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Training and guidance

Poisons information and management

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

Guidelines on the prevention of toxic exposures [pdf 766kb]

The clinical management of snake bites in the South East Asian Region

Guidelines for poison control

Analytical toxicology

Management of Poisoning: A handbook for health care workers

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

Public health and chemicals incidents: Guidance for national and regional policy makers in the public environmental health roles [pdf 1.13Mb]

Public health response to biological and chemical weapons: WHO guidance (2004)

NEW PUBLICATIONS

CICADS

CICAD 74
2-Butenal
Download [pdf 1.62Mb]

CICAD 75
Cyclic acid anhydrides: Human health aspects
Download [pdf 974kb]

CICAD 76
Inorganic chromium(III) compounds
Download [pdf 1.50Mb]

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

The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard

PREVENTION

Guidelines on the prevention of toxic exposures

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