Great Lakes Toxicology Ecology Division Databases

ASTER
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(ASsessment Tools for the Evaluation of Risk) structure-activity based expert system that provides information on toxic effects, physical/chemical properties, and fate and exposure models. ASTER is an integration of the ECOTOX (ECOTOXicology) toxic effects database and the QSAR (Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships) system, a structure activity based expert system.
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Fathead Minnow
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Compilation of results from a series of industrial organic compounds using the fathead minnow conducted at the Mid-Continent Ecology Division to support development of an expert system to predict the acute mode of toxic action from chemical structure.
Toxicity/Residue
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Data results of toxicity / tissue residue data for aquatic organisms exposed to single chemicals.
PCBRes
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U.S. EPA PCB Residue Effects (PCBRes) Database correlating PCB and dioxin-like compound residues with toxic effects on fish, birds and mammal species.
BSAF Data Set
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U.S. EPA Biota-Sediment Accumulation Factors (BSAFs) dataset from 20 locations for nonionic organic chemicals.

Data Stewards

The available data sets, available data, institution address and contacts are listed below:

NOTE: The number of records and reference IDs displayed below reflect the contents of each dataset at the time it was imported to Ecotox. The values listed here may not match current Ecotox search results.

Institution Contact Information Data Summary and Reference Numbers

EPA: Fathead Minnow Acute Toxicity Database (MED-Duluth)

To obtain hard copies of the University of Wisconsin-Superior (UWS) volumes contact:

University of Wisconsin/ Lake Superior Research Institute
PO Box 2000
Superior, WI 54880
Contact: Matt TenEyck
E-mail: MTenEyck@uwsuper.edu
Phone: 715-394-8160

For technical information on the database contact:

U.S. EPA/ORD/CCTE/GLTED
Contact: Jennifer Olker
E-mail: olker.jennifer@epa.gov

5 references (#3217, 12447, 12448, 12858, 12859)

1133 aquatic records

French (OECD-IRCHA)

Ecotoxicology Department, INERIS
Rue Lavoisier, B.P. 1
F-91710 Vert Le Petit
France
http://www.ineris.fr/ Exit
Contact: Dr. Roger Cabridenc
Phone: 33-1-45960956; Fax: 33-1-45960957

13 references (#20, 3397, 3516, 3517, 3518, 3519, 3520, 3521, 5161, 6771, 9170, 10724, 15300)

256 aquatic records

German (OECD)

Umweltbundesamt, Federal Environmental Agency Dienstgebaude Berlin-Mitte
Mauerstrabe 45-52
0-1080 Berlin Germany
Wörlitzer Platz 1
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Germany
Tel: +49-340-2103-0
Fax: +49-340-2103-2285
Email: Gerlinde.knetsch@uba.de
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de Exit

Dieter Schudoma
German Environment Agency
Section IV 2.4: Water-hazardous substances/ Ecotoxicology laboratory
Schichauweg 58,
12307 Berlin
Tel: (+49-30) 8903 4225
Fax: (+49-30) 8903 4233
Email: dieter.schudoma@uba.de

186 references

10494 aquatic records

1873 terrestrial records

Dutch (OECD)

National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM/ACT)
PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven
The Netherlands
http://www.rivm.nl/en/ Exit
Contact: Dr. Hans Canton
E-mail: ecocr@sb615.rivm.nl

17 references (#5180, 5331, 5333, 5336, 5337, 5356, 5367, 5370, 5374, 5375, 5378, 5390, 5400, 5411, 5414, 11039, 11044)

1992 aquatic records

Russia

Borok Institute, Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Academy of Sciences
152742 Borok, Nekouz, Yaroslavsky Region
Rusian Republic
http://www.ibiw.ru/ Exit
Contact: Victor Komov
E-mail: vkomov@ibiw.yaroslavl.su

55 references

257 aquatic records

EPA: Office of Pesticide Programs Database (OPP)

(Pesticide Ecotoxicity Database -formerly Ecological Effects Database)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Pesticide Programs
Environmental Fate and Effects Division,
Environmental Information and Support Branch
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20460
https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-contacts/office-pesticide-programs-contacts-division-and-topic
Contact: Lee Kyle
E-mail: Kyle.Lee@epa.gov

Reference #344

16,956 aquatic records

17,681 terrestrial records

 

Reference #184644 - Bee Studies

4,225 terrestrial records

USGS:  Acute Toxicity Database

Mayer & Ellersieck, 1986 - commonly referred to as the 'Gold Book')

For data format questions contact:

Columbia Environmental Research Center
U.S. Geological Survey
4200 New Haven Road, Columbia, Missouri 65201
Phone: 573-875-5399
(http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/data/acute/acute.html Exit)
Contact: Linda Sappington
E-mail: linda_sappington@usgs.gov

For data interpretation contact:

Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division
Duluth, Minnesota 55806
Phone: 218-529-5011
Contact: Dale Hoff
E-mail: hoff.dale@epa.gov

1 reference (#6797)

8761 aquatic records

Other Databases

Envirofacts Warehouse
Retrieve environmental information from EPA databases on Air, Toxics, Facility Information, Grants/Funding, Hazardous Waste, Superfund, Toxic Releases, and Water.
EcoSSL
U.S. EPA Ecological Soil Screening Level guidance for mammals, birds, soil invertebrates and plants.
IRIS - Integrated Risk Information System
Human health effects database.
Pesticide Ecotoxicity Database, Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP)
U.S. EPA database containing environmental endpoints for over 13,000 toxicity studies for over 630 pesticides. The database is comprised of studies submitted by pesticide manufacturers. The OPP database was last updated in ECOTOX in 2021.
Office of Water
Links to Water Quality Criteria and other publications and compilations.
ATSDR - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Exit
Human health toxicity database.
National Library of Medicine - TOXNET Exit
Search Toxline, MEDLINE and other medical literature databases.
Toxic Substance Control Act Test Submission (TSCATS) Database Exit
Central system for collection, maintenance, and dissemination of information on unpublished technical reports submitted by industry to the U.S. EPA under the Toxic Substances Contract Act (TSCA).
Wildlife Toxicology Web Portal Exit
The portal provides access to over 25 wildlife toxicology sites and databases from government, academia and non-profit organizations that deal with contaminant monitoring, mortality incidents, acute and chronic toxicity data, accumulation factors, toxicological reference values, interspecies correlations, and more general wildlife toxicology literature.
Contaminant Exposure and Effects - Terrestrial Vertebrate Database Exit
Contaminant exposure and effects for terrestrial vertebrates residing on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
National Parks Service Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia Exit
Summarizes information related to fish, wildlife, invertebrates, and other non-human living resources.
OECD/UNEP Chemical Screened Information Dataset (SIDS) Exit
for high volume chemicals. Physical/chemical information, human and ecological toxicity summaries.
Reptile and Amphibian Toxicity Literature (RATL) (PDF) 494 pp, 3560 K, About PDF) Exit
Canadian Wildlife Service database capturing amphibian and reptile toxicity data published in the year 2000.
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Pesticide Database Exit
Contains pesticide toxicity and regulatory information.
eChemPortal Exit
eChemPortal provides free public access to information on properties of chemicals.