In response to the Call for Experts to serve as members of an expert group to support WHO’s initiative to evaluate PFAS, issued: 19 May 2025 with application deadline: 30 June 2025, the following list of experts is proposed for the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Per- and Poly FluoroAlkyl Substances (PFAS) Assessment Phase 2. If you have any comments, please contact ipcsmail@who.int no later than 19 October 2025.
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.
The Networks
Publications
All →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...
This document sets out a classification system to distinguish between the more and the less hazardous forms of selected pesticides based on acute risk...
Self-poisoning with pesticides causes up to one in five of the world’s suicides. Pesticide registrars and regulators have a key role to play in suicide...
Other documents
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15 September 2011
Tools for data collection on pesticide exposures
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...
27 November 2008
Acutely Toxic Pesticides - a global guide to resources
Recognizing that poisoning of pesticide users and their communities, especially agricultural workers and small farmers in developing countries and countries...
Multimedia
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Facts in pictures
Initiative
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WHO Information document on ensuring integration of health aspects within the plastics treaty