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.

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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...

WHO Human Health Risk Assessment Toolkit: Chemical Hazards, second edition

The purpose of the WHO human health risk assessment toolkit: chemical hazards is to provide its users with guidance to identify, acquire and use the information...

The WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard and guidelines to classification, 2019 edition

This document sets out a classification system to distinguish between the more and the less hazardous forms of selected pesticides based on acute risk...

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Under an international IPCS project on the epidemiology of human pesticides exposure a number of tools for data collection have been developed. These are:Pesticides...

Recognizing that poisoning of pesticide users and their communities, especially agricultural workers and small farmers in developing countries and countries...

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WHO Information document on ensuring integration of health aspects within the plastics treaty