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10-Dec-2007
OECD member countries, as well as some non-member economies and other stakeholders, are pooling expertise and funding to test the human health and environmental safety effects of a number of nanomaterials.
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06-Dec-2007
The OECD was present in several ways at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia, from 3-14 December 2007. To find out more, just click on the title.
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Testing a Representative Set of Nanomaterials – The Launch of a Sponsorship Programme
04-Dec-2007
OECD’s Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials, has launched a “sponsorship programme” in which countries will share the testing of specific nanomaterials (MNs). Much valuable information on the safety of MNs can be derived by testing a representative set for human health and environmental safety. In launching this “sponsorship programme” the Working Party agreed a priority list of MNs for testing (based on materials which are in or close to commerce) as well as a list of endpoints for which they should be tested. The OECD will be making regular updates on this programme.
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04-Dec-2007
The impact of climate change and urban development could more than triple the number of people around the world exposed to coastal flooding by 2070, according to a new report by the OECD, co-authored by experts from academia and the private sector.
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27-Nov-2007
The OECD Workshop on the application of the GHS classification criteria to HPV chemicals was held in Bern (Switzerland) on 5-6 July 2007. The Workshop was a joint activity of the Task Force on Harmonization of Classification and Labelling and the Task Force on Existing Chemicals. It was prepared by a Steering Group including the members of the bureaus of the two Task Forces.
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Two new reports available for the OECD VERHI project
26-Nov-2007
Two reports prepared in the context of the OECD project on valuation of environment-related health impacts for children (VERHI) have just been released:
- The Summary of Focus Group Discussions and Other Preparatory Work for the VERHI Project
- The Use of Evaluation Tools in Policy-making and Health Implications for Children
To download pdf formats of these documents, please visit www.oecd.org/env/social/envhealth/verhi
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16-Nov-2007
In December 2002, the UN Sub-Committee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (UN SCEGHS) requested the OECD to start a further “development of the classification scheme to accommodate chronic toxicity to aquatic organisms for assigning a chronic hazard category”. In December 2006, the Sub-Committee requested the submission of a proposal in 2007. This document is the proposal for revision of GHS Chapter 4.1.
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16-Nov-2007
This document is the proposal for revision of Annex 9 (A9.1-A9.3 and Appendix VI)
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16-Nov-2007
This document is the proposal on revision of GHS Chapter 4.1: consequential changes in other parts of the GHS
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