TDI

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TDI A NETWORK OF INFORMATION AND CASE
DOCUMENTATION IN GERMAN POISON CENTRESDesel H1),
Ganzert M2), Cordes T3), Hahn A4), Heinemeyer
G4), Hüller G5), Stürer A6), 1Poison Centre (PC)
Göttingen, 2PC Munich, 3ISTC Freiburg/Br., 4BfR
Berlin, 5PC Erfurt, 6PC Mainz, Germany
www.tdi-network.org
The situation in the past the problem
Results Until spring 2003 all components of the
TDI have been implemented and successfully
tes-ted in 10 German PCs as well as in industry
in several industrial companies product data is
en-tered into the system using the projects data
acquisition programme EMIL. Data files created by
the EMIL software are sent to one selected
project centre (primary centre 1c in Fig. 1,
i.e. PC or BfR) using the well defined ROSETTA)
data format. The primary centre checks the data
source and data quality by an automatic
proce-dure and distributes data to all other
project part-ners (secondary centres 2c) using
encrypted electronic data exchange. Finally, all
centres inte-grate the evaluated product data
records in their local relational TDI database
(ORACLE) for retrie-val within PCs daily work.
Objective In recent years, all 10 German poison
cen-tres (PC) serving different regions of the
country and the Federal Institute for Risk
Assessment (BfR), for-merly BgVV), Berlin, have
intensified their coopera-tion. Among other
aspects, the exchange of data on consumer
products, delivered from industry either
voluntarily according to the "EAPCCT format" (1)
or on legal basis has become an important part of
PC work and quality management. The research
project TDI (Toxikologischer Dokumentations-
und Informa-tionsverbund Cooperation on
Toxicological Case Documentation and
Information), funded by the Ger-man Federal
Ministry of Environment, Natural Protec-tion and
Nuclear Safety, was constituted 1999 to de-sign,
develop, and implement a computer network as a
tool for reliable and easy-to-handle product data
ex-change and data retrieval.
many data producers (industrial companies)
C2
C3
C4
C5
C1
...
BfR
11 data users(poison centres and BfR)
PC
PC
PC
PC
PC
The concept
many dataproducers
C2
C3
C4
C5
C1
...
T D I
11 data users
PC
PC
PC
PC
PC
BfR
The technical network in 2003
Conclusion Product information delivered by
industrial companies in a reliable data format is
easily checked and quickly distributed to all
German PC and the BfR using several technical
tools developed in the TDI project. The project
works as a peer-to-peer network without central
steering institution and is therefore a model how
an international data exchange could be realised
in the future. Reference (1) Exchange of
Information Between European Poison Control
Centres And Industry (AISFIFEFEA). EAPCCT
Newsletter April 1996, p. 3-13

• Methods Based on experience from cooperations
  within two national research projects in the last
  decade (EVA and TOXINFO-2) experts from 7 German
  PCs formed 4 working groups to develop concepts
  on
• use of computer technology for projects
  database development
• (b) industry PC relationship, including design
  of a product data acquisition programme,
• (c) product categorisation ), and
• (d) procedures for cooperation and data exchange.
  
• Staff members and two external software companies
  have developed the project's software. The
  working groups have continuously controlled the
  development of project's work and have organised
  software implementation and testing.

function tool data type
data input EMIL local database
data transfer diskette, email ROSETTA data file
data check TDIsoft. check local TDI data base
data transfer standard ftp upload tools encypted ROSETTA data file
data storage UNIX ftp Server UNIX file system
data transfer TDIsoft. download encypted ROSETTA
data import TDIsoft. import local TDI data base
data retrieval TDIsoft. retrieval local TDI data base
EMIL
EMIL
EMIL
com- pany 1
com- pany 2
com- pany 3
TDIsoft check
TDIsoft check
BfR1 c
PC11 c
ftp.tdi-network.org
TDIsoft
TDIsoft
TDIsoft
PC82 c
PC92 c
PC102 c
Fig. 1 The situation in the past, the TDI
concept, and the TDI network
) detailed results on these topics are
presented in other presentation/poster ) BfR is
collecting chemical and biocidal product
information by law