Chemical Safety and Biosafety

The 21st issue of the Environment, Health and Safety News has been issued.

13-Nov-2007

The Environment, Health and Safety News is a newsletter issued approximately every eight months.  Its purpose is to provide an update on the main events and activities of the OECD Environment, Health and Safety Programme. Information on new publications arising from the Programme as well as dates and venues of upcoming events and meetings are given.

Report of the joint OECD/EC seminar on harmonised environmental indicators for pesticide risk (HAIR)

25-Sep-2007

This report presents the results of a joint OECD/EC seminar on the development of harmonised environmental indicators for pesticide risk. The seminar was held on 13 November 2006 in Bonn (Germany).
Series on Pesticides, N° 40,
[ENV/JM/MONO(2007)27]

Current Developments/ Activities on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials, Berlin, Germany, 25-27 April 2007

07-Aug-2007

This document provides information on current/planned activities related to the safety of manufactured nanomaterials in OECD member countries.  Information was provided by delegations who participated in the 2nd Meeting of OECD's Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials.  There are also reports on relevant current activities in other International Organisations such as the ISO. In addition, delegations added a short list of highlights at the top of their submissions to give readers a general idea of key events since the 1st meeting of the Working Party. 

Report of the OECD Pesticide Risk Reduction Steering Group Workshop "Pesticide User Compliance"

12-Jul-2007

This report presents a summary of the discussions at, and the outcomes from, the OECD workshop on Pesticide User Compliance Issues. The workshop was held in Ottawa, from 6-8 June 2006 and was hosted by Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA). The focus of the workshop was on issues and impediments to compliance associated with pesticide use. Such issues were addressed in the context of reducing risks to human health and the environment as well as risks to the integrity of the regulatory process.
[Series on Pesticides N° 37]
ENV/JM/MONO(2007)9

OECD Workshop on the Development of a Unique Identifier for Bacteria

06-Jul-2007

An OECD workshop was held by the Sub-working Group on Micro-organisms of the OECD Working Group on Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology (the Working Group), 20-22 June 2007 at Moscow State University.

The 18th Addendum to the OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals was adopted in January 2007:

05-Feb-2007

Section 2: Effects on Biotic Systems
224  Determination of the Inhibition of the Activity of Anaerobic Bacteria – Reduction of Gas Production from anaerobically digesting (sewage) sludge

 Section 5: Other Test Guidelines Part A: Pesticide Residue Chemistry 
 Introduction to Section 5
 501  Metabolism in Crops
 502  Metabolism in Rotational Crops
 503  Metabolism in Livestock
 504  Residues in Rotational Crops (Limited Field Studies)
 505  Residues in Livestock

Press Release: Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals are free of charge

31-Jan-2007

All OECD Test Guidelines are free of charge and can be found at SourceOECD and the OECD Bookshop.

Current Developments/ Activities on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials: Tour de Table at the 1st Meeting of the Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials, London, United Kingdom, 26-27 October 2006

29-Nov-2006

This document provides information on current or planned activities related to the safety of manufactured nanomaterials in OECD member countries.  This information was provided as written reports by delegations who participated in the 1st Meeting of OECD's Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN).  There are also written reports on relevant current activities in other International Organisations such as the UNESCO and the ISO. Additional information on the programme of work of the WPMN can be found in here  .

The establishment of Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials, 14 September 2006

20-Sep-2006

The OECD Council agreed to the establishment of the Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials, as a subsidiary body of the Chemicals Committee on Thursday, 14 September. This working party is established to address human health and environmental safety aspects of manufactured nanomaterials, in the chemicals sector. The 1st Meeting of the Working Party will be held  26-27 October in London, UK. The main objective of this meeting is to agree a draft Programme of Work on the safety of manufactured nanomaterials, 2006-2008, to be forwarded to the Chemicals Committee.

Published: Report on the Regulatory Uses and Applications in OECD Member Countries of (Quantitative) Structure-Activity Relationships [(Q)SAR] Models in the Assessment of New and Existing Chemicals

14-Aug-2006

OECD published a case study report on the current status of regulatory uses and application of (Q)SAR models in member countries, which will assist in the identification and use of (Q)SAR models in regulatory contexts. Case studies on current regulatory applications and prospective uses received from Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Commission are compiled.

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