摘要：The Istituto Superiore Sanità has developed a data bank on sensitizing substances (Banca
Dati Sensibilizzanti, BDS), available on website (www.iss.it/bdse/), sharing complete, controlled and
updated information coming from different sources, such as scientific publications, international
agencies and governmental or non governmental organizations. It is worthwhile that the main objective
of the BDS is not the classification of sensitizing or potentially sensitizing agents within specific
risk classes, but it is essentially to provide concise and non confidential information related to this
endpoint. At present, the BDS includes: all the substances officially classified by European Union,
(Annex I to Directive 67/548/EEC), some substances listed in Annex I (Directive 67/548/EEC) for
endpoints different than “sensitization” but indicated as sensitizers by other relevant institutions,
all the substances indicated as sensitizers by relevant agencies or institutions (AC GIH, DFG), some
substances indicated as sensitizers by industry and other non-governmental organizations (ETA D
and HERA), all the substances regarded as “potentially sensitizing dyes” by the Commission of
the European Community for the award of the Community eco-label to textile products, some substances
for which, even in the absence of any categorization by European Union, AC GIH or DFG,
it is not possible to exclude a sensitizing potential on the basis of reliable documents.
