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Concise international chemical assessment documents
Based on selected high-quality national or regional evaluations; they characterize hazard and dose-response from exposure to a chemical.

Environmental health criteria
Provides assessments of the effects of chemicals on human health and the environment; they are designed for scientific experts responsible for risk evaluation, enabling relevant authorities to establish policies for the safe use of these chemicals.

Harmonization project

Health and safety guides
Provides concise information on risks from exposure to chemicals, with practical advice on medical and administrative issues; they are designed for a wide range of administrators, managers, and decision-makers.

International chemical safety cards
Summarizes essential product identity data and health and safety information on chemicals; they are designed for use at shop-floor level, in factories, agriculture and other work places.

Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) publications

Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR)

Newsletters

Pesticide safety data sheets
Contains health and safety information on pesticide that are widely used in public health programmes and/or agriculture, and have high or unusual toxicity records.

Training and guidance

Publications relevant to the risk assessment of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Other relevant publications

Endocrine disruptors

Integrated risk assessment

World Health Assembly and Executive Board Resolutions relevant to the work of IPCS

Fact Sheet about IPCS [pdf 90kb]

WHO Workshop Report on Mechanisms of Fibre Carcinogenesis and Assessment of Chrysotile Asbestos Substitutes [pdf 292kb]

NEW PUBLICATIONS

CICADS

CICAD 74
2-Butenal
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CICAD 75
Cyclic acid anhydrides: Human health aspects
Download [pdf 974kb]

CICAD 76
Inorganic chromium(III) compounds
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EHCS

EHC 239
Principles for Modelling Dose-Response for the Risk Assessment of Chemicals
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JECFA

70th JECFA
Evaluation of certain veterinary drug residues in food. WHO TRS 954
Download

69th JECFA
Safety evaluation of certain food additives. WHO FAS 60
Download

PESTICIDES

PREVENTION

Guidelines on the prevention of toxic exposures

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