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MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS

Material Safety Data Sheets are mandated by US environmental and worker safety regulations. There are hundreds of sources for MSDS. FMLink has provided links to several of the most useful sites. For more information, use Webcrawler, Lycos, Yahoo or other Internet search programs to locate other MSDS sites.

Note that each site maintains its own collection of MSDS sheets. Not every chemical is maintained on file at every site. If you are looking for information on a particular substance, you may find it at one site and not at another.

Material Safety Data Sheets
To access: http://msds.pdc.cornell.edu/msdssrch.asp
A searchable database of MSDS files maintained by Cornell University Environmental Health and Safety. Search for records containing any word, such as molecular formula or manufacturer. The more than 250,000 MSDS files contained in this database are derived from the U.S. Government Department of Defense MSDS database and a mirror of data from siri.uvm.edu.

EPA Chemical Fact Sheets
To access: http://www.epa.gov/chemfact/
This site features a simple gopher list of chemical fact sheets. They are not Material Safety Data Sheets per se, but are written in less technical language.

Fisher Chemical Co.
To access: https://www2.fishersci.com/chemical/info/msdsinfo.jsp
This commercial site maintains MSDS data on the huge array of chemical products it sells. The MSDS sheets are incorporated into their catalog. To access them, enter the catalog, select a chemical and click on the MSDS icon.

MSDS-SEARCH
To access: http://www.msdssearch.com/
MSDS-SEARCH is a comprehensive address for free information related to Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), providing access to over 1,000,000 MSDSs and 1000 links directly to manufacturers in the manufacturers links section. The site is operated by Envirocare, which was founded in 1992 to help clients find solutions to their MSDS problems by building and maintaining their Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) libraries. MSDS-SEARCH contacts manufacturers on a periodic basis to request new copies of the data base records; updates or changes are downloaded in those files to the client library.

Oxford University
Toaccess: http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/
Besides online MSDS listings at the above address, this site also features a list of maximum exposure limits for certain chemicals and a list of FAQs pertaining to toxins. You can reach these lists through the Chemistry Department's home page at http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/~hmc/safetytl.html.