NATIONAL PROFILE on Chemicals Management - UNITAR

8 2 Procedures for the collection anddissemination of data● National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS)The National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) publishes the following informationthrough the Internet.- Japanese translations of International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) documentsJapanese translations (abridged) of Environmental Health Criteria (EHC)Japanese translations (complete and abridged) of Concise International ChemicalAssessment Documents (CICAD)Japanese translations of International Chemical Safety Cards (ICSC)- Information related to the management of health hazards (information regarding themanagement of health hazards, case examples of accidents caused by chemical substances,information regarding chemical disasters and chemical terror, etc.)- Laws regarding chemical substances- Global Information Network on Chemicals (GINC) Homepage- Chemical Substances Toxicity Database covering the reports of existing chemicalsubstances toxicity tests conducted in Japan, including the tests for the OECD’s HPV (HighProduction Volume) Project.● National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE)- The safety evaluations of existing chemical substances undertaken by the Ministry ofEconomy, Trade and Industry (METI) as part of the Law Concerning the Evaluation ofChemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture etc. of Chemical Substances,after discussion by the Review Committee of Chemical Substances Council, the results ofevaluation of chemical substances once published are updated on the homepage of theChemical Management Centre, NITE as Safety Evaluation Data Regarding ExistingChemical Substances.- The Chemical Substances Safety (Hazard) Sheets discussed and compiled for each chemicalsubstance by the Subcommittee for Safety Assessment and Management underManagement Committee/Review Committee of Chemical Substances Council had beenupdated and published. However, from FY2002 these sheets have developed into evenmore detailed Hazard Evaluation Reports that are published accordingly. Also the result ofrisk assessments which are conducted based on these reports are published as Initial RiskAssessment Reports.● Chemicals Evaluation and Research InstituteThe Chemicals Evaluation and Research Institute publishes the following databasesthrough the Internet.- Safety evaluation data- Safety evaluation sheets- Biodegradability estimation system● National Institute for Environmental StudiesNational Institute for Environmental Studies publishes the following databases through theInternet.- Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Database- Estrogen Activity by Chemical Sabstances Database- Chemical Substances Database (WebKis-Plus)57