hazardous substances data bank hazardous substances data bank the hazardous substances data bank (hsdb) was a toxicology database on the u.s. national library of medicine's (nlm) toxicology data network (toxnet). it focused on the toxicology of potentially hazardous chemicals, and included information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environmental fate, regulatory requirements, and related areas. all data were referenced and derived from a core set of books, government documents, technical reports, and selected primary journal literature. prior to 2020, all entries were peer-reviewed by a scientific review panel (srp), members of which represented a spectrum of professions and interests. last chairs of the srp are dr. marcel j. cassavant, md, toxicology group, and dr. roland everett langford, phd, environmental fate group. the srp was terminated due to budget cuts and realignment of the nlm. toxnet: hazardous substances data bankcontentdescriptionchemical pharmacology and toxicology datadata typescaptured 5000+ potentially hazardous chemicals human exposure pharmacology metabolism medications excreted in breastmilk industrial hygiene emergency handling environmental fate regulatory requirements related areas organismshumans & other animalscontactresearch centerncbiprimary citationfonger (1995)fonger, et al (2014)accesswebsitehttps://www.nlm.nih.gov/toxnet/index.htmlmiscellaneouslicensepublic domaindata releasefrequencyweeklycuration policypeer-reviewed by the scientific review panel the hsdb was organized into individual chemical records, and contained over 5000 such records. it was accessible free of charge via toxnet. users could search by chemical or other name, chemical name fragment, cas registry number and/or subject terms. recent additions included radioactive materials and certain mixtures, like crude oil and oil dispersants as well as animal toxins. as of november 2014, there were approximately 5,600 chemical specific hsdb records available. toxnet databases the toxicology data network (toxnet) was a group of databases hosted on the national library of medicine (nlm) website that covered "chemicals and drugs, diseases and the environment, environmental health, occupational safety and health, poisoning, risk assessment and regulations, and toxicology". toxnet was managed by the nlm's toxicology and environmental health information program (tehip) in the division of specialized information services (sis). the toxnet databases included: hsdb: hazardous substances data bank peer-reviewed toxicology data for over 5,000 hazardous chemicals toxline 4 million references to literature on biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals chemidplus dictionary of over 400,000 chemicals (names, synonyms, and structures) lactmed: drugs and lactation database drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed dart: developmental and reproductive toxicology database