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AQUIRE--AQUATIC TOXICITY INFORMATION RETRIEVAL DATA BASE (MAGNETIC TAPE)
Citation:
AQUIRE--AQUATIC TOXICITY INFORMATION RETRIEVAL DATA BASE (MAGNETIC TAPE). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/8-89/047.
Description:
The AQUlRE -- Aquatic Toxicity Information Retrieval -- data base was established in 1981 by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances. AQUlRE continues to be updated and maintained atthe U.S. EPA Environmental Research Laboratory - Duluth. The purpose of AQUlRE is to provide scientists and managers quick access to a comprehensive, systematic, computerized compilation of aquatic toxicity data. Scientific papers published both nationally and internationally on the toxicity of chemicals to aquatic organisms and plants are collected and reviewed for AQUlRE. Independently compiled data files that meet AQUlRE parameter and quality assurance criteria are also included. Selected toxicity test results and related testing information for any individual chemical from laboratory and field aquatic toxicity tests are extracted and added to AQUlRE. Acute, sublethal and bioconcen-tration effects are included for tests with freshwater and marine organisms. The total number of data records in AQUlRE now equals 104,500. This includes data from 6000 references, for 5200 chemicals and 2400 test species. A major data file, Acute Toxicity of Organic Chemicals (ATOC), has been incorporated into AQUlRE. The ATOC file contains laboratory acute test data on 525 organic chemicals using juvenile fathead minnows. The complete data file can be accessed by requesting review code 5 as a search parameter.