Chemical safety - World Health Organization (WHO) Chemical Safety is achieved by undertaking all activities involving chemicals in such a way as to ensure the safety of human health and the environment It covers all chemicals, natural and manufactured, and the full range of exposure situations from the natural presence of chemicals in the environment to their extraction or synthesis, industrial production, transport use and disposal
IPCS Risk Assessment Terminology IPCS harmonization project document n 1Overview The WHO IPCS Harmonization Project has addressed a number of exposure assessment issues, resulting in this guidance and in the IPCS harmonization project documents n 3 and n 6 as well The objective of this joint IPCS OECD project was to develop internationally harmonized terms used in chemical hazard risk assessment In addition, a harmonized
IPCS mode of action framework - World Health Organization (WHO) IPCS harmonization project document no 4Overview Part 1: IPCS framework for analysing the relevance of a cancer mode of action for humans and case-studies Part 2: IPCS framework for analysing the relevance of a non-cancer mode of action for humans In 2001 the IPCS Conceptual Framework for Evaluating an (animal) Mode of Action for Chemical Carcinogenesis was published This framework provided
Chemical-specific adjustment factors for interspecies differences and . . . IPCS harmonization project document no 2Home Publications Overview Chemical-specific adjustment factors for interspecies differences and human variability : guidance document for use of data in dose concentration-response assessment
Guidelines for poison control - World Health Organization (WHO) The need for advice on poison control, particularly with a view to encouraging countries to establish poison information centres, was recognized at a joint meeting of the World Federation, the IPCS, and the EC, held at WHO headquarters, Geneva, from 6 to 9 October 1985
IPCS - World Health Organization (WHO) United Nations The International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), established in 1980, is a joint venture of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) The overall objec tives of the IPCS are to establish the scientific basis for assessment of the risk to human health and the environment from
Principles and methods for the risk assessment of chemicals in food The purpose of this monograph is 2-fold: 1) to provide descriptive guidance for JECFA and JMPR to ensure the continuation of transparent and sound expert evaluations of scientific data for risk assessments of chemicals in food; and 2) to be informative for users of the outputs from JECFA and JMPR, such as risk managers and other risk assessment bodies in Member countries and authorities