Chemical Assessment and Management

The IFCS was established to improve coordination and cooperation by identifying and building consensus on chemicals assessment and management priorities, coordinating, and monitoring international and regional action related to sound chemicals management. 

EPA (2008a). Chemical Assessment and Management Program (ChAMP). htq> //www.epagov/champ/. 

This element has been taken on by the ICCA who have produced a draft list of 1200 High Production Volume (HPV) chemicals. The Chemicals Assessment and Management groups of the various industry associations have programmes for gathering information on these chemicals and others already on priority lists. Beyond the Confidence in Chemicals Initiative are a number of related national commitments. These include self-commitment by the German chemical industry under the auspices of VCI to establish a minimum data set for all chemicals (including intermediates). 

EPA had begun its Chemical Assessment and Management Program (ChAMP) in 2007 to implement broader international commitments to ensure the safety of existing chemicals. Over the last several years, EPA expanded the horizon of ChAMP to potentially include voluntary challenge programs for wider categories of chemicals and chemicals present in the... 

These challenges are critical to the profession of chemical engineering, the chemical industry, and our country. Risk assessment and management involve input from a multitude of different disciplines. The methodology is rapidly changing and extremely complex and reqrrires both technical input and input from professionals with expertise in legal, economic, judicial, medical, regrrlatory, and public perception issues. 

Policies and procedures for risk management decisions must be estabhshed and be clear and simple if the massive, but necessary, workload of risk assessment and management is not to cripple the chemical industiy s worldwide competitive position and consume inordinate resources through inefficiency. 

There is a growing need to better characterize the health risk related to occupational and environmental exposure to pesticides. Risk characterization is a basic step in the assessment and management of the health risks related to chemicals (Tordoir and Maroni, 1994). Evaluation of exposure, which may be performed through environmental and biological monitoring, is a fundamental component of risk assessment. Biomarkers are useful tools that may be used in risk assessment to confirm exposure or to quantify it by estimating the internal dose. Besides their use in risk assessment, biomarkers also represent a fundamental tool to improve the effectiveness of medical and epidemiological surveillance. 

The lowest and most focused manufacturing level is the turret level, which represents the actual material transformation process itself. Energy assessment and management at this level involves knowledge of the interactions of the mechanical and chemical processes in order to establish theoretical energy consumption values of the process. 

Global Risk-Based Management of Chemical Additives II Risk-Based Assessment and Management Strategies... 

Smrchek, J. C, Zeeman, M. G. (1998). Assessing Risks to Ecological Systems from Chemicals, In P. Calow, (Ed.) Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management Oxford Blackwell Science, pp. 417—452. 

Ahmed FE, Hattis D, Wolke RE, et al. 1993. Risk assessment and management of chemical contaminants in fishery products consumed in the USA. J Appl Toxicol 13(6) 395-410. 

The remaining parts of this chapter will provide detailed information about each of these six steps. However, specific strategies for risk assessment and management may need additional elements, depending on the nature of the hazard, the foods in which it may occur and other specific conditions. For example, some additives may also occur as natural constituents in the diet or may be chemically altered when they come into contact with food components. For such substances a unique approach may need to be developed. 

A vital objective of future European chemicals policy is to avoid uncontrolled handling of hazardous substances. Assessment of each individual application on the basis of the individual substances involved (as provided for by the current regulatory system) is not an apt strategy, as the number of assessment and management cases that it produces is much too high. Quantitative risk analyses are only taken into account in the case of substances with clearly definable effect thresholds and controllable application conditions. For 90% of the market actors the particular product or application system must possess intrinsically safe properties, as most companies have neither closed systems nor the reqnired skills to deal with hazardons snbstances. 

Risk Assessment and Management at Deseret Chemical Depot and the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (September 1997)... 

NRC. 1997. Risk Assessment and Management at Deseret Chemical Depot and the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program, Board on Army Science and Technology. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press. 

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