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ECOTOX (ECOTOXICOLOGY DATABASE): AN ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Citation:
Kinziger, B. P., C L. Russom, A W. Jarvinen, G. Bianchi, D. Bremer, J. Dietzman, G. D. Grunwald, B. Holecek, C. Kowalczak, D. Peterson, A. Pilli, C. N. Podeszwa, A. L. Puglisi, S. N. Risdal, AND G. Bianchi. ECOTOX (ECOTOXICOLOGY DATABASE): AN ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. Presented at 21st SETAC Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 12-16, 2000.
Description:
The ECOTOX (ECOTOXicology Database) system developed by the U.S. EPA, National Health and Environmental Effecrs Research Laboratory (NHEERL), Mid-Continent Ecology Division in Duluth, MN, (MED-Duluth), provides a web browser search interface for locating aquatic and terrestrial toxicity effects information. An upcoming addition of the ECOTOX suite of databases is the TOXRES database, which is a source for locating single chemical toxicity/tissue reside data for aquatic organisms. The ECOTOX database also contains data subsets of the USEPA's Water Quality Criteria Documents and the publications used by the USEPA in establishing the Ecological Soil Screening Levels. This database is useful in developing consistent ecosystem management decisions, and provides a means to cost-effectively collect standardized and critically needed effects data for a wide variety of ecological risk assessments. In support of the ECOTOX database, aquatic and terrestrial environmental toxicology literature is acquired and relevant data on single chemical exposures are abstracted into the database. Users may conduct searches by specifying chemical, species, publication year, recent updates to the database, and/or test variable information such as calculated endpoints, observed effect responses, media type and study location. The aquatic and terrestrial components of ECOTOX are currently available on the worldwide web. The TOXRES component is scheduled for release by the end of the year 2000. ECOTOX contains more than 254,000 individual test records for over 9,000 chemicals and 4,900 organisms. The data have been abstracted from over 15,600 publications. The web-version of ECOTOX is open to the public and may be accessed through a web browser at the address http://www.epa.gov/ecotox/.