The Consumer Product Information Database (CPID), former Household Products Database, is a collection of information about chemical ingredients in a variety of household products marketed in the United States.
Description
The Consumer Health Product Database is a web-based application that allows the public to search for specific products or specific chemical ingredients. It is a collection of publicly available information, mostly from product labels and
Safety Data Sheets (former MSDS) provided by the product's manufacturer.
It does not cover products whose ingredients are proprietary.
As of 2021, the collection includes more than 23,000 products. The preponderance of these products are marketed for home use in the United States, although some are for commercial settings and some are for customers in European countries. It does not cover food or medicines. It is maintained by DeLima Associates and receives funding from the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) conducts research into the effects of the environment on human disease, as one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is located in the Resea ...
, part of the
United States National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1 ...
.
History
The Consumer Product Information Database was initiated by DeLima Associates in 1994.
By 2010, it was publicly available on DeLima's web site.
The Household Products Database, or Household Products Safety Database (HPD) for several years provided access to the CPID. The HPD was hosted on the
National Library of Medicine's web site and the content was licensed from DeLima Associates.
It was initially compiled in 1995,
although some sources describe it as being launched in 2003. The National Library of Medicine announced the Household Products Database would be retired in December 2019, and instead directed users to the CPID web site.
See also
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Environmental Working Group
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is an American activist group that specializes in research and advocacy in the areas of agricultural subsidies, toxic chemicals, drinking water pollutants, and corporate accountability. EWG is a nonprofit ...
, which maintains a database of ingredients of cosmetics
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DailyMed
DailyMed is a website operated by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) to publish up-to-date and accurate drug labels (also called a "package insert") to health care providers and the general public. The contents of DailyMed is provided and ...
, drug labels in the USA
References
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External links
Consumer Product Information Database
Online databases
Databases in the United States
Consumer organizations in the United States
Product safety