29-May-2018
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29-31 May 2018 - The Global Forum aims to shed light on sustainable plastic good practices; and will provide an overview of the role of plastics, deliver examples of sustainable plastic design, define "sustainable" from the lens of chemical selection, identify key tools and approaches, and discuss current and future environmental policy instruments to incentivise sustainable plastic design.
16-May-2018
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The OECD release a New Comprehensive Global Database of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) listing 4730 new PFAS, including several new groups of PFASs that fulfil the common definition of PFASs (i.e. they contain at least one perfluoroalkyl moiety) but have not yet been commonly regarded as PFASs.
4-May-2018
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The OECD welcomed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Guangdong Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the OECD which will support China’s efforts in chemicals regulation and policy making.
4-May-2018
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The SACAME project supports the socio-economic analysis of chemicals by allowing a better quantification and monetisation of health- and environmental impacts. This research, funded by the EC, builds on the OECD work on quantifying the social costs of environmental externalities, particulary in recent years on the costs of air pollution. Latest report: Environmental and health impacts caused by Perfluorooctanoic acid.
20-April-2018
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This new Advisory Document provides clarity for test facilities on the expectations of national Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) compliance monitoring authorities regarding how test items are transported, received, identified, labelled, sampled, handled, stored, characterised, archived and disposed according to the Principles of OECD GLP.
12-April-2018
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This new council act recommends that Member countries take steps to establish, as appropriate, implement and make publicly available a pollutant release and transfer register (PRTR) system using the principles and information set forth in the OECD Guidance Documents on PRTRs.
12-April-2018
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New report on the proceedings of the 8th Expert Group on BioPesticides Seminar on Niche Uses of Highly Specific Biocontrol Products.
9-April-2018
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Ten years ago, OECD started to develop tools to avoid market monopoly as far as possible, to avoid abusive situations and to maintain transparency in OECD Test Guidelines containing Intellectual Property (IP) elements. Find out how the OECD address protected elements in OECD Test Guidelines.
5-April-2018
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The Information Exchange Webinar for Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment (IATA) Related Projects aimed to share experiences in IATA related activities and to identify synergies and areas for collaboration between OECD IATA working groups. Missed the webinar ? Watch the video recordings.
23-March-2018
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The purpose of this Series is to provide up-to-date information on the OECD activities related to human health and environmental safety. Read our latest report on "Evaluation of in vitro methods for human hazard assessment applied in the OECD Testing Programme for the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials".