Table 1 Sources included in this Multimedia Chemical Monitoring Database.

From: A harmonized chemical monitoring database for support of exposure assessments

Source

Abbreviation

Source Description

Website

American Healthy Homes Survey12,13

ahhs

Nationally-representative study of contaminants in homes by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

https://www.epa.gov/ace/american-healthy-homes-survey-ahhs

National Atmospheric Deposition Program (Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network (AIRMoN)

airmon

AIRMoN is a monitoring network of seven sites in the Eastern U.S. - data were available for 1992–2015 (no

https://nadp.slh.wisc.edu/archived-networks/

Biomonitoring California

biomon_ca

Collaborative biomonitoring effort (The California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program, also known as Biomonitoring California), implemented by the California Department of Public Health and the California Environmental Protection Agency

http://biomonitoring.ca.gov/chemicals/chemicals-biomonitored-california

California Air Monitoring Network14,15,16,17,18,19

ca_airmon

Multi‐year air monitoring network to measure pesticides in various agricultural communities in California (2012–2016)

http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/emon/airinit/air_network_results.htm

California Surface Water Database

ca_surf

Surface Water Database (SURF) maintained by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR), containing data from a wide variety of environmental monitoring studies

http://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/emon/surfwtr/surfdata.htm

California Air Resources Board (CARB)20

carb

Report from CARB to the California Legislature on indoor air pollution (2005)

https://www.arb.ca.gov/research/apr/reports/l3041.pdf

ChemTheatre

chem_theatre

ChemTHEATRE: Chemicals in the THEATRE [Tractable and Heuristic E-Archive for Traceability and Responsible-care Engagement], a platform for archival of environmental measurements supported by the Long-range Research Initiative (LRI) and the Japan Chemical Industry Association (JCIA)

http://chem-theatre.com/

Comparative Toxicogenomics Database21,22

ctd

A robust, publicly available database of data from published sources that aims to advance understanding about how environmental exposures affect human health

http://ctdbase.org/

EPA Nine POTW Study

epa_9potw

Results from an EPA Study of the occurrence of contaminants of emerging concern in wastewater from publicly owned treatment works (POTW)

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2018-11/documents/occurrence-cec-wastewater-9-treatment-work.pdf

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ambient Monitoring Technology Information Center – Air Toxics Data

epa_amtic

Ambient Monitoring Archive of the EPA’s Ambient Monitoring Technology Information Center (AMTIC) The archive covers measurements of hazardous air pollutants (HAPS) from as early as 1990 to 2016. The archive for HAPs currently houses data from over 2,500 monitoring sites.

https://www3.epa.gov/ttnamti1/toxdat.html

EPA Discharge Monitoring Report Data

epa_dmr

State-level data for 2007–2016 from discharge monitoring reports from EPA’s Enforcement and Compliance History Online site.

https://cfpub.epa.gov/dmr/

EPA Office of Water, National Study of Chemical Residues in Lake Fish Tissue23

epa_nscrlft

Data from a published report on a national EPA study to estimate the national distribution of selected persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) chemical residues in fish tissue from lakes and reservoirs of the United States.

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2018-11/documents/national-study-chemical-residues-lake-fish-tissue.pdf

Targeted National Sewage Sludge Survey24

epa_tnsss

2009 EPA survey to examine over 350 pollutants in sewage sludge.

https://www.epa.gov/biosolids/sewage-sludge-surveys

EPA Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule

epa_ucmr

Data collected under the EPA Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR3). The rule is used to collect data for contaminants that are suspected to be present in drinking water and do not have health-based standards set under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). State-level data from 2013–2015.

https://www.epa.gov/dwucmr/occurrence-data-unregulated-contaminant-monitoring-rule

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Total Diet Study

fda_tds

Ongoing FDA program that monitors levels of about 800 contaminants and nutrients in the average U.S. diet. Database includes data from 2003–2011.

http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodScienceResearch/TotalDietStudy/ucm184293.htm

ICES-DOME

ices

Marine Environment Data Portal of The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), an intergovernmental marine science organization.

https://www.ices.dk/data/data-portals/Pages/DOME.aspx

Information Platform for Chemical Monitoring Data (IPCHEM)

ip_chem

IPCHEM is a web single access point for locating and accessing chemical monitoring data across all media in the European Union. Data included both environmental and biomonitoring data.

https://ipchem.jrc.ec.europa.eu/RDSIdiscovery/ipchem/index.html

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

nhanes

National Health and Nutrition Survey. 2018 Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals. Updated Tables, March 2018, Volume One.

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/53006

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Residue Program (NRP)

usda_nrp

Chemical residue results for meat, poultry, and egg products.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/science-data/data-sets-visualizations/residue-chemistry

United States Geological Service (USGS) Monitoring Data –National Water Quality Monitoring Council

usgs

Monitoring data from USGS for air, biological tissue, groundwater, sediment, soil, surface water, and tissue (2010–2018).

http://www.waterqualitydata.us/portal/

  1. The sources may be further refined (e.g., by media type or other data subset) in later tables. Details of these sources (including extraction method and additional links) are provided in Supplementary Table S1.