REDIPED

(Relational Database of Information on Potential Endocrine Disrupters)

 Available NOW on CD-ROM

 Free demonstration version now available

 

An essential tool for researchers and policy makers in the field of endocrine disruption


Criteria for inclusion of chemicals on the database:

  • one or more ‘positive’ findings from in vitro or in vivo assays indicative of endocrine disruption;
  • findings from general or reproductive toxicity tests indicative of potential endocrine activity; or
  • previous identification of the chemical as a potential endocrine disrupter by an authoritative international or national body.

For a full list of chemicals included on the CD-ROM, please click here.


Developed for use with Microsoft® Access 97, 2000 and 2002 software on Microsoft® 95, 98 or 2000 platforms.

REDIPED was designed in consultation with scientists from the anticipated user community. It is user-friendly and its CD format offers a fast, flexible, robust and easily portable information source, independent of any need for web access.


The CD-ROM contains:

  • Information on 79 potential endocrine disrupting chemicals, including naturally occurring compounds, industrial chemicals, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals.
    Chemicals are selected from a main chemical navigation page by means of a drop down menu or by typing in the required chemical name.
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  • Information on a comprehensive battery of physical, chemical, biological and other properties can be accessed.
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  • Over 2000 searchable references supporting all entries, with extensive notes on cited papers.
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  • The facility to create standard or complex queries to extract specific information.
    For example - Identify all chemicals that have a use category of 'agrochemical', have a high production or market volume output (>1000 tonnes/annum), have any positive in vivo activity data and have evidence of exposure in wildlife.
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  • Help tutorials - provide guidance on the use of the database and how to interrogate the data.
  • A guide to REDIPRED - provides background information on the endocrine disrupter issue and details of the data included in the system.

This user-friendly CD-ROM database has been developed for use with Microsoft® Access 97, Access 2000 or Access 2002 software on Microsoft® Windows 95, 98 or 2000 platforms.

Subsequent versions will be available to ensure the data is kept up-to-date at a highly discounted rate to purchasers of version one.


Demonstration version

A demo version of REDIPED is available for users to download.  This version contains examples of the types of information available in REDIPED for two example chemicals Bisphenol A and Diadzein. This demo version excludes several helpful features that are in the commercial version (e.g. help files, security features). The demo version is supplied in the MS Access 2000 format and should be downloaded as a WinZip format file (File size 2,584kb, packed size 255kb).

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