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Compound Groups

Compound groups are groups of chemicals that share structural or chemical features. In most cases, hazard lists will assign hazards to individual substances. Compound groups are useful because in some cases, lists will instead identify a group of structurally similar compounds (such as lead compounds) as all having the same hazard. The Pharos staff is in the process of establishing and populating compound groups, and associating warnings from the hazard lists with them. The table below indicates how each compound group is populated, and what is the status of its population.
Compound Groups
COMPOUND GROUP NAME POPULATION STATUS DATE POPULATED DESCRIPTION PROFILE TYPE # MEMBERS # HAZARDS
Pigments containing or manufactured with chlorine complete 07/19/23

This compound group is populated with ChemForward's inadvertent PCB (iPCB) Pigment Resources - pigments with "Yes" for "Contains Chlorine?" or a "Yes" for "Manufactured using chlorine solvent?".

fixed list 177 0
Boric Acid and its salts, Sodium borate, MIPA-Borate, MEA-Borate in progress 08/07/23

C2C v4

21 1
PFAS soluable in DMSO - EPAPFASIV complete 08/14/23

This compound group is populated from EPAPFASIV's list. EPA filtered several publicly available PFAS lists to exclude most high (>500) and low (<50) molecular weight compounds, aromatic compounds, metal-containing compounds, and chemicals with a low ratio of fluorine to carbon. The PFAS chemicals in this list are in the current inventory found to be soluble in DMSO.

fixed list 437 26
Halogenated Solvents complete 08/17/23

This compound group is populated by selecting halogenated solvents (excluding salts) from GSPI's Six Classes of Problematic Chemicals - Some Solvents List.

fixed list 1023 9
Organohalogen Flame Retardants - NAS OFR expanded set complete 02/12/24

This compound group is populated from "A Class Approach to Hazard Assessment of Organohalogen Flame Retardants" by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The committee identified a set of 1073 analogue compounds as "expanded set" based on combined functional, structural, and predicted bioactivity information.

The subclasses from the seed list used to expand this list are also in Pharos:

fixed list 1084 3
Dichloropropenes - ATSDR complete 10/21/24

see Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Complete Toxicological Profile of Dichloropropenes

fixed list 7 8
Creosote and Creosote related substances - ECHA complete 11/05/24

Tar Oils derived from coal and/or wood by distillation or by other processes.

ECHA group: https://echa.europa.eu/substance-information/-/substanceinfo/100.240.872

fixed list 10 8
Methoxychlor complete 11/27/24

“Methoxychlor” refers to any possible isomer of dimethoxydiphenyltrichloroethane or any combination thereof.

fixed list 3 3
Organophosphorous Pesticides, metabolites, and other targets for measurement - Biomonitoring CA complete 12/03/24

This compound group contains designated chemicals identified by Biomonitoring California that are organophosphorous pesticides, metabolites of organophosphorous pesticides, and other targets for measurement in biomonitoring studies.  Designated chemicals are are the list of chemicals from which Biomonitoring California's Scientific Guidance Panel recommends priority chemicals for biomonitoring. The most current list of designated chemicals may be found at https://www.biomonitoring.ca.gov/chemicals/designated-chemicals.

 

other 50 1
Formaldehyde releasers - WA DoE in progress 02/11/25

This compound group is compiled from WA DoE for Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act. Members CAS are subject to changes as rulemaking finalizes.

fixed list 171 5
Halogenated diphenyl methanes - ECHA in progress 06/23/25

The substances included in the group cover linear and branched aliphatic and aromatic siloxanes as well as cyclic siloxanes. In addition polymeric siloxanes notified under previous legislation (NONS) have been included in the group.

fixed list 33 1
Methyl-phenol Compounds - Apple RSS complete 06/23/25 fixed list 4 1
PFHxA, its salts, and related in progress 06/23/25 fixed list 93 2
Polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) - GADSL complete 09/04/25

 

This compound group was populated from the 2016 GADSL list at http://www.gadsl.org/

fixed list 57 55
Bisphenols - OEKO-TEX complete 09/05/25 fixed list 18 0
Dibromobiphenyls (DiBBs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 12 54
Dibromodiphenylethers (DiBDEs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 12 44
Heptabromobiphenyls (HeptaBBs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 24 54
Heptabromodiphenylethers (HeptaBDEs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 27 44
Hexabromobiphenyls (HexaBBs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 42 54
Hexabromodiphenylethers (HexaBDEs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 42 44
Monobromobiphenyls (MonoBBs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 3 54
Monobromodiphenylethers (MonoBDEs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 3 44
Nonabromobiphenyls (NonaBBs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 3 54
Nonabromodiphenylethers (NonaBDEs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 3 44
Octabromobiphenyls (OctaBBs) complete 09/05/25 12 54
Octabromodiphenylethers (OctaBDEs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 12 44
Pentabromobiphenyls (PentaBBs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 46 54
Pentabromodiphenylethers (PentaBDEs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 46 44
POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS (PBBs) complete 09/05/25

list of PBBs from Comptox organized by number of bromine atoms from subgroups

fixed list 234 54
Tetrabromobiphenyls (TetraBBs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 42 54
Tetrabromodiphenylethers (TetraBDEs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 42 44
Tribromobiphenyls (TriBBs) complete 09/05/25 24 54
Tribromodiphenylethers (TriBDEs) complete 09/05/25 fixed list 24 44