Assessment of chemicals

Summary Table of Available Tools for Risk Assessment

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Categories		Links to Available Materials	Explanation
Hazard Assessment	Gathering existing information	OECD Existing Chemicals database	OECD-wide agreed hazard assessments elaborated in the OECD Co-operative Chemicals Assessment Programme
		eChemPortal	Global Portal to Information on Chemical Substances
		Manual for the Assessment of Chemicals (Chapter 2)	A set of guidance documents for (initial) risk assessment developed for the OECD Co-operative Chemicals Assessment Programme. See chapter 2 for gathering data
	Evaluating existing information	Manual for the Assessment of Chemicals (Chapter 3)	See chapter 3.1 for determining the quality of existing data
	Generating new data	Test guidelines	Test methods for assessing (hazard) properties of chemicals
	Generating new data	The OECD (Q)SAR Project	Guidance and tools for filling data gaps by non-testing methods.
	Assessing the hazards	Manual for the Assessment of Chemicals (Chapter4) & (Chapter 5)	Chapter 4 provides guidance assessing the hazards of chemical substances to man and the environment Chapter 5 provides guidance on elaborating a hazard assessment report.
	Assessing the hazards	Series on Testing and Assessment	Guidance documents and reports related to assessment of several inherent effects
Exposure Assessment	General guidance for exposure assessment	Environmental Exposure Assessment Strategies for Existing Industrial Chemicals in Member Countries	An overview of the approaches on environmental exposure assessment used in the late 1990s by OECD member countries
	General guidance for exposure assessment	Manual for the Assessment of Chemicals (Chapter 6)	Guidance on reporting exposure information (Section 6.2) and on initial exposure assessment. (Sections 6.3 and 6.4)
	Measuring or estimating releases to the environment	Emission Scenario Documents	Estimating emission of chemicals in specific industry and use categories
		Global Portal to PRTR Information (PRTR net)	A gateway and databases of global information on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs)
		Resource Centre for PRTR Rerease Estimation Techniques
		Centre for PRTR Data
	Environmental fate and pathways	Test guidelines	Test methods for assessing (hazard) properties of chemicals
		The OECD (Q)SAR Project	Guidance and tools for filling data gaps by non-testing methods.
		Pov and LRTP Screening Tool	A tool for screening overall persistence and long-range transport potential of chemicals
		Guidance Document on the Use of Multimedia Models for Estimating Overall Environmental Persistence and Long-range Transport	Guidance on the models estimating Pov and LRTP
		EPISuite™	The EPI (Estimation Programs Interface) Suite™ is a Windows®-based suite of physical/chemical property and environmental fate estimation programs developed by the USEPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention Toxics and Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC).
	Measuring or estimating concentrations in the environment	Report on improving the use of monitoring data	The workshop report on the use of monitoring data in exposure assessment
		Available tools and models for exposure assessment	A list of tools and models developed and used in OECD member countries for different tiers of exposure assessment.
Other Relevant Materials/ Risk Assessment of Specific Chemicals		New Chemical Assessment Comparisons and Implications for Work Sharing	Comparison of risk assessment of new chemicals.
		Policy Dialogue on Exposure Assessment	Comparison of approaches to exposure assessment in OECD member countries
		Pesticide Testing and Assessment	Guidance documents etc. on hazard and exposure assessment of pesticides and biocides respectively.
		Biocides