Guidance Document on the Use of Multimedia Models for Estimating Overall Environmental Persistence and Long-Range Transport

This Guidance Document is addressed to those who are involved in risk assessment and management of chemicals called POPs (persistent organic pollutants) or PBTs (persistent and bio-accumulating toxics). It is about using multimedia models, i.e. generic evaluative models that can calculate overall environmental persistence (Pov) and potential for long-range transport (LTRP) covering multiple compartments such as air, water, sediment

Emission Scenario Document on Water Treatment Chemicals

This OECD Emission Scenario Document (ESD) is intended to provide information on the sources, use patterns and release pathways of chemicals used in the treatment of water in a number of areas to assist in the estimation of releases of chemicals to the environment.

Complementing Guideline for Writing ESDs: The Life-Cycle Step "service-life"

This document is a complement to the Guidance Document on Emission Scenario Documents (OECD Series of Emission Scenario Documents No 1) by focusing emission during service-life of articles. This document was developed by Sweden and reviewed by the OECD Task Force on Environmental Exposure Assessment.

Publications on Chemicals Exposure Assessment

Publications on Chemicals Exposure Assessment

Report of the Expert Consultation on Scientific and Regulatory Evaluation of Organic Chemistry Mechanism-Based Structural Alerts for the Identification of Protein-Binding Chemicals

This document is a report of the expert consultation held on 20 October 2010 with the aim to evaluate a set of structural alerts for estimating covalent binding of chemicals with proteins. This consultation was held based on a key recommendation from the OECD Workshop on Structural Alerts for the OECD (Q)SAR Application Toolbox held in May 2008 [see ENV/JM/MONO(2009)4]. The resulting set of alerts will be implemented in version 2.0 of

Évaluation des dangers

L'OCDE travaille avec les pays membres et autres parties prenantes à coopérer évaluer les dangers des produits chimiques industriels pour générer de l'OCDE ont convenu-évaluations qui sont à la disposition du public et qui peuvent être utilisés pour l'établissement des priorités, l'évaluation des risques et d'autres activités au sein de programmes nationaux ou régionaux.

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Types of Chemicals Assessed in the OECD Cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme

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.

History: From the HPV Chemicals Programme to the Cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme

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,

Donors to the QSAR Toolbox

This document outlined the draft descriptions and tables for the recognition of donors for consideration by the Management Group.

Emission Scenario Document on the Blending of Fragrance Oils into Commercial and Consumer Products

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.