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The following is a list of available data sources which the chemical manufacturer, importer, distributor, or employer may wish to consult to evaluate the hazards of chemicals they produce or import:

- Any information in their own company files, such as toxicity testing
 results or illness experience of company employees.
- Any information obtained from the supplier of the chemical, such as
 material safety data sheets or product safety bulletins.
- Any pertinent information obtained from the following source list
 (latest editions should be used):

Condensed Chemical Dictionary

 Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 135 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10020.

The Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals and Drugs Merck and Company,
Inc., 126 E. Lincoln Ave., Rahway, NJ 07065.

IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to
Man

 Geneva: World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on
Cancer, 1972 - Present. (Multivolume work). Summaries are available in
supplement volumes. 49 Sheridan Street, Albany, NY 12210.

Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, by F.A. Patty

 John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY (Multivolume work).

Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products

 Gleason, Gosselin, and Hodge.

Casarett and Doull's Toxicology; The Basic Science of Poisons

 Doull, Klaassen, and Amdur, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., New York,
NY.

Industrial Toxicology, by Alice Hamilton and Harriet L. Hardy

 Publishing Sciences Group, Inc., Acton, MA.

Toxicology of the Eye, by W. Morton Grant

 Charles C. Thomas, 301-327 East Lawrence Avenue, Springfield, IL.

Recognition of Health Hazards in Industry

 William A. Burgess, John Wiley and Sons, 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY
10158.

Chemical Hazards of the Workplace

 Nick H. Proctor and James P. Hughes, J.P. Lipincott Company, 6
Winchester Terrace, New York, NY 10022.

Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

 Chemical Rubber Company, 18901 Cranwood Parkway, Cleveland, OH 44128.

Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents in the
Work Environment and Biological Exposure Indices with Intended Changes

 American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), 6500
Glenway Avenue, Bldg. D-5, Cincinnati, OH 45211.

 Information on the physical hazards of chemicals may be found in
publications of the National Fire Protection Association, Boston, MA.

 Note: The following documents may be purchased from the Superintendent
of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.

Occupational Health Guidelines

 NIOSH/OSHA (NIOSH Pub. No. 81-123).

NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards

 NIOSH Pub. No. 90-117.

Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances

 (Latest edition)

Miscellaneous Documents published by the National Institute for
 Occupational Safety and Health:
 Criteria documents.
 Special Hazard Reviews.
 Occupational Hazard Assessments.
 Current Intelligence Bulletins.

OSHA's General Industry Standards (29 CFR Part 1910)

NTP Annual Report on Carcinogens and Summary of the Annual Report on Carcinogens.

National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161; (703) 487-4650.

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 Bibliographic data bases service provider  |    File name
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Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS),      | Biosis Previews
 1200 Route 7, Latham, NY 12110.            |
                                            | CA Search
                                            | Medlars
                                            | NTIS
                                            | Hazardline
                                            | American Chemical
                                            |  Society
                                            | Journal
                                            | Excerpta Medica
                                            | IRCS Medical Science
                                            |   Journal
                                            | Pre-Med
                                            | Intl Pharmaceutical
                                            |   Abstracts
                                            | Paper Chem
Lockheed-DIALOG Information Service, Inc.,   | Biosis Prev. Files
 3460 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304. |
                                            | CA Search Files
                                            | CAB Abstracts
                                            | Chemical Exposure
                                            | Chemname
                                            | Chemsis Files
                                            | Chemzero
                                            | Embase Files
                                            | Environmental
                                            |   Bibliographies
                                            | Enviroline
                                            | Federal Research in
                                            |   Progress
                                            | IRL Life Science
                                            |   Collection
                                            | NTIS
                                            | Occupational Safety
                                            |   and Health (NIOSH)
                                            | Paper Chem
SDC-ORBIT, SDC Information Service,          | CAS Files
 2500 Colorado Avenue,                      |
 Santa Monica, CA 90406.                    |
                                            | Chemdex, 2, 3
                                            | NTIS
National Library of Medicine.................| Hazardous Substances
                                            |   Data Bank (NSDB)
Department of Health and Human Services,     | Medline Files
 Public Health Service,                     |
 National Institutes of Health,             |
 Bethesda, MD 20209.                        |
                                            | Toxline Files
                                            | Cancerlit
                                            | RTECS
                                            | Chemline
Pergamon International Information Corp.,    | Laboratory Hazard
 1340 Old Chain Bridge R., McLean, VA 22101 |   Bulletin
Questel, Inc., 1625 Eye Street, NW,          | CIS/ILO
 Suite 818, Washington, DC 20006.           | Cancernet
                                            |
Chemical Information System ICI (ICIS),      | Structure and
 Bureau of National Affairs,                |   Nomenclature
 1133 15th Street, NW, Suite 300,           |   Search System
 Washington, DC 20005.                      |    (SANSS)
                                            | Acute Toxicity
                                            |    (RTECS)
                                            | Clinical Toxicology
                                            |   of Commercial
                                            |   Products
                                            | Oil and Hazardous
                                            |   Materials
                                            |   Technical
                                            |   Assistance Data
                                            |   System
                                            | CCRIS
                                            | CESARS
Occupational Health Services,                |
 400 Plaza Drive, Secaucus, NJ 07094........| MSDS
                                            | Hazardline
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