7-August-2014
English
Report of an OECD survey on the assessment of the risks from obsolete pesticides in OECD countries
OECD has published a report of a survey that provides information and recommendations on how to deal with stocks of “obsolete” pesticides in OECD member (and partner) countries. Such pesticides’ obsolescence can arise for a number of reasons including product deterioration, product de-registration, and product revision.
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18-July-2014
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Guidance document on an integrated approach on testing and assessment (IATA) for skin corrosion and irritation
This guidance document proposes an integrated approach on testing and assessment for skin corrosion and irritation, in view of replacing the "testing and evaluation strategy" provided in the supplement to OECD TG404 (to be updated), provides information on key performance characteristics of each information source comprising the IATA, and guidance on how to integrate information for decision making for classification and labeling.
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15-July-2014
English
Report of the OECD expert meeting on the physical chemical properties of manufactured nanomaterials and test guidelines
This report includes the conclusions and recommendation of an expert workshop on Physical-Chemical Properties of Manufactured Nanomaterials and Test Guidelines organized by OECD’s Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials. The workshop addressed issues relevant to the physical-chemical properties of manufactured nanomaterials from a regulatory perspective point with a view to the need for new or adapted test guidelines.
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8-July-2014
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Weight of evidence assessment for the skin sensitisation potential of 4-isopropylaniline
This OECD monograph demonstrates how a chemical hazard assessment that considers and ranks all available relevant information - a so-called weight of evidence approach - can be constructed to conclude on a particular hazard endpoint for a chemical, in this case, skin sensitisation for 4-isopropylaniline.
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19-June-2014
English
Consensus document on the biology of cassava
This document is a tool for environmental safety assessment of novel varieties of Cassava derived from modern biotechnology. Cassava is a key staple crop in Africa, Asia and Latin America, this document will be useful to many readers interested in biosafety issues.
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3-June-2014
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The Global Harmonised Submission Transport Standard (GHSTS) has been published
The first version of the Globally Harmonised Submission and Transport Standard was published May 2014. The GHSTS is a standardised set of technical specifications used to assemble electronic files for any pesticide package in a predefined manner. Once the files are assembled according to the specifications, they can be transferred from a business entity to a regulatory authority and can be extracted for use in a regulatory process.
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23-May-2014
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Removal/emission predictions of wastewater treatment for exposure assessment and Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers
This document compiles information on the current methodologies, tools and models and helps readers identify appropriate models/ and methodologies for estimating substance-specific removal/emissions from wastewater treatment systems. It could support efforts to improve these models and tools.
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24-April-2014
English
Report of the OECD/KEMI/EU workshop on microbial pesticides: assessment and management of risks
A report of the 2013 joint OECD/Swedish Chemicals Agency/European Commission workshop on the assessment and management of risks of microbial pesticides that resulted in 20 recommendations for approaches that could be taken now and areas for follow-up work to be undertaken by OECD or Member countries.
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- Addendum 1: Report of the OECD/KEMI/EU Workshop on Microbial Pesticides: Assessment and Management of Risks
- Addendum 2: Report of the OECD/KEMI/EU workshop on microbial pesticides: assessment and management of risks
- Addendum 3: Report of the OECD/KEMI/EU workshop on microbial pesticides: assessment and management of risks
24-April-2014
English
Managing pesticide risk to insect pollinators: new website
This website gives information about the regulatory approaches adopted by OECD member countries to mitigate pesticide risks to insect pollinators. Following a survey of OECD member countries, it was concluded that mitigation of risks to insect pollinators is important to all its member countries, and that mitigation is a critical component of balancing the benefits of plant protection products with potential risks to insect pollinators.
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15-April-2014
English
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.