This tool is intended to aid individuals interested in learning more about chemicals that are manufactured or imported into the United States. Health and safety information on these chemicals, primarily in the form of paper documents, are routinely submitted by industry (manufacturers or importers of chemicals) to EPA under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). EPA is in the process of converting these documents into electronic form and making non-confidential versions of these documents accessible through this tool. The tool enables users to conduct both full text and metadata searches of these documents, and presents these as .pdf for viewing or downloading. The tool also queries existing EPA legacy database sources of chemical information and presents these data in a consistent format.
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Chemical Hazard Information Profiles (TRI-CHIP) dataset contains hazard information about the chemicals reported in TRI. Users can use this XML-format dataset to create their own databases and hazard analyses of TRI chemicals. The hazard information is compiled from a series of authoritative sources including the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). The dataset is provided as a downloadable .zip file that when extracted provides XML files and schemas for the hazard information tables.