Toxic Free Kids Act

Environmental Health Division

Toxic Free Kids Act
Chemicals of High Concern
January 2011

On this page:
Background
Chemicals of High Concern list
Supporting Information
Questions or Comments

Background

The Toxic Free Kids Act requires that the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), after consultation with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), generate a list of Chemicals of High Concern by July 1, 2010. The chemicals must meet these criteria identified in Minn. Stat. 2009 116.9401:

"Chemical of high concern" means a chemical identified on the basis of credible scientific evidence by a state, federal, or international agency as being known or suspected with a high degree of probability to:

(1) harm the normal development of a fetus or child or cause other developmental toxicity;
(2) cause cancer, genetic damage, or reproductive harm;
(3) disrupt the endocrine or hormone system;
(4) damage the nervous system, immune system, or organs, or cause other systemic toxicity;
(5) be persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic; or
(6) be very persistent and very bioaccumulative

The law also instructs MDH to “consider chemicals listed as a suspected carcinogen, reproductive or developmental toxicant, or as being persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic, or very persistent and very bioaccumulative by a state, federal, or international agency. These agencies may include, but are not limited to, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the Washington Department of Ecology, the United States Department of Health, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the United Nation's World Health Organization, and European Parliament Annex XIV concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals.”

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Chemicals of High Concern list

The Chemicals of High Concern list can be downloaded from the links below. Choose the format that best suits your purposes.
The list content is the same in all four files.

PDF format, sorted by Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) Registry number (PDF: 1003KB/125 pages)

PDF format, sorted alphabetically by chemical name (PDF: 986KB/125 pages)

Microsoft Excel (.xls) format (432 KB)
(Note: If you are importing the Excel file into a database such as Microsoft Access, it is helpful to select the "memo" data type for columns labeled "Chemical Name," "Source(s)" and "Use example(s) or class" to prevent truncation of content in some cells. If you do not have Microsoft Excel installed on your computer, you might need to install a free Excel Viewer from Microsoft to view the list in this format.)

Text - tab delimited (.txt) format (287 KB)
(Note: Content in the columns labeled "Chemical Name," "Source(s)," and "Use example(s) or class" is lengthy for some records. To prevent truncation of content, it is useful to select "memo" or the equivalent when importing this file into a database or spreadsheet.)

Supporting Information

October 2010 updates to the Chemicals of High Concern list (PDF: 266KB/3 pages)
This update concerns designation of some inorganic chemicals as high production volume and some source attributions were corrected. There were no chemicals added or removed during this update.

Acronyms and Abbreviations (PDF: 153KB/2 pages)

Minnesota Chemicals of High Concern List Methodology (PDF: 239KB/28 pages)
Provides information about how chemicals were selected for the Chemicals of High Concern list

Chemicals of High Concern - Frequently Asked Questions

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Questions or Comments

For questions: contact MDH at health.hazard@state.mn.us

For comments: MDH will be accepting written comments on the Chemicals of High Concern list. All substantive comments will be posted on the MDH website on the Toxic Free Kids Act Comments page.

To send comments by e-mail, send to: health.hazard@state.mn.us

To send comments by mail, send to:

Chemicals of High Concern
Minnesota Department of Health
Environmental Health Division
Site Assessment and Consultation Unit
P.O. Box 64975
St. Paul, MN 55164-0975