As in previous years, most confidential requests in 2006-07 to search the AICS were for less than ten chemicals per request (97 per cent – 174 out of 180). The remainder included five search requests for between 11 and 20 chemicals, and one for between 21 and 50 chemicals.
Since a fee to search the non-confidential section of the
AICS was introduced by NICNAS, the number of requests for these searches of
non-confidential listings has dramatically decreased and
three requests only were received. Three-year trend data for search requests
and chemicals searched are shown in Table 13, with three-year trend data for
chemicals searched per request shown in Table 14.
Table 13: AICS search requests and
chemicals searched, over three years
|
|
2004-05* |
2005-06 |
2006-07 |
|
Requests |
163 |
162 |
180 |
|
Chemicals searched |
413 |
521 |
476 |
* Introduction of searching fee
Table 14: Number of searches per AICS search request, over three years
|
|
2004-05 |
2005-06 |
2006-07 |
|||
|
|
No. |
(% of total) |
No. |
(% of total) |
No. |
(% of total) |
|
1-10 |
158 |
(96.9) |
149 |
(92) |
174 |
(97) |
|
11-20 |
4 |
(2.4) |
9 |
(5) |
5 |
(2) |
|
21-50 |
1 |
(0.7) |
3 |
(2) |
1 |
(1) |
|
>50 |
- |
- |
1 |
(1) |
- |
- |