OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals Now Available Free of Charge

06-Feb-2007

The OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals, key tools for governments and industry worldwide to assess the safety of chemical products, are now available free of charge.

Peer Review Packages Available

04-Oct-2006

The peer review packages for the updated Test Guideline 407, the Hershberger Assay and the Stably Transfected Transcriptional Activation Assay are now available.

Publication of two new OECD Monographs in the Series on Testing and Assessment

05-Jul-2006

Two new Guidance Documents on the Current Approaches in the Statistical Analysis of Ecotoxicity Data: A Guidance to Application and on Simulated Freshwater Lentic Field Tests (Outdoor Microcosms and Mesocosms) were declassified and published in June 2006.

Visit the Guidance and Review Documents published in the Series on Testing and Assessment  section to download the documents.

New and Revised Test Guidelines Published

05-Jul-2006

The OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals are a collection of the most relevant internationally agreed test methods used by government, industry and independent laboratories to determine the safety of chemicals and chemical preparations, including pesticides and industrial chemicals. They cover tests for the physical-chemical properties of chemicals, human health effects, environmental effects, and degradation and accumulation in the environment and pesticide residue chemistry.

Endocrine Disrupters Testing and Assessment (EDTA) Task Force

26-Jan-2006

The Endocrine Disrupters Testing and Assessment (EDTA) Task Force will speed up its validation and reporting activities for test methods in environmental species during 2006-2007.

This includes test methods already on the workplan of the Test Guidelines Programme in the area of fish testing for potential endocrine disrupters, testing on amphibians for the detection of thyroid disruption, and testing on invertebrates for assessment of ED on development and reproduction.

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OECD Principles for the Validation of (Quantitative) Structure-Activity Relationships for Regulatory Purposes

24-Nov-2004

In November 2004, the OECD member countries agreed on the principles for validating (Q)SAR models for their use in regulatory assessment of chemical safety.  (Q)SARs are methods for estimating the toxicity and other properties of a chemical from its molecular structure.  They have been used in regulatory assessment of chemical safety in some OECD countries for many years, but not in others.  The agreed principles and associated report from the OECD Expert Group on (Q)SARs will contribute to their enhanced use for more efficient assessment of chemical safety.