This Methodological Guidance clarifies some aspects of the voluntary application of the 'safe and sustainable by design' (SSbD) framework for chemicals and materials. It combines the disciplines of "Risk Assessment" (RA) and "Sustainability Assessment" (SA), which have different methodologies,...

In 2020, the Chinese coal chemical industry processed nearly one quarter of national coal throughput, and accounted for about 5.4 per cent of national CO2 emissions. Yet the coal chemicals’ industry ability to limit oil and gas imports is appealing to the Chinese leadership in the context of...

The chemicals strategy for sustainability towards a toxic-free environment (CSS) embraces two overarching goals of the chemicals legislation: preventing harm to people and the planet from hazardous chemicals and their toxic effects and supporting EU industry in the production of safe and...

Vom 25. bis 29. September dieses Jahres wird in Bonn die International Conference on Chemicals Management 5 (ICCM5) - die Weltchemikalienkonferenz - stattfinden. Hier will die internationale Staatengemeinschaft zusammen mit weiteren Akteuren ein neues Abkommen schließen, um die dritte große...

The Coordinated Activities on the Safety of Products (CASP) projects enable all market surveillance authorities (MSAs) from European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries to jointly ensure that unsafe products are swiftly removed from the Single Market. This activity focused on...

This OECD Emission Scenario Document (ESD) is intended to provide information on the sources, use patterns, and potential release pathways of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing. The document presents standard approaches for estimating the environmental releases of and occupational exposures...

This chapter discusses the regulation of chemicals introduced into food during cultivation and processing. It covers chemicals intentionally added to facilitate production, enhance products, mislead buyers or physically harm consumers, as well as chemicals that inadvertently contaminate food...

In many industries firms can learn about new technologies from other adopters; mandatory disclosure regulations represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas industry to examine firm claims that disclosure...

Substitution contributes to the overarching EU objectives for a non-toxic environment and a circular economy, wherein innovation and sustainable production and consumption are key elements. The progressive substitution of substances of very high concern by suitable alternatives is also one of...

In many industries firms can learn about new technologies from other adopters; mandatory disclosure regulations represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas industry to examine firms' claims that disclosure...

This document sets out a programme of actions to improve information on safe use in the supply chains for chemicals. Its focus is the generation, communication and application of use and exposure information on hazardous substances and mixtures under the REACH Regulation, and the corresponding...

This document serves to present the methodology by which SCOEL derives recommendations or opinions that are provided to the European Commission (EC) and in particular, to the EC's Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL). The methodology follows seven Frames of...

Part of the European Union's mission is to improve well-being of its citizens, among others by ensuring safe use of chemicals. One of the most significant regulatory measures governing the use of chemicals in the EU, is the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of and Restriction Chemicals...

The ECHA website is a unique source of information on the chemicals manufactured and imported in Europe. It provides their hazardous properties, classification and labelling, and information on how to use them safely. This page outlines the information most relevant to users of chemicals in...

When you receive exposure scenarios (ESs) annexed to safety data sheets (SDSs), you need to check that your use and conditions of use are covered in the ES provided by your supplier. If not, one option is to prepare a downstream user chemical safety report (DU CSR). This page outlines the mains...

Exposure scenarios (ESs) are sometimes provided with safety data sheets (SDSs); together they are called extended safety data sheets. Exposure scenarios summarise the key information from the chemical safety assessment prepared for REACH registration. They describe how the registrant recommends...

The REACH regulation (EC) 1907/2006 includes the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals. The aim is to protect human health and the environment from risks from chemicals. REACH supports and complements other EU legislation that also applies to users of chemicals,...

A key policy objective of the REACH regulation is to encourage the substitution of chemicals of concern by less hazardous alternative substances or processes. This page describes the regulatory risk management processes in REACH and CLP that support that policy.

The allocation of authority to regulate toxic chemicals in the United States should be governed by the principle of precautionary federalism. In this context, the principle of precautionary federalism dictates that state efforts to regulate toxic chemicals more stringently than the federal...

This OECD Emission Scenario Document (ESD) is intended to provide information on the sources, use patterns, and potential release pathways of additive chemicals used in automotive finished lubricants. The document presents standard approaches for estimating the environmental releases of and...

This is Volume 13b in the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) “Chemical Thermodynamics” series. It is the second part of a critical review of the thermodynamic properties of iron, its solid compounds and aqueous complexes, initiated as part of the NEA Thermochemical Database Project Phase IV...

The TTIP negotiation efforts in chemicals are not ambitious enough. The focus in TTIP has been far too much on the differences in the two ‘systems’ rather than on the factual level of health and environmental protection for substances regulated by both the US and the EU. Given OECD...

The Commission’s final report into chemicals and plastics regulation acknowledges that government intervention to manage risks associated with chemicals and plastics is warranted where benefits materially exceed costs. Chemicals regulations are generally grafted onto (differing) state and...

Chemical looping utilising metal oxide carrier has emerged as one of the very promising technologies with the potential to capture CO2 while maintaining high plant power generation efficiency. After validation of chemical looping for solid fuels at 10 kWth scale, the Éclair programme represents...

This paper takes advantage of an exogenous shift towards patenting in chemicals to test whether patents contribute to the geographic diffusion of innovations. Data on U.S. innovations that were exhibited at four world fairs between 1851 and 1915 suggest that innovative activity became less...

Malaria kills millions of people each year and hundreds of millions more suffer chronic illness. Economic development is inhibited and poverty is perpetuated. Tren and Bate argue that action against malaria is over-centralised and narrowly focused, ignoring local conditions and concerns. Health...

The purpose of this working paper is to review existing chemical risk assessment methods in the context of supporting socio-economic cost-benefit analysis, focusing on more “typical” risk assessments that may not have strong epidemiologic data and/or were not originally designed to support...