Chemical information provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced that the 2013 Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances in China (IECSC) has been added to its database containing international regulatory information for chemical substances, CHEMLIST.
This information is available on STN, the choice of patent experts, in SciFinder, and will be available later in 2013 on the National Chemical Inventories on CD. CHEMLIST claims to be the most accurate source of substance and regulatory information with validated CAS Registry Numbers and the world's most extensive collection of chemical names, consisting of systematic, trade and common names.
The addition of the IECSC to the thirteen national inventories already available in CHEMLIST brings the number of regulated substances in CHEMLIST to more than 300,000.
CHEMLIST began with national chemical inventories such as the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances (EINECS), and the Japanese Existing and New Chemical Substances (ENCS). It has expanded to include additional inventories from Canada, Australia, Korea, the Philippines, Switzerland and New Zealand. Lists of chemicals identified as part of the EU REACH legislation, high production volume (HPV) chemicals, priority chemicals, dangerous chemicals with transportation restrictions, as well as pollutant release inventories are also in CHEMLIST.
The 2013 IECSC adds more than 42,000 registered substances and more than 3,200 confidential substances monitored and reported on in China.
