MSDS and Chemical Information
Material Safety Data Sheets are extremely important in the safe handling of hazardous substances. They are addressed in the following ways by EHS:
- CCINFOweb Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety collection of databases including MSDS, CHEMINFO (occupational health and safety information on chemicals), and RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances). Restricted to University of Texas at Austin users, through a computer on campus or a Telesys utexas.edu domain name connection. Please contact your network administrator or e-mail ehs@www.utexas.edu for help.
- Appendix IV of the University Laboratory Safety Manual (General information about MSDS)
- MSDS Glossary of Terms
- EHS hardcopy MSDS files (located at SER 202)
MSDS and related items available online
- Vermont SIRI MSDS archive (searchable)
- Where to find MSDS on the Internet Excellent listing of over 70 free MSDS sources maintained by The University of Kentucky
- ATSDR Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (index)
- ECDIN Environmental Chemicals Data and Information Network (searchable)
- Envirofacts EPA Toxic Substances Data Sheets (index)
- Grainger Incorporated (searchable)
- Oxford University (UK) (index and searchable)
- PharmInfoNet Pharmaceutical information (index)
- Scientific Instrument Services (index)
- Sigma-Aldrich Requires registration (searchable)
- University of Akron Hazardous Chemical Database (searchable)
- National Toxicology Program searchable abstracts of carcinogenicity, teratogenicy, mutagenicity from National Institutes of Health
- Fisher Scientific Chemical Catalogs with MSDS
