OECD CHEMICAL DATABASE UPGRADED
December 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL database that offers plastics companies detailed information on polymers and polymer additives has been upgraded to allow researches into certain properties or effects, such as physical chemical properties, environmental behaviour, ecotoxicity and toxicity. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development's (OECD) eChemPortal has until now largely restricted users to base data searches on chemical names.
Governments have used its information for hazard identification and devising chemical policies, with the system ...
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