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News & Events
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17-Oct-2011
Swiss residents currently enjoy easy access to a wide range of health care services and a vast array of choice in insurers and health care providers.
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12-Oct-2011
Users of eChemPortal are now able to search specific endpoint properties for substances contained in The Ecological Categorization Results from Canada Database. This Database contains the ecological categorization results for substances on the Canadian Domestic substance list and the supporting data on: Inherent toxicity, Persistency and Bioaccumulation.
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06-Oct-2011
As regulators face tighter budgets and chemical companies cut costs to remain competitive, governments increasingly count on OECD’s chemical policies and instruments to cost-effectively ensure that products are safe. "Cutting Costs in Chemicals Management: How OECD Helps Governments and Industry" analyses the rigorous and comprehensive system for assessing and managing chemicals – a system that saves governments and industry about EUR 150 million each year by “work sharing” facilitated by the OECD.
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03-Oct-2011
This publication examines the international drivers, the enabling technologies fast-tracking industrial biotechnology, industry trends, some of the products that are appearing on the market, industry structure and finance, and policy measures and trends. It examines separately biofuels, biobased chemicals and bioplastics.
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30-Sep-2011
Crop Field Trials (also referred to as supervised field trials) are conducted to determine the magnitude of the pesticide residue in or on raw agricultural commodities, including feed items, and should be designed to reflect pesticide use patterns that lead to the highest possible residues. While the OECD Guideline for the Testing of Chemicals on Crop Field Trial (TG 509, in September 2009) provides a harmonized approach to conducting and reporting crop field trials in OECD countries, this Guidance Document will help in planning the trials in OECD countries and in interpreting the results.
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28-Sep-2011
This OECD Emission Scenario Document (ESD) is intended to provide information on the sources, use patterns and release pathways of chemicals used in the chemical industry to assist in the estimation of releases of chemicals to the environment.
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20-Sep-2011
On 7-8 September 2011, the OECD organized a workshop in Paris on metals specificities in environmental risk assessment. Concepts of bioavailability, effects assessments, fate and bioaccumulation specific to metals were presented with illustrative examples. Participants generally agreed with proposed concepts and formulated recommendations for further work. A report will be available in a few weeks.
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12-Sep-2011
This report explores how new and evolving approaches to IP, such as licensing and auctions, patents pools, IP clearinghouses and emerging models of research collaborations are impacting the modern scientific environment in life sciences. It suggests ways in which both the public and private sectors seek to evolve from an “own and protect” model of intellectual property into an era of “own and share”, where value accrues not just to the initial owner of IP, but also to larger society as a whole.
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Events
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from 06-Oct-2011 to 07-Oct-2011
With the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and in collaboration with development partners, the World Bank has been coordinating a global initiative to improve resource tracking for better health outcomes and greater health systems accountability through institutionalisation of National Health Accounts. The preparatory phase of this global initiative culminates with a high-level meeting in Paris on 6-7th October 2011.
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from 06-Dec-2010 to 07-Dec-2010
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in partnership with the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Genomics Network (EGN) will host a major Forum on 6-7 December 2010 at the OECD Headquarters in Paris. This Forum will review how knowledge in the life sciences is governed, shared, regulated and managed, and to explore new linkages between the life sciences and information and communication technologies.
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from 28-Oct-2010 to 29-Oct-2010
The delivery of sustainable economic growth across multiple disciplines is a high priority on the policy agendas of the OECD member and non-member countries. Reviewing the industrial biotechnology innovation systems of these countries provides an excellent opportunity to evaluate the contribution to sustainable growth of this highly innovative and complex industrial sector.
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from 29-Jun-2010 to 17-Sep-2010
Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology are part of the core industrial sectors, which drives the transition of the main body of manufacturing sectors (e.g. IT, pharmaceutical, chemical, automotive, textile, food/feed, agriculture, etc.) towards more sustainable and greener economic and environmental models. Two major workshops are being held in these areas.
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from 16-Sep-2010 to 17-Sep-2010
The overall goal of the workshop is to understand the framework conditions that govern innovation in environmental biotechnology with a view to identifying and addressing inefficiencies. Workshop participants will include experts from industry, government, academia and international organisations, and non-governmental organisations.
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