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Poisons information and management

  • Sound Management of Pesticides and Diagnosis and Treatment of Pesticide Poisoning, WHO-UNEP 2006, English
    pdf, 3.21Mb

Chemicals assessment

  • Hazardous chemicals in human and environmental health: A resource book for school, college and university students [pdf 10.3Mb]
    (WHO/PCS/00.1)
  • IPCS Training module No. 1: Chemical safety - Fundamentals of applied toxicology: The nature of chemical hazards (2nd rev. ed.) [pdf 2.7MB]
    Section 1.1 - Physical form of chemicals; Section 1.2 - Health effects of chemicals (WHO/PCS/97.14)
  • IPCS Training module no 2: Laboratory handling of mutagenic and carcinogenic products [pdf 5.3MB]
    (WHO/PCS98.9) 1998
  • IPCS Training module No. 3: Chemical risk assessment - Human risk assessment, environmental risk assessment and ecological risk assessment [pdf 4.4MB]
  • IPCS Training module No. 4: General scientific principles of chemical safety [pdf 7.2MB]
    (WHO/PCS/00.8)
  • IPCS Training module No. 4 (document 2): General scientific principles of chemical safety [pdf 5.7MB]

Chemical incidents and emergencies

  • Manual for the Public Health Management of Chemical Incidents
  • Public health response to biological and chemical weapons: WHO guidance (2004)

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CICADs

CICAD 67

  • Selected 2-Alkoxyethanols
    pdf, 1.70Mb

EHCs

EHC 241

  • DDT in Indoor Residual Spraying: Human health aspects

Pesticides

  • The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard

Prevention

  • Guidelines on the prevention of toxic exposures

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