Chemical Safety and Health
Through the Chemical Safety and Health Unit, WHO works to establish the scientific basis for the sound management of chemicals, and to strengthen national capabilities and capacities for chemical safety.
Chemical incidents and poisonings
Key publications
4 December 2025
Prioritizing food safety issues related to chemical water quality in agrifood systems
Reliable access to safe and sufficient water is critical to food security and protecting public health. However, water systems face unprecedented pressure...
14 January 2021
Guidelines for establishing a poison centre
This publication is an update of the Guidelines for poison control, published by WHO in 1997 under the auspices of the International Programme on Chemical...
The document gives an overview of the role and activities of the health sector at all stages of the risk-management cycle. Hazard-specific annexes provide...
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