The following information was recently received from Philip H. Howard, Director of the Environmental Science Center at Syracuse Research Corporation, Syracuse NY. He writes:
The Environmental Fate Data Bases (EFDB) are now available for free at http://esc.syrres.com/efdb.htm thanks to support from U.S. EPA, Procter & Gamble, and Du Pont. These online databases identify or provide all of the information necessary for assessing human or environmental exposure to chemicals from occupational and consumer use, environmental contamination, and food consumption. This is a excellent way to identify physical properties (water solubility, vp, log P, pKa, Henry's law constants, etc.), degradation or transport information, and ambient and effluent monitoring data. EFDB is comprised of several interrelated files — DATALOG, BIOLOG, CHEMFATE and BIODEG and was developed under the sponsorship of the EPA since 1979.
DATALOG is a bibliographic file that contains 18 types of environmental fate data, including information about physical properties, environmental degradation, transport processes and monitoring. The file is indexed by CAS Registry Numbers and contains over 350,000 records on over 16,000 chemicals.
BIOLOG provides sources of microbial toxicity and data concerning biodegradation. It contains 60,000 records on 7,600 chemicals.
CHEMFATE contains 23 data categories relating to commercially important chemical compounds, including information on environmental fate, chemical and physical properties, and monitoring data. Actual experimental values are abstracted and retained in the file. CHEMFATE contains 17,214 records on 1,728 chemicals.
BIODEG contains experimental values derived from biodegradation studies and includes evaluation codes that can be used for predicting biodegradability. This file contains actual experimental results for approximately 1,000 chemicals.
We look forward to any comments or suggestions from users.
| Philip H. Howard, Ph.D. Director Environmental Science Center Syracuse Research Corporation 6225 Running Ridge Rd. North Syracuse, NY 13212 | Phone: 315-452-8417 Fax: 315-452-8440 Email: howardp@syrres.com Website http://esc.syrres.com/ |