Evaluation of the availability of toxicological information of chemicals used in wide scale in Brazil

Abstract

This study had as purpose to survey the existence of nine types of toxicological information on chemical products that are being used in Brazil, in higher or equal amounts of 500 tons per year, restricted to those products whose inquiries are not being made by recognized entities in the international scientific community. As result, the study showed that in sampling of 461 chemical products used in wide scale in Brazil, only eighteen of these products had the nine types of toxicological information evaluated. Also it was demonstrated that twelve chemical products did not had any toxicological information, disabling their risk evaluation.