Abstract
Quantitative data on product chemical composition is a necessary parameter for characterizing near-field exposure. This data set comprises reported and predicted information on more than 75,000 chemicals and more than 15,000 consumer products. The data’s primary intended use is for exposure, risk, and safety assessments. The data set includes specific products with quantitative or qualitative ingredient information, which has been publicly disclosed through material safety data sheets (MSDS) and ingredient lists. A single product category from a refined and harmonized set of categories has been assigned to each product. The data set also contains information on the functional role of chemicals in products, which can inform predictions of the concentrations in which they occur. These data will be useful to exposure and risk assessors evaluating chemical and product safety.
Highlights
Evaluating chemical safety and sustainability over the life cycle of products requires drawing upon the various data streams and impact assessment tools from the life cycle assessment (LCA) field, along with improved exposure models that rapidly and reliably characterize human health risks of chemicals from direct and indirect exposure pathways
Quantitative data on product chemical composition is a necessary parameter for characterizing near-field exposure
Previous efforts at the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (U.S EPA) have aggregated data on consumer product composition (the Chemical/Product Categories Database (CPCat)[3], and the Consumer Product Chemical Profiles database (CPCPdb4)) and functional use of chemicals (i.e., the role a chemical plays in a product, e.g. solvent vs. fragrance; the Functional Use database (FUse)5,6)
Summary
Evaluating chemical safety and sustainability over the life cycle of products requires drawing upon the various data streams and impact assessment tools from the life cycle assessment (LCA) field, along with improved exposure models that rapidly and reliably characterize human health risks of chemicals from direct and indirect exposure pathways. We describe the Chemicals and Products Database (CPDat), a data set of consumer product composition and functional use, including information on >75,000 chemicals and >15,000 consumer products. CPDat includes seven distinct newly acquired data sets on product composition (both reported values and quantitative predictions based on ingredient list labels) and functional use. J Reported data on composition of a large number of consumer products, including weight fractions for each component, taken from publicly available Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). Information about exposure is a critical component of risk evaluations and provides realworld context to hazard (i.e., toxicity data) These data can be reused in aggregate (i.e., single chemical, multi-product) and cumulative (i.e., multi-chemical) assessments by federal and state governments, academia, and industry
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