Rapid screening of substances of lower ecological concern: appendix A

Appendix A: number of substances flagged by each mechanical filter, and resulting path

Exposure - quantities, releases and industrial information

Path - substance identified as requiring further assessment

Mechanical filters Number of substances
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) High Production Volume (HPV) 28
ICCA HPV 1
United States (US) HPV 14
US EXTENDED HPV 3
Japan HPV 4
Australia HPV 0

Path - substance further evaluated at the manual process stage

Mechanical filters Number of substances
Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA) Pilot Project [Canada (CA)] 3
CEPA Section 71 Notices (CA) 9
Categorization Industry Submission (CA) 40
Toxic Substances Control Act - Inventory Update Rule (US) 158
Toxic Substances Control Act - 12(b) Export Notification (US) 1
Chemical Industries Association List (UK) 8
Research Institute for Fragrance Materials 0
SPIN database (Scandinavian countries) 273
KEMI Index - surface water; air; soil; STP (SE) 11; 13; 21; 42
National Pollutant Release Inventory (CA) 0
Toxics Release Inventory (US) 5
National Pollutant Inventory (Australia) 0
Pollutant Release & Transfer Register (Japan) 0

Hazardous substances lists or substance profiles

Path - substance identified as requiring further assessment
Mechanical filters Number of substances
Great Lakes binational toxics list (CA/US) 0
Prior informed consent (PIC) list [United Nations (UN)] 0
Path - substance further evaluated at the manual process stage
Mechanical filters Number of substances
CEPA section 200 environmental emergencies list (CA) 1
Second priority substances list (PSL2) nomination dossiers (CA) 1
Forest products Industry list (CA) 14
Accelerated reduction and elimination of toxics (ARET) List (CA) 1
Great Lakes  211 air toxics (CA/US) 2
National Air Pollution Surveillance (NAPS) (CA) 0
Environmental technology centre (ETC) air monitoring (CA) 1
Pest Control Products Act registered active ingredients (CA) 3
Banned or severely restricted pesticides (US) 1
Persistent bioaccumulative toxic (PBT) List (US) 0
Air toxics / hot spots chemicals (California) 3
Clean Water Act priority pollutants (US) 2
Superfund site chemicals (US) 11
Hazardous constituents under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) (US) 7
Nordic council list of chemicals hazardous to environment [European Union (EU)] 21
Oslo and Paris convention (OSPAR) list (EU) 5
United Nations/Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization (UNEP/FAO/WHO) inchem pesticide classification (UN) 2
Priority substances list (EU) 0
Toxic chemicals list (China) 1
Camford product information profiles (CA) 0
Biological use authorization (BUA) reports [Denmark (DE)] 2
UNEP environmental health criteria (EHC) (UN) 0
Risk assessment information system (RAIS) tox profile (US) 0
Toxic Substances Control Act test submissions (TSCATS) (US) 7
Right-to know fact sheets (New Jersey) 20

Miscellaneous properties and hazard databases

Path - substance further evaluated at manual process, if flagged by >1 information source
Mechanical filters Number of substances
Hazardous substances data bank (HSDB) record (US) 28
National toxicology program (NTP) reports / studies (US) 5
International uniform chemical information database (IUCLID) (EU) 1
Aquatic information retrieval (AQUIRE) (US) 37
Terrestrial wildlife toxicity database (TERRETOX) (US) 13
Terrestrial plants toxicity database (PHYTOTOX) (US) 2
ChemFate - Syracuse Research Corporation (US) 7
Datalog - Syracuse Research Corporation (US) 33
Chemical evaluation search and retrieval system (CESARS) - Ontario Database (CA/US) 8

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