title: Evaluation of an information retrieval system for assessment of toxicological effects of chemicals on fish, wildlife, and ecosystem components.
abstract: A user-oriented information retrieval system is needed for assessment of materials hazardous to fish, wildlife, food chain organisms, and other organisms essential to the maintenance to ecosystem processes and functions. Critical evaluation of data also requires rigorous documentation of test conditions, precision of methods used, and the sensitivity of the test organism. Particular emphasis of the evaluation was in developing practical criteria that aid in the use and interpretation of data with respect to need for further testing in a scoring exercise performed for the Toxic Substances Control Act Interagency Testing Committee. Recommendations are made for the integration of information on physical and chemical properties, health effects, ecotoxicology, and environmental concentration or exposure level.
mesh_terms: D000828:Animal Population Groups; D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D004463:Ecology; D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D005399:Fishes; D007256:Information Systems; D014116:Toxicology
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants