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Society : Safeguard social support for poorest families, says OECD’s Gurría

27-Apr-2011

Poverty in households with children is rising in nearly all OECD countries. Governments should ensure that family support policies protect the most vulnerable, according to the OECD’s first-ever report on family well-being.

Report on Structural Alerts for the Identification of Protein-Binding Chemicals now published

11-Apr-2011

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. The resulting set of alerts have been implemented in version 2.0 of the OECD QSAR Toolbox.

PRTR: Summary of Estimation Techniques for Releases from Products is now available

07-Apr-2011

The release of chemicals used in products is one of the key area where better knowledge is needed for a sound risk assessment and management of chemicals. OECD has just published a summary of estimation techniques for releases from products. This document outlines currently available techniques for quantifying releases of chemicals to the environment from the use phase of end-products. It also includes 11 case studies which target specific substances (e.g. lead) and product types (e.g. building and car care products and packages).

Two new data sources participate in eChemPortal

04-Apr-2011

The Canadian Categorization Results (CCR) and AGRITOX - Base de données sur les substances actives phytopharmaceutiques were recently added as new participating data sources in eChemPortal, the Global Portal to Information on Chemical Substances. eChemPortal provides direct links to collections of information prepared for government chemical review programmes at national, regional, and international levels.

Estimates for dissociation constant now available in the OECD QSAR Toolbox

29-Mar-2011

One of the major new features in version 2.1 of the OECD QSAR Toolbox is the availability of estimates of pKa for more than 100000 chemicals. Following an agreement with the company ChemAxon, pKa estimates have been generated with Chemaxon’s pKa calculator  and stored in the Toolbox. The availability of these estimates will greatly enhance the potential of the Toolbox to predict the behaviour of chemicals in the environment as well as their effects in animals and humans.

PESTICIDES: Report of the OECD Seminar on Risk Reduction through Prevention,Detection and Control of the Illegal International Trade in Agricultural Pesticides

11-Mar-2011

This report presents the results of an OECD Seminar (OECD, Paris, May 2010) that reviewed various key issues associated with risk reduction through prevention, detection and control of the illegal international trade in agricultural pesticides.  The seminar recommend the setting of an OECD network of experts and inspectors knowledgeable and active in fighting illegal trade of pesticides that could be used for rapid exchange of information on suspicious or rejected shipments.

PESTICIDES: Report of the OECD Seminar on Risk Reduction through Prevention,Detection and Control of the Illegal International Trade in Agricultural Pesticides

11-Mar-2011

This report presents the results and recommendations of an OECD Seminar on risk reduction through prevention, detection and control of the illegal international trade in agricultural pesticides. This one-day Seminar, held on 19 May 2010, was chaired by Wolfgang Zornbach (Germany), Chairman of the OECD Risk Reduction Steering Group (RRSG), and took place at OECD, in Paris, France.

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