Resources for global risk assessment: The International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER) and Risk Information Exchange (RiskIE) databases
- Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA), 2300 Montana Avenue, Suite 409, Cincinnati, OH 45211 (United States)
- Noblis, Falls Church, VA (United States)
- National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD (United States)
- Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), Johnstown, PA (United States)
The rate of chemical synthesis and use has outpaced the development of risk values and the resolution of risk assessment methodology questions. In addition, available risk values derived by different organizations may vary due to scientific judgments, mission of the organization, or use of more recently published data. Further, each organization derives values for a unique chemical list so it can be challenging to locate data on a given chemical. Two Internet resources are available to address these issues. First, the International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER) database ( (www.tera.org/iter)) provides chronic human health risk assessment data from a variety of organizations worldwide in a side-by-side format, explains differences in risk values derived by different organizations, and links directly to each organization's website for more detailed information. It is also the only database that includes risk information from independent parties whose risk values have undergone independent peer review. Second, the Risk Information Exchange (RiskIE) is a database of in progress chemical risk assessment work, and includes non-chemical information related to human health risk assessment, such as training modules, white papers and risk documents. RiskIE is available at (http://www.allianceforrisk.org/RiskIE.htm), and will join ITER on National Library of Medicine's TOXNET ( (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/)). Together, ITER and RiskIE provide risk assessors essential tools for easily identifying and comparing available risk data, for sharing in progress assessments, and for enhancing interaction among risk assessment groups to decrease duplication of effort and to harmonize risk assessment procedures across organizations.
- OSTI ID:
- 21180467
- Journal Information:
- Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, Vol. 233, Issue 1; Conference: 2007 TRAC: 2007 toxicology and risk assessment conference: Emerging issues and challenges in risk assessment, West Chester, OH (United States), 23-26 Apr 2007; Other Information: DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2007.12.035; PII: S0041-008X(08)00276-7; Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0041-008X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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