Rebooted chemical safety database now hosted by CAS

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ACS data division partnership gives crowd-sourced reaction hazard library a more accessible and scalable platform 

A crowdsourced database of hazardous chemical reactions has become more accessible and scalable thanks to backing from the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) data division, CAS.

The freely available Chemical Safety Library (CSL) is intended to improve awareness of potentially hazardous experiments, and was originally developed by the US non-profit Pistoia Alliance in 2017.