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MSDS Material Safety Data Sheets A Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) is designed to provide both workers and emergency personnel with the proper procedures for handling or working with a particular substance. MSDS's include information such as physical data (melting point, boiling point, flash point etc.), toxicity, health effects, first aid, reactivity, storage, disposal, protective equipment, and spill/leak procedures. These are of particular use if a spill or other accident occurs. Carcinogen IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) Monographs Programme on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans The IARC Monographs series publishes authoritative independent assessments by international experts of the carcinogenic risks posed to humans by a variety of agents, mixtures and exposures. Since its inception in 1972, the series has reviewed more than 880 agents, and IARC Monographs have become well-known for their thoroughness, accuracy and integrity. To aid in the selection of future topics, the programme also monitors long-term carcinogenicity testing underway in various laboratories throughout the world and publishes the results on this website as a Directory of Agents Being Tested for Carcinogenicity. The Monographs are invaluable sources of information both for researchers and for national and international authorities. HazDat Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Regisry`s Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database HazDat, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database, is the scientific and administrative database developed to provide access to information on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites or from emergency events and on the effects of hazardous substances on the health of human populations. The following information is included in HazDat: site characteristics, activities and site events, contaminants found, contaminant media and maximum concentration levels, impact on population, community health concerns, ATSDR public health threat categorization, ATSDR recommendations, environmental fate of hazardous substances, exposure routes, and physical hazards at the site/event. In addition, HazDat contains substance-specific information such as the ATSDR Priority List of Hazardous Substances, health effects by route and duration of exposure, metabolites, interactions of substances, susceptible populations, and biomarkers of exposure and effects. HazDat also contains data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS) database, including site CERCLIS number, site description, latitude/longitude, operable units, and additional site information. Test Methods US Environmental Protection Agency Test Method Index To respond to frequent requests for agency test methods, Library staff developed a methods index as a reference tool to help locate copies. Confirming that no one volume containing all agency methods and no comprehensive list of them existed, in 1988 the EPA Region 1 Library produced a printed report: Index to EPA Test Methods published as EPA 901/3-88-001. Since 1988, the Index has been updated periodically to reflect new procedures and to remove superseded or revoked methods. It includes only EPA methods and its primary goal is to identify a source and vendor from which the actual method can be obtained, either free or for a fee. In the mid 1990's, electronic versions of the methods began to appear, primarily on bulletin board systems (BBS) or on floppy disks. EPA air methods have been available for some time via a dial-up BBS and now on a web site; EPA has recently issued two compendium of methods for waste and water methods on CD ROM (all referenced in Sources section). A few of the methods in this Index are available on the Internet and a link appears in the Sources list to take you directly to them if you have concurrent Internet browser access.