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WELCOME TO THE WWW DIRECTORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES
ORGANISATIONS
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Advisory
Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) |
| Web address: |
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~doe/ |
| Information: |
Newsletters
of ACRE and ACGM (Advisory Committee on Genetic
Modification) - comprehensive information on the
two departments and links to other biotechnology
sites. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
American
Institute of Chemical Engineers |
| Web address: |
http://www.che.ufl.edu/aiche/ |
| Information: |
Provides
comprehensive information about the institute such
as its mission and objectives, contacts,
programmes and activities and publications. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Carcinogenicity
Potency Database Project |
| Web address: |
http://potency.berkeley.edu/cpdb.html |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the project and access to the
database on carcinogenicity of substances. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Danish
National Environment Research Institute |
| Web address: |
http://www.fsk.dk/dgri/1996/dmu.html |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the research activities and
projects of the Institute |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Environmental
Hazard Assessment Program, Medical University of
South Carolina |
| Web address: |
http://www.ehap.musc.edu/ehapmain.html |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the University's program to address
risk communication, risk assessment and risk
management in the field of human health
protection. Provides a bridge to other useful
links. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
European
Chemical Bureau (JRC) |
| Web address: |
http://www.ei.jrc.it/ecb/ |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the facilities and activities of
the Bureau, including the work on classification
and labelling, the IUCLID, New Chemicals and
EINECS databases, HEDSET, and a list of selected
references. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
European
Federation Biotechnology Working Party - Safety in
Biotechnology |
| Web address: |
http://www.boku.ac.at/iam/efb/efb_wp.htm |
| Information: |
The site
provides information on the working party,
members, philosophy and activities of the
organisation, a list of publications and links to
other biosafety sites. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Fraunhofer
Gesellschaft |
| Web address: |
http://www.fhg.de/german/index.html |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the activities of the various
research institutes such as the
Fraunhofer-Institut für Umweltchemie und Ökotoxikologie
(IUCT), lists of contacts, publications, press
releases and a search facility for the site. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
GREENPEACE
International |
| Web address: |
http://www.greenpeace.org/ |
| Information: |
Site of
GREENPEACE international provides information on
all their activities. Search on risk assessment
produces many interesting documents demonstrating
the views of GREENPEACE in public risk issues. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Institute of
Food Science and Technology |
| Web address: |
http://www.easynet.co.uk/ifst/ |
| Information: |
Provides
detailed information on food science and
technology and the work of the institute and
discussion of current "hot topics" such
as BSE. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Institution
of Chemical Engineers |
| Web address: |
http://icheme.chemeng.ed.ac.uk/ |
| Information: |
Provides
general information about the Institution, the
list of publications is particularly useful. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
International
Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (WHO) |
| Web address: |
http://www.iarc.fr/ |
| Information: |
Information
on the organisation, research programmes, press
releases and lists of publications in including
the monograph evaluations. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
International
Agency for Research on Cancer and National
Toxicology Programme Carcinogen List |
| Web address: |
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~paulr/cancer.html |
| Information: |
This list
includes three categories of substances and
processes regarded as carcinogenic, primarily by
the International Agency for Research on Cancer of
the World Health Organisation (IARC) and, to a
lesser extent, the US Government's Annual Report
on Carcinogens from the National Toxicology
Program (NTP). |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
International
Programme on Chemical Safety |
| Web address: |
http://www.who.ch/programmes/WHOProgrammes.html |
| Information: |
Home page of
IPCS - provides information on organisational
structure, programmes and activities, publications
and services. Includes gopher access to some
Environmental Health Criteria documents. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
International
Society for Exposure Analysis |
| Web address: |
http://www.isea.rutgers.edu/isea/isea.html |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the Society - membership, journals,
newsletters and conferences. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Joint
Research Centre for the European Commission -
Environment Institute |
| Web address: |
http://www.ei.jrc.it/#EI |
| Information: |
Provides
information on all the activities of the
Institute, including links to the ECB page, and
the Annual Report, Databases and Newsletters. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory - Risk Related
Research |
| Web address: |
http://www.lbl.gov/LBL-Programs/Risk-Research.html |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the research activities of the
laboratory in the field of risk. LBNL
"conducts research to improve the scientific
basis of risk assessment. Research is focused in
several major areas to support these overall
goals: Characterisation of exposures of human
populations to environmental pollutants and
radiation; Development of the technical basis for
setting priorities for research and regulations by
ranking possible hazards for occupational,
residential, and other settings; Mechanisms of
biological damage at the cellular, molecular,
organ and whole organism level, including
development and validation of biomarkers; Effects
of environmental pollution on ecosystems and
ecosystem restoration. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
National Food
Agency of Denmark |
| Web address: |
http://www.fsk.dk/dgri/1996/lst.html |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the work of the Agency - goals,
objectives, responsibilities, etc. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences
Division, Ecological Risk Analysis Tools and
Applications Programme |
| Web address: |
http://www.hsrd.ornl.gov/ecorisk/ecorisk.html |
| Information: |
Contains
information on the work of the programme including
a down-loadable database and reports on chemical
data that can be used to conduct ecological
screening and baseline risk assessments at
hazardous waste sites. The site intends to provide
access to guidance documents for evaluating
ecological risk assessment data, as well as
complete text copies of ecological risk assessment
reports for specific DOE sites in the U.S. Links
to other sites. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
OECD Biotrack
Online |
| Web address: |
http://www.oecd.org/ehs/service.htm |
| Information: |
The programme
aims to produce documents for use by national
authorities for the regulatory assessment of
genetically modified products intended for release
to the environment. This web page describes the
projects and the expert group, lists publications,
provides information on regulatory activities in
member countries and provides excellent links to
other sites. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
OECD
Chemicals Programme |
| Web address: |
http://www.oecd.org/ehs/chem2.htm |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the Chemicals Programme - projects,
publications, activities, links to other sources
of information. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Risk
Assessment and Policy Association |
| Web address: |
http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/rapa.htm |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the Association, its goals and
objectives, publications, conferences and
membership. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
RIVM -
Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and
Environment |
| Web address: |
http://deimos.rivm.nl/ |
| Information: |
Provides
limited information on RIVM and publications as
the site is still being developed. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
SETAC |
| Web address: |
http://www.setac.org/ |
| Information: |
Provides
information on SETAC activities, meetings,
publications, history, and details of Advisory
Groups and projects. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
The Centre
for Environmental Risk Reduction and Pollution
Prevention - University of California, Los Angeles |
| Web address: |
http://cct.seas.ucla.edu/cct.cerrpp.html#Overview |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the activities of the work program
including research into risk reduction strategies,
exposure assessment and risk assessment. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
The National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
| Web address: |
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/Home.html |
| Information: |
Provides
detailed information on the organisation including
research programmes, the National Toxicology
Programme, Environmental Health Perspectives
Journal and library resources. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
The Royal
Society of Chemistry |
| Web address: |
http://www.worldserver.pipex.com/rsc/ |
| Information: |
Provides
excellent information on the Society, including
contacts, activities, products (CD-ROMs,
publications), information and library services
and links to other sites. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
UNEP - Trade
and Environment Monograph Series Science, Risk
Analysis and Environmental Policy Decisions |
| Web address: |
gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/11/ungophers/unep/publications/monographs/mon_05 |
| Information: |
Specific UNEP
site - full text version of monograph - Science -
Risk Analysis and Environmental Policy Decisions.
Interesting comments on environmental risk
assessment. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
UNEP Homepage |
| Web address: |
http://www.unep.ch/ |
| Information: |
Information
on UNEP - conventions, programmes documents.
Search facility - good results with "risk
assessment". Key links - IRPTC and Trade and
the Environment. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
United
Nations Industrial Development Organisation -
Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service |
| Web address: |
http://www.binas.unido.org/binas/ |
| Information: |
The objective
of BINAS is to monitor global developments in
regulatory issues in biotechnology. The site
provides information on regulatory developments,
BINAS projects, publications and conferences and a
list of experts in the biotechnology field who may
be able to assist in the safety assessments of
GMOs. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
US
Environmental Protection Agency |
| Web address: |
http://www.epa.gov/ |
| Information: |
Provides full
details about the various departments working
within the EPA, their work and the projects
carried out. Information is provided on programmes,
initiatives, news, publications, library
resources, data systems and software. Of
particular relevance to risk assessment is the
work of the Centre for Exposure Assessment
Modelling: ftp://ftp.epa.gov/epa_ceam/wwwhtml/ceamhome.htm
which has details of projects, software, etc. and
the National Exposure Research Laboratory: http://www.epa.gov/AthensR/ |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
WHO Division
of Food and Nutrition - Food Safety Unit |
| Web address: |
http://www.who.ch/programmes/WHOProgrammes.html |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the public health issue of food
safety, guidance on the safe preparation of food,
information on the activities of the unit, a
comprehensive list of publications available and
links to other food safety sites. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
World Health
Organization |
| Web address: |
http://www.who.ch |
| Information: |
Provides full
details of all the WHO programmes, including IPCS,
Food and Nutrition (Codex Alimentarius, etc.),
offices, publications, library, etc. |
INFORMATION
NETWORKS
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Belgian
Biosafety Server, Institute of Hygiene and
Epidemiology, Brussels, Belgium |
| Web address: |
http://biosafety.ihe.be/ |
| Information: |
Provides a
wide range of information on activities in the
field of biotechnology, including risk assessment,
both on a national and international level. Lists
publications, experts, legislation and
institutions. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Bioline
Publications |
| Web address: |
http://www.bdt.org.br/bioline/ |
| Information: |
Bioline
Publications is an electronic publishing service,
providing journals, reports, books, technical
documents, conference proceedings and newsletters
in many fields including; biotechnology,
toxicology and environmental sciences. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Cancer
Related Links (Ron Marriage, Madison, Indiana) |
| Web address: |
http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rcancer.html |
| Information: |
Vast amounts
of information and links to government servers,
institutes, educational establishments all cancer
related. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
CEC COM (95)
624 Progress Report on Implementation of the Fifth
Environmental Action Programme (especially chapter
3) |
| Web address: |
http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dg11/env-act5/prog-rep.htm |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the work of the European Commission
in regard to industrial risks (chemicals and
biotechnology) and nuclear safety and radiation
protection in response to the requirements of
Agenda 21. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
CORDIS - EC
R&D Information Service |
| Web address: |
http://www2.cordis.lu/cordis/home.html |
| Information: |
Provides
information on EU Research and Technological
Development programmes and details of how to
access the Cordis database of research projects -
on-line or CD-ROM. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
DG XII
Biotechnology Information |
| Web address: |
http://www.cec.lu/en/comm/dg12/biot1.html |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the work of DG XII in the field of
biotechnology - programmes/activities,
publications, courses, networks. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
DTi Bioguide
- Department of the Environment |
| Web address: |
http://dtiinfo1.dti.gov.uk/bioguide/doe.htm |
| Information: |
Provides
information on the responsibilities of the DoE in
the UK regarding the release and marketing of GMOs
(risk assessments). Legislation, advice, research,
contacts, publications. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
EcoNet's
Toxics, Hazards & Wastes Resources |
| Web address: |
http://www.econet.apc.org/toxic/ |
| Information: |
Provides a
lot of information in the toxicology field by way
of links to other sites, including information
sources on databases, MSDS, and organisations
involved in work on toxic hazards, etc. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Envirolink |
| Web address: |
http://www.envirolink.org/ |
| Information: |
Search for
risk assessment produces interesting results
-Rachel's Hazardous Waste News and Environment and
Health weekly. Predominantly American. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
European
Union and the New Biotechnology: Managing
Environmental Risks |
| Web address: |
http://biosafety.ihe.be/GB/AbouEur2.html |
| Information: |
Describes in
detail the European Union policy and procedures on
the safety assessment of GMOs for contained use
and intentional release into the environment with
specific reference to the two relevant Directives
on GMOs. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
EXtension
TOXicology NETwork |
| Web address: |
http://ace.ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/ghindex.html |
| Information: |
Provides
toxicological information via searchable datasets
including Pesticide Information Profiles,
Toxicological Information Briefs, Fact sheets,
resources, news, newsletters. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Friends of
the Earth UK Chemical Release Inventory |
| Web address: |
http://www.foe.co.uk/cri/ |
| Information: |
Database of
chemical releases for major industrial sites in
England and Wales. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Global
Information Network on Chemicals - Homepage |
| Web address: |
http://www.nihs.go.jp/GINC/ |
| Information: |
From this
homepage you can explore large amounts of useful
information sources provided by both international
organisations and national institutions
collaborating for safe control of chemicals. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
HazDat
Database - ATSDR |
| Web address: |
http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080/hazdat.html#A3.1 |
| Information: |
Searchable
database for information on superfund sites in the
U.S and toxicological information on several
hundred substances. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Medweb |
| Web address: |
http://www.gen.emory.edu/medweb/medweb.toxicology.html |
| Information: |
This site
provides access to a vast amount of information on
human health related subjects such as toxicology,
radiation, biotechnology. Provides comprehensive
listings of web sites and links. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Reporting on
Risk - A Journalist's Handbook on Environmental
Risk Assessment |
| Web address: |
http://www.facsnet.org/report_tools/guides_primers/risk/main.html |
| Information: |
Comprehensive
breakdown of the risk assessment process from the
US angle. Describes the steps in risk assessment
and discusses the roles of risk management and
risk communication. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
RiskWorld |
| Web address: |
http://www.riskworld.com/ |
| Information: |
"An
international World Wide Web publication providing
news and information on the identification,
critical analysis, and management of risks. The
topics covered include risks to human health and
the natural environment, as well as economic,
financial, social, and political risks." This
is a really interesting site containing a vast
amount of information - links to professional
organisations (companies, consultants,
universities), lists of publications, new
software, and much much more! |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
Toxicodynamic
Health and Environmental Risk Assessment Programme
of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Web address: |
http://w3.pnl.gov:2080/health/molbio/thera.html#use |
| Information: |
Page
describing the work and objectives of this
research programme in the US. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
UNEP
Directory of Organisations and Institutes Active
in Environmental Monitoring |
| Web address: |
http://www.gsf.de/UNEP/contents.html |
| Information: |
Provides a
directory of organisations and institutes involved
in environmental monitoring and assessment
throughout the world. Countries are listed A-Z. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
UNEP
International Register of Potentially Toxic
Chemicals (IRPTC) |
| Web address: |
http://www.unep.ch/irptc.html |
| Information: |
The site
provides comprehensive information on the IRPTC;
why it was formed, objectives, activities
including details of the development of data
profiles on chemical substances and the databank -
how to access it, etc. and a list of publications. |
| Name of
site/organisation: |
US Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Science
Corner |
| Web address: |
http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080/cx.html |
| Information: |
"ATSDR
Science Corner" is an HTML (HyperText Markup
Language) document (MENU) developed to search the
Internet for information resources that are free,
in the public domain, and relate to environmental
health issues of concern toATSDR. The primary
focus of "ATSDR Science Corner" is to
find and share global information resources on the
linkage between human exposure to hazardous
chemicals and adverse human health effects. Lots
of information including the Toxfaqs Database
freely accessible on the Internet providing
information on the toxicity and human health
effects of several chemicals in fact sheet format
and a section on risk assessment. |
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