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18-March-2011
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Within the OECD Cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme, sponsors (countries or companies) assess and review industrial chemicals, which can include high production volume (HPV) or non-HPV, existing or new chemicals. Biocides, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and food additives are generally not covered in these activities or are assessed in other OECD programmes.
18-March-2011
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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.
17-March-2011
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The OECD Cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme was established, to better respond to the changing needs of member countries.
17-March-2011
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A 1991 Council Decision resulted in the initiation of cooperatively assessing hazard and exposure of high production volume (HPV) chemicals using the Screening Information Data Set (SIDS) at OECD. In 1998, to coordinate with the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) initiative, OECD and member countries began to focus on initial hazard assessments of HPV chemicals to increase transparency, efficiency and productivity,
3-March-2011
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This document outlined the draft descriptions and tables for the recognition of donors for consideration by the Management Group.
16-September-2010
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The purpose of this Emission Scenario Document (ESD) is to provide realistic worst-case emission estimates for chemicals used in the electronics industry.
16-September-2010
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The purpose of this Emission Scenario Docuemtn (ESD) is to provide realistic worst-case emission estimates for fragrance oils blended into commercial and consumer products.
7-June-2010
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This document is a report of the expert consultation held on 20 October 2009 with the aim to evaluate a set of structural alerts for estimating covalent binding of chemicals with DNA.
7-June-2010
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This document is a report of the expert consultation held on 20 October 2009 with the aim to evaluate a set of structural alerts for estimating covalent binding of chemicals with DNA.
1-June-2010
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Estimating overall persistence and long-range transport potential of organic chemicals.
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