Contaminants of Emerging Concern
Nomination Resources
Provided below are some resources that may be useful when answering nomination questions.
Information about health effects of chemicals
- EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
- EPA Office of Water Health Advisories Documents
- Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS)
- Tolerable Upper Intake Levels (ULs) from the Institute of Medicine
- Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR)
- National Toxicology Program (NTP) Report on Carcinogens (RoC)
- Toxnet/Toxline/HSDB
- Commission of European Communities
- Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) Prop 65
Information sources for releases include:
Information sources for production or use volumes include:
- Toxic Substances Control Act reported under the Chemical Update System/Inventory Update Rule
Information sources for environmental occurrence include:
- Minnesota Department of Agriculture
- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
- USGS National Water Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA)
- USGS National Reconnaissance of Emerging Contaminants (NREC)
- National Contaminant Occurrence Database
- Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Regulation monitoring
