Chemical Assessment Tools Review Article

I recommend you read “Chemical assessment state of the science: Evaluation of 32 decision-support tools used to screen and prioritize chemicals.”  Nice review of various chemical assessment software packages. Choose tools that will inform risk management decisions – hazard and exposure – and that make sense for your products. These are tools, not answers. While they will improve over time, decision-making will always be values-based judgements.

Gauthier, A. M., Fung, M., Panko, J., Kingsbury, T., Perez, A. L., Hitchcock, K., Ferracini, T., Sahmel, J., Banducci, A., Jacobsen, M., Abelmann, A. and Shay, E. (2015), Chemical assessment state of the science: Evaluation of 32 decision-support tools used to screen and prioritize chemicals. Integr Environ Assess Manag, 11: 242–255. doi: 10.1002/ieam.1605