TSCATS is a bibliographic data base that indexes unpublished experimental studies submitted by the chemical industry to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the regulatory requirements of the Toxic Substances Control Act. These studies report on health and environmental effects, physical/chemical properties, environmental fate, and industrial monitoring data.

TSCATS was developed in the early 1980s under the sponsorship of the EPA in order to organize studies submitted under the following sections of TSCA:

• Section (8d) - Studies in the possession of the chemical industry that are submitted to fulfill the information collection requirements of TSCA initiated either by the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee or by EPA in support of a test rule.
   
• Section 4 - Studies conducted by chemical manufacturers on "existing chemicals" (those listed on the TSCA inventory) as required by EPA under a Test Rule.
   
• Section (8e) - Health effects studies conducted by industry, the results of which indicate that a chemical may have adverse effects.
   
• FYI - Studies that industry has conducted and that are submitted to EPA on a voluntary bases to further the understanding of the potential effects and properties of the test substance.

Many of these studies represent state-of-the-science bioassays on the chronic toxicity, oncogenicity and reproductive effects of chemicals to which the public has potential exposure. In addition, since many studies conducted by industry are not published, data in TSCATS may represent the only sources of information on some chemicals. The studies are assigned controlled terms that indicate the area of study (e.g. health effects, environmental effects, environmental fate), the type of study (e.g. acute, chronic, reproductive, etc.), some experimental design features (e.g. species tested, route of administration, etc.), and whether the test material was a single chemical or a chemical mixture. Abstracts are available for some of the studies.

TSCATS can be searched in a variety of ways to assist in identifying specific data of interest. This includes:

• CAS No. - Entry of the CAS No. in the search screen will retrieve all references to that chemical.
   
• Chemical Name - Entry of a chemical name or name fragment in the search screen will retrieve all references associated with that name or fragment
   
• Controlled Terms- Entry of controlled terms results in the limitation of the output to specific types of studies, for example health effects only. This can be combined with chemical identity to narrow the search.
   
• TSCA Section - Entry of TSCA Section will result in limiting of the output to studies submitted under that specific Section of TSCA. This can be combined with chemical identity and controlled terms to further narrow the search.

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