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Principles and Methods for the Risk Assessment of Chemicals in Food - Environmental Health Criteria 240
(2009)
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 ...
Disinfectants and Disinfectant By-Products - Environmental Health Criteria 216
(2000)
Chlorine (Cl,) has been widely used throughout the world as a chemical disinfectant, serving as the principal barrier to microbial contaminants in drinking-water. The noteworthy biocidal attributes of chlorine have been ...
Biomarkers in Risk Assessment: Validity and Vlidation - Environmental Health Criteria 222
(2001)
The aim of risk assessments is to provide society with estimates of the likelihood of illnesses and injury as a consequence of exposure
to various hazards. Risk assessments are needed when social policy decisions are in ...
Extremely Low Frequency Fields - Environmental Health Criteria 238
(2007)
This Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) monograph addresses the possible health effects of exposure to extremely low frequency (ELF) electric and magnetic fields. It reviews the physical characteristics or ELF fields as ...
Human Exposure Assessment - Environmental Health Criteria 214
(2000)
This current criteria document on human exposure assessment presents in one publication the concepts, rationale, and statistical and procedural methodologies for human exposure assessment. The underpinnings of exposure ...
Desalination: Resource and Guidance Manual for Environmental Impact Assessments
(2008)
The world's oceans have always been a source of food and other goods. The industrial‐scale production of drinking water from the sea, however, has only become possible since the 1950s. Today the worldwide number of ...
IPCS Mode of Action Framework 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
(2007)
The IPCS Harmonization Project goal is to improve chemical risk assessment globally, through the pursuit of common principles and approaches, and, hence, strengthen national and international management practices that ...
Screening Information Data Set: SIDS for High Production Volume Chemicals - OECD Initial Assessment Volume 6 Part 1
(2000)
The OECD Screening Information Data Sets (SIDS) project is a cooperative effort of OECD countries designed to collect information on High Production Volume chemicals. One of the goals of the SIDS project is to locate the ...
Health & Environment: Tools for Effective Decision-Making: Review of Initial Findings
(2004)
In response to the urgent need for a more coherent and proactive policy agenda, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) joined forces at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable ...
Guidance for Identifying Populations at Risk from Mercury Exposure
(2008)
This “Guidance for Identifying Populations at Risk from Mercury Exposure” is intended to inform countries concerned about the potential health impacts of mercury pollution and, if necessary, to assist in identifying specific ...