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Chemicals play an important role in daily life. Therefore, their safety for man and the environment has to be considered carefully. This program works on the development and co-ordination of environment health and safety activities internationally.
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18-Nov-2009
OECD and UNITAR will hold Awareness-Raising Workshops on Nanotechnology/ Manufactured Nanomaterials for Developing and Transition Countries. These workshops will be organised in conjunction with SAICM UN regional meetings during 2009-2010, under the auspices of the IOMC following a request for action regarding nanotechnologies and nanomaterials. The workshops will inform on potential applications and risks from nanotechnologies and manufactured nanomaterials as well as look for opportunities for awareness raising activities to be undertaken in those countries.
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26-Oct-2009
The OECD List of High Production Volume (HPV) Chemicals serves as the overall priority list from which chemicals are selected for SIDS data gathering and testing and initial hazard assessment. It is compiled by the OECD Secretariat on the basis of regular submissions by Member countries reporting those industrial chemicals for which a Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Number had been assigned and which are produced or imported at levels greater than 1000 tonnes per year.
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02-Jul-2009
A first set of Frequently Asked Questions about the OECD QSAR Application Toolbox is now available. The (Q)SAR Application Toolbox is a software application intended to be used by governments, industry and other stakeholders to fill gaps in (eco)toxicity data needed for assessing the hazards of chemicals. The questions address a number of topics such as regulatory acceptance, content and quality of databases, contribution from stakeholders as well as installation and troubleshooting.
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29-May-2009
A new 30-page brochure on the activities of OECD’s Environment, Health and Safety Programme is now available. The brochure describes the work being undertaken in the 2009-2012 programme of work on chemicals and its related programmes and the place of the EHS programme in OECD. It provides an easily accessible overview of the programme for the general public as well as for use in briefing materials for governments and stakeholders. Paper copies can be ordered by sending a message to ehscont@oecd.org.
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18-May-2009
The Hazardous Substance Data Bank (HSDB) managed by the National Library of Medicine in the United States, The United States Environmental Protection Agency's Substance Registry Services (SRS) and Canada’s Existing Substances Assessment Repository (CESAR) were all 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.
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27-Feb-2009
The Guidance Document for using the OECD (Q)SAR Application Toolbox to develop chemical categories according to the OECD Guidance on Grouping of Chemicals is now available. The (Q)SAR Application Toolbox is a software application intended to be used by governments, industry and other stakeholders to fill gaps in (eco)toxicity data needed for assessing the hazards of chemicals. This new document specifically provides guidance on how to use the Toolbox to build chemical categories and fill data gaps by read-across or trend analysis according to the OECD Guidance on Grouping of Chemicals
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25-Feb-2009
Version 1.1 of the OECD (Q)SAR Application Toolbox is now available. It can be downloaded free of charge. This Toolbox is a software application intended to be used by governments, the chemical industry and other stakeholders to fill gaps in (eco)toxicity data needed for assessing the hazards of chemicals. With this Toolbox, a user can fill data gaps by read-across and trend analysis, group chemicals into categories and gain access to a library of (Q)SAR models.
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25-Feb-2009
Training material for gaining experience with the use of the OECD QSAR Application Toolbox is now available for download. Slide shows and videos are available which guide the user in a step-by-step manner through a number of representative workflows with the Toolbox. This material can be freely used for training purposes.
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