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The costs and benefits of regulating chemicals

The OECD has set up the SWACHE project to establish internationally comparable values for the willingness-to-pay (WTP) to avoid negative health effects due to exposure to chemicals. The health effects valued include asthma, fertility loss, IQ loss, chronic kidney disease, and very low birth weight.

OECD Work Related to Endocrine Disrupters

The OECD has published the Revised Guidance Document 150 on Standardised Test Guidelines for Evaluating Chemicals for Endocrine Disruption originally published in 2012 and updated in 2018 to reflect new and updated OECD test guidelines, as well as reflect on scientific advances in the use of test methods and assessment of the endocrine activity of chemicals.

Pesticide risk reduction

This page tells about the OECD Pesticide Risk Reduction project.

Essai n° 458: Essai d'activation transcriptionnelle faisant intervenir le récepteur des androgènes humain transfecté de façon stable pour la détection de l'activité androgénique agoniste et antagoniste des produits chimiques

Essai n° 491 : Méthode d'essai d'exposition de courte durée in vitro pour l'identification des produits chimiques i) provoquant des lésions oculaires graves ou ii) ne relevant d'aucune classification pour irritation oculaire ou lésion oculaire grave

Lignes directrices de l’OCDE pour les essais de produits chimiques

Le 26 juin, l'OCDE a adopté un ensemble de Lignes Directrices pour les essais de produits chimiques de manière à tenir compte des progrès des connaissances scientifiques et des techniques pour les membres de l'OCDE et les pays adhérents à l'acceptation mutuelle des données (AMD).

Emergency responses for the supply of disinfectants against Covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic calls for urgent policy responses to support the supply of disinfectant products such as hand sanitisers and wipes. The OECD is collecting and providing available information in countries to manage the emergency supply to increase availability of disinfectant products from different competent authorities and industry organisations.

OECD Good Laboratory Practice: Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

GLP issues raised by testing labs are covered in this comprehensive list of questions and answers, recently updated with questions related to: Test Facility organisation and personnel, Quality Assurance, Equipment and computerized systems, Test items, reference items and samples/specimens (Biologicals, GMOs, etc.), SOPs, Management of the study, Histopathology, Archives and E-Archives and Monitoring Test Facility compliance by GLP CMAs.

OECD Expert Group on BioPesticides Seminar on Bioinformatics and Regulation of Microbial Pesticides

24 June 2019: This OECD seminar presented and discussed the potential use of genome sequence, bioinformatic tools and databases in a regulatory decision process for microbial pesticides.

Section 3 Software: Environmental Fate and Behaviour (Softwares for TG 305 and TG 318)

Software to be used for Test Guidelines 305 and 318