title: Health and safety information for regulatory purposes--an industrial point of view.
abstract: This article describes how one company (The Dow Chemical Company) is managing the issue of increasing demands by regulatory agencies for health and environmental information. Described are: an interdisciplinary organization linked by a resource and communication network; methods of evaluating information requests and establishing priorities for response; and problems in communicating with the regulators. The need for a responsive technical dialogue between government and industry is stressed.
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D006077:Government Agencies; D006285:Health Planning; D007221:Industry; D007256:Information Systems; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008499:Medical Records; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000379:methods