This project is part of continuous administrative programme. Besides continuous data collection and update, the project also examines and corresponds to toxic chemical substance controlling policy in response to the toxic material issues raised by the international community and concerns by the domestic industry, administration, and academia. Because it includes a broad area of works, we divide them into the following. Gathering toxic dat a and management information; examining Category Ⅱ、Ⅲ toxic chemical substances that includes 137 types; restricted use of 5 toxic chemical substances and production of promotional manuals, with advice and assistance on quality control from the Internal Quality Control Committee proposed by the other sub-project. Methodology of the project consists mainly of data collection, and also includes six conferences of examination and consultation, examination on paper twice, and several cross-department consultation to verify correctness of our data and feasibility of the proposed policy. In addition, to evaluate restricted use of 5 toxic chemical substances, we not only search through the provision database of EPA to survey the current handling of domestic factories, but also use questionnaire and phone interview to proceed with the related task. For those already on list of restricted toxic chemical substances, we accomplish 398 toxic data update and physical and chemical data update; we suggest to include o-Aminotoluene in the observation list of changing toxic classification; For the analysis of pathway and the current controlling policy, we suggest not to ban MTBE in the short term; We finish 189 counts of survey for handling of toxic chemical substance, and suggest revising usage of one toxic chemical substance; we produce a promotional manual “Understand Toxic Materials in the Household. ”We have met the requirement for the project, and hope to provide advice for EPA’s administration.

Toxic Chemical Substances,Endocrine Disruptor,POPs