuable bibliographic hoard is in your pocket.

“I cannot hide the feeling that the proposal could have been more far-reaching and that I would have wanted to see a more ambitious chemicals management‘s regulation. Despite the shortcomings of the new emerging text on REACH, the two main goals (abolishment of current dual system for the risk assessment of chemicals and the burden of proof) of REACH still hold. And it is better to have a law that a draft law!” 

“It will be interesting to see who will be the first producer who would provide the full safety file to the Chemicals agency….”

I would be more worried about whether the shiny new European Chemicals Agency will have the capacity!