Chemical safety project advances
9 Oct 2018 by Evoluted New Media
An alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences has announcing a number of advances its Chemical Safety Library Service.
The project, run by the Pistoia Alliance, captures, stores and shares hazardous reaction information to improve laboratory safety has seen a four-fold increase in the number of chemical incidents recorded, with a total of 138 reactions now added.
“The Chemical Safety Library has had a fantastic start – with the number of registrations showing the scientific community’s interest in ways to ensure lab safety,” commented Steve Arlington, President of The Pistoia Alliance. “Safety is everyone’s responsibility, but this type of crowd-sourced, community-based sharing is most valuable when users are engaged and involved.”
In the year since its launch, over 1,000 people have registered to access the CSL database. Furthermore, all chemical reaction data in the CSL is now available in PubChem, NBCI’s database of chemical compounds used daily by researchers, scientists, and academics, with new CSL Service incident data automatically added to PubChem.
