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Saving Costs in Chemicals Management - How the OECD Ensures Benefits to Society

Considerations for Assessing the Risks of Combined Exposure to Multiple Chemicals

This document outlines various approaches and methodologies for the assessment of risks from combined exposures to multiple chemicals. The document draws from approaches and experience in the regulatory context, and presents elements to consider in the assessment.

German database Information system für gefährliche Stoffe IGS

German database Information system für gefährliche Stoffe IGS is now linked to eChemPortal. The IGS provides public access to a variety of information on chemical and microbiological substances mostly in German. The focus is on regulatory information reflecting German and European, as well as Swiss, US and selected other legislation and assessments. Beside this, information on substance data and emergency procedures is available.

Emission Scenario Document (ESD) On Chemical Vapour Deposition In The Semiconductor Industry

The Emission Scenario Document (ESD) is intended to provide information on the sources, use patterns, and potential release pathways of chemicals used as chemical vapour deposition (CVD) precursors in the semiconductor industry. The document presents standard approaches for estimating environmental releases and occupational exposures, and discusses the typical engineering controls used to mitigate exposure to CVD precursors.

Emission Scenario Document (ESD) On The Use Of Adhesives

This OECD Emission Scenario Document (ESD) is intended to provide information on the sources, use patterns, and potential release pathways of chemicals used in adhesive products, specifically during the use of adhesives in various industries.

Emission Scenario Document (ESD) On Industrial Use Of Industrial Cleaners

This ESD covers the use of chemicals in the industrial cleaning process. The industry categories relevant to this ESD are industrial category (IC) 4 (electrical/electronic industry) and IC 8 (Metal extraction, refining and processing).The cleaners targeted in this ESD are for use on metallic parts used in machinery and in various metal industries.

A new guidance is now available to facilitate the ecological risk assessment of organometallic and organic metal salt substances

The OECD has published guidance to facilitate the ecological risk assessment of organometallic and organic metal salt substances. A strategy is presented based on key steps that first consider the fate of these substances in the environment, the identification of moieties of concern, and subsequently the selection of an appropriate path forward to either assess the inorganic moiety and/or the individual substance.

Report of the pilot exercise on classifications for selected chemicals assessed at CoCAM

The OECD has published a report on a pilot chemical classification exercise undertaken in 2013 and ‘14. Using a number of chemical assessments agreed in the OECD hazard assessment programme, reasons why classification proposals may differ were investigated. The report concludes on the main reasons for such differences, and recommends some measures to overcome some of them.

Rapport de l'atelier de l'OCDE sur l'exposition des enfants aux produits chimiques

Ce document concerne un atelier sur l’exposition des enfants aux produits chimiques qui s’est tenu le 7-8 octobre 2013, Utrecht, Pays bas. Les principaux résultats sont : 1) un arbre décisionnel pour aider les évaluateurs à savoir quand réaliser des études d’évaluation du risque et de l’exposition des enfants ; et 2) des recommandations pour des travaux de recherche sur des questions spécifiques de l’évaluation de l’exposition. [432]

Guidance on grouping of chemicals, second edition

The OECD has published the second edition of the guidance on grouping of chemicals. This edition has been augmented with experience and examples encountered in the OECD Cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme. It also introduces new or revised guidance on elaborating the analogue and category approach, quantitative and qualitative read-across, justifying read-across, and using bioprofiling results for grouping chemicals.