ChemSelect is an free online tool for assessing and comparing the sustainability of substances and mixtures. ChemSelect is primarily aimed at users of chemicals: companies that manufacture mixtures and use substances or mixtures in their products or processes.
What can ChemSelect do?
The scientific programme consists of 7 tracks for parallel sessions.
1. Environmental and Human Toxicology: From Molecules to Organisms, From Omics to in Vivo
Objectives and Scope
The Jennifer Altman Foundation has commissioned the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production to review available information relative to the uses and potential alternatives for two brominated flame retardants, tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) and hexabromocyclododecane HBCD. The objective of this study is to accomplish the following:
Building on the OECD Guidance on Key Considerations for the Identification and Selection of Safer Chemical Alternatives, this report describes the results of a landscape study of sustainability attributes used by companies to guide chemical and material selection decisions.
This report was developed under the Working Party on Risk Management. This report summarises discussions held at a workshop on Additional Attributes Beyond Safer for Chemical Selection and Substitution held in Paris 23-24 September 2024. A draft report was reviewed by workshop participants and the Working Party on Risk Management agreed for the report to be released publicly. The Acknowledgements were added to this publication by the OECD Secretariat.
The ToxFMD Screened Chemistry® Library (https://database.toxservices.com) contains GreenScreen® chemical hazard assessments for over 1000 chemicals
Mitigating the impact of toxic chemicals on human health and the environment requires an informed transition to safer alternative chemicals, materials, and technologies. Alternatives assessment is a multi-disciplinary approach to support informed substitution and is defined as a “process for identifying and comparing potential chemical and non-chemical alternatives that could replace chemicals of concern on the basis of their hazards, performance, and economic viability” (National Research Council, 2014).
Supporting the transition to safer and more sustainable chemicals and materials requires minimizing the chance of a regrettable substitution. Alternatives assessment is defined as a “process for identifying and comparing potential chemical and non-chemical alternatives [e.g., materials, products, technologies] that could replace chemicals of concern on the basis of their hazards, performance, and economic viability” (National Research Council, 2014).
