European chemical Substances Information System
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The European chemical Substances Information System (ESIS) is the information system on chemicals of the European Union
created by the former European Chemicals Bureau, which completed its mandate in 2008. It was set up by the Joint Research Council of the European Union in order to make data on the safety of chemicals more readily accessible to the public, offering a single search tool on chemicals and the legislation under which they are presently covered. By June 16 2011, ESIS contained 14,897 substance records.
ESIS provides access to several registers and lists, shown below:
The following databases were originally part of ESIS, but have been taken over by the European Chemicals Agency
(ECHA), which will also ensure further updates:
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created by the former European Chemicals Bureau, which completed its mandate in 2008. It was set up by the Joint Research Council of the European Union in order to make data on the safety of chemicals more readily accessible to the public, offering a single search tool on chemicals and the legislation under which they are presently covered. By June 16 2011, ESIS contained 14,897 substance records.
ESIS provides access to several registers and lists, shown below:
- EINECS (European Inventory of Existing Commercial chemical Substances)
- NLP (No-Longer Polymers)
- BPD (BiocidalBiocideA biocide is a chemical substance or microorganism which can deter, render harmless, or exert a controlling effect on any harmful organism by chemical or biological means. Biocides are commonly used in medicine, agriculture, forestry, and industry...
Products Directive) - Export and Import of Dangerous Chemicals
The following databases were originally part of ESIS, but have been taken over by the European Chemicals Agency
European Chemicals Agency
The European Chemicals Agency is an agency of the European Union which manages the technical, scientific and administrative aspects of the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals system...
(ECHA), which will also ensure further updates:
- ELINCSELINCS- ELINCS within healthcare software interoperability :The EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Specification specification provides a profile that refines “standard” HL7 messages to moving lab results from reference labs to physician offices. Like IHE, the ELINCS profile constrains the...
(European List of Notified Chemical Substances) - PBT (Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic)
- C&L (Classification and Labelling)
- HPVCs (High Production Volume Chemicals) and LPVCs (Low Production Volume Chemicals)
- IUCLIDIUCLIDIUCLID is a software application to capture, store, maintain and exchange data on intrinsic and hazard properties of chemical substances. Distributed free of charge, the software is especially useful to chemical industry companies and to government authorities...
Chemical Data Sheets - Priority Lists, Risk AssessmentRisk assessmentRisk assessment is a step in a risk management procedure. Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat...
process and tracking system