OECD works with member countries and other stakeholders to cooperatively assess the hazards of industrial chemicals to generate OECD-agreed assessments that are available to the public and that can be used for priority setting, risk assessment and other activities within national or regional programmes. Further, this cooperative work allows member countries and the chemical industry to share the burden of evaluating chemicals and avoid duplication, which in turn increases efficiencies, decreases costs and minimizes the need for animal testing. As part of this work, member countries work together to improve and harmonize chemical assessment methods using the most current science, including integrated approaches to testing and assessment as well as (quantitative) structure activity relationships, or (Q)SARs.

 

Spotlight on the Project

Cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme

Types of Chemicals Assessed

History of the Programme

 

Products

Published Assessments

Status of Chemicals Assessed in the Programme

Series on Testing and Assessment

 

Tools and Methodologies for Hazard Assessment

Manual for the Assessment of Chemicals

Outcome of the OECD workshop on metals specificities in environmental risk assessment

eChemPortal

Activities on QSARs

Risk Assessment Toolkit 

Electronic Tools for Data Submission, Evaluation and Exchange

OECD Harmonized Templates

 

Related Topics

Classification and labelling

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