Risk Information Exchange
chemical risk assessment database
The Risk Information Exchange (RiskIE) is an internet database created in 2007 by Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA). The database provides in-progress and recently completed chemical risk assessments. RiskIE is designed to help scientists stay aware of current chemical evaluations, identify opportunities for collaborations, and decide how to efficiently proceed with chemical registration with organizations such as the European Union's Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH). The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) also uses this database, claiming that as of 2022, it is already in use in 52 countries.
History
Michael Dourson, previously a toxicologist with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, founded TERA in 1995. After 21 years as an independent organization, TERA merged with the University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, where it continued operation. Two years later, the University and Cincinnati and TERA opted to dissolve their partnership.
ITER Database
TERA provides an online database named the International Toxicity Estimates for Risk database (ITER), which provides chronic human health risk assessment data from several organizations worldwide, explains the differences in those risk values, and links to the organizations' websites. It is the only database that has risk information from independent parties that have undergone independent peer review.
ITER supports the mission of the Alliance for Risk Assessment (ARA) by tracking information risk assessment activities and values.
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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7336241. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2007, 2022 and 1995.
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