Hazardous Substances Data Bank

HSDB is a toxicology data file on the National Library of Medicine's (NLM)
Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET). It focuses on the toxicology of potentially
hazardous chemicals. It is enhanced with information on human exposure,
industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environmental fate,
regulatory requirements, and related areas. All data are referenced and derived
from a core set of books, government documents, technical reports and selected
primary journal literature. HSDB is peer-reviewed by the Scientific Review
Panel (SRB) a committee of experts in the major subject areas within the data
bank's scope. HSDB is organized into individual chemical records, and contains
over 4500 such records.

Users can search by chemical or other name, chemical name fragment, Chemical
Abstracts Service Registry Number (RN), and/or subject terms. Search results
can easily be viewed, printed or downloaded. Search results are displayed in
relevancy ranked order. Users may select to display exact term matches,
complete records, or any combination of data from the groupings listed in the
keyword section.

Users can easily conduct their HSDB search strategy against other databases:
Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System, Integrated Information
System, and GENE-TOX.