Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS), 1985-86 edition: User's Guide, Volumes 1, 2, 3, 3a, 4 and 5

Technical Report · Wed Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6769768

Sweet, D V

This is the fourteenth edition of the Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS), published by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). RTECS is intended to provide basic information on the known toxic and biological effects of chemical substances to employers, employees, industrial hygienists, physicians, researchers, toxicologists, and anyone else with the need to know in order to assure proper and safe handling of chemicals. This new Edition supersedes all previous printed editions and represents the contents of the complete file as of April 1987. The Edition of RTECS contains 88,693 prime chemical substances with their associated toxicity data. For these entries, 227,263 synonyms are included as cross-references.

• Research Organization: Advanced Engineering and Planning Corp., Inc., Rockville, MD (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6769768
• Report Number(s): PB-88-233754/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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