1-August-2017
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The OECD Environment, Safety and Health Programme takes actions to develop tools and relevant guidance to identify endocrine disrupting chemicals for the protection of human health and the environment. Based on scientific works and research efforts, standardised test methods can be adopted by OECD countries to detect and characterise hazards posed by endocrine disrupting chemicals.
1-August-2017
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OECD Test Guidelines are used by member countries and industry to generate chemical safety data. Therefore, Test Guidelines need to be broadly available, and transparently described while open to innovation.
31-July-2017
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Hazard Assessment of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) and its Salts for human health and the environment, as a result of its investigation in the OECD Existing Chemicals Programme.
31-July-2017
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Publications from the Series on Risk Management which relate to Work on Specific Chemical Exposures of Concern.
31-July-2017
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The OECD assist governments to implement policies and practices that embody Best Available Techniques (or similar concepts) to prevent and control industrial emissions.
24-July-2017
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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.
19-June-2017
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The OECD developed the BioTrack Product Database which accommodates Unique Identifiers to each transgenic (or genetically engineered) plant that is approved for commercial use, including planting and food/feed use. These Unique Identifiers are intended to be used as "keys" to access information of each transgenic product in this database and to ensure the safety of modern biotechnology products
22-May-2017
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These documents focus on the biology of organisms (such as plants, trees or micro-organisms) or introduced novel traits.
18-May-2017
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Documents in the Series on Testing and Assessment on the subject of Emission and Exposure.
15-May-2017
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New harmonised guidance published on how to conduct studies which demonstrate the transformation, transport and fate of pesticides under representative use conditions. This guidance document along with the Europe-North America Soil Geographic Information for Pesticide Studies database which has been developed in parallel, provide an opportunity for a regulator in one country to evaluate a study conducted at a foreign site.