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15-Apr-2008
The chemical industry and OECD governments test hundreds of chemicals every year, spending millions of euros to ensure the safety of chemical products. Now OECD has devised an innovative product, the (Q)SAR Application Toolbox, to estimate the hazardous properties of chemicals by analysing their molecular structure.
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Nanotechnologies at the OECD
26-Feb-2008
The OECD has prepared an overview of its work on nanotechnologies for Forum VI of the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS). This event will be held in Dakar, Senegal, 15-19 September 2008. The document, "Nanotechnologies at the OECD", is available in English, French and Russian.
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22-Feb-2008
The OECD will take part in an thhis symposium which will be held on 23 April 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. A two-day OECD WPMN meeting - OECD Workshop on the Sponsorship Programme for the Testing of Manufactured Nanomaterials - will follow this event to discuss the sponsorship programme for the testing of manufactured nanomaterials.
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21-Feb-2008
The European Union has released a publication on nanotechnology research funding addressing potential health and environmental impacts of nanoparticles: EU nanotechnology R&D in the field of health and environmental impact of nanoparticles
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19-Feb-2008
This Programme of Work on Manufactured Nanomaterials 2006-2008 was agreed in September 2006 September by OECD’s Chemicals Committee. To implement this work the Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (WPMN) was established. The Terms of Reference for the WPMN are found in Annex II.
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28-Jan-2008
En décembre 2004, le Sous-comité d’experts de l’Organisation des Nations-Unies sur le SGH a demandé que l’OCDE examine la possibilité de développer des critères de classification pour les substances qui appauvrissent la couche d’ozone, en coopération avec la Conférence des Parties au Protocol de Montréal, et de développer d’abord une comparaison détaillée des systèmes de classification existant dans les pays/régions. La comparaison détaillée a été soumise au Sous-comité en juillet 2006.
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25-Jan-2008
In December 2004, the UN Sub-Committee of Experts on the GHS requested that the OECD examine possibilities to develop classification criteria for ozone depleting substances in cooperation with the Conference of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol and develop first a detailed comparison of classification systems in countries/regions. The detailed comparison was submitted to the Sub-Committee in July 2006 and the Sub-Committee agreed that the work should continue and that it would consider any proposal or option in this respect for final decision.
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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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