Securing chemical data from industry for assessing potential risks

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends generating data necessary for assessment, building, inter alia, on programmes of IPCS (UNEP, WHO, ILO), FAO, OECD and EEC/EU and on established programmes of other regions and governments; and that industry should participate actively.

The US EPA Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) is an electronic database containing reports on toxic emissions for every manufacturing facility in the USA that: (1) employs more than 10 full time employees and (2) manufactures more than 25,000 pounds of any of 350 specific toxic chemicals.