General Chemical Hazards Hazard Identification

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization	Animal Feed Impact on Food Safety Report of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Animal Feed Impact on Food Safety which was held at FAO Headquarters in Rome from 8 to 12 October 2007. The meeting concluded that ensuring safe feed is an important component of efforts to reduce and prevent food safety hazards and indicated several potential measures to ensure safe feed. Agenda of the meeting, list of participants, experts' resumes and list of documents are included as appendices. The report is being translated in French and Spanish. Printed copies may be requested from: Daniela.Battaglia@fao.org. (more) Publication Year: 2008	Feb 26, 2008
	National Center for Computational Toxicology, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency	Bibliographic Information on EPA's Computational Toxicology Research Programs 2000-2004 Bibliography of publications related to EPA's computational toxicology research. Categories of publications include "Improve Linkages in the Source-to-Outcome Paradigm," "Provide Predictive Models for Hazard Identification," and "Enhance Quantitative Risk Assessment". (more) Deadline: Friday, February 17, 2006	Feb 17, 2006
	Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency	Chemicals in the Environment: OPPT Chemical Fact Sheets These fact sheets for selected environmental chemicals describe exposure routes, production and consumption of products, effects of exposure (including dose-response information, toxicity, and carcinogenicity), regulation information, contact information, and more. (more)	Sep 3, 2002
	LHASA Limited, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds	DEREK For Windows Knowledge base expert system that can be used to predict toxicological hazards based on analysis of chemical structure. Includes information on structure-toxicity relationships and provides supporting examples and literature references. (more)	Jan 22, 2003
	Eastern Research Group, Inc.	Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) for the 21st Century - Food Processing Report of a study on food safety problems and controls, consisting of a literature review and expert elicitation. Appendices include "Annotated Bibliography on Food Safety Problems and Recommended Preventive Controls," "Definitions of Food Safety Problems," "Examples of Preventive Controls and/or Corrective Actions for the Top Ten Food Safety Problems," "Exploratory Factor Analysis," and "Comparison of Food GMPs to Quality Systems and Other GMPs". (more) Publication Date: Monday, August 9, 2004	Aug 13, 2004
	Barlow, S.M., et al.	Hazard Identification by Methods of Animal-Based Toxicology This paper discusses animal-based methods in toxicology and their contributions to hazard identification of chemical hazards in food. It discusses this topic as applied to the design of safety testing programs, the appropriateness of presently available toxicity testing methodologies for detecting chemical hazards in foods, and other issues. Purchase or subscription is required to access the full-text. (more) Publication Month: February 2002	Jul 23, 2002
	National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency	Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Database of chronic non-cancer and cancer health hazard information for over 500 substances. Includes dose-response data. (more)	Aug 31, 2001
	Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment /Concurrent Technologies Corporation	International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER) This database provides access to human health risk values of over 500 chemicals compiled from several international health organizations and independent groups. This database is now also available on the National Library of Medicine's TOXNET compilation of databases located at http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov. (more)	Aug 31, 2001
	Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Meat and Poultry Hazards and Controls Guide Guidance for FSIS personnel for use in verification of an establishment's food safety system. Includes information on process steps by process category, verification questions, and common hazards and controls. (more) Deadline: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Publication Month: September 2005	Nov 15, 2005
	National Toxicology Program, National Institutes of Health	NTP Reports This site gives access to many of the NTP Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Reports and NTP Toxicity Reports. Many abstracts and full text reports are available for free. Hard copies of some reports may be ordered for a charge. Report titles may be browsed by number or found by full text search. (more)	Aug 14, 2002

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