Environmental risk guidelines

TNO Institute of Environmental Sciences, Guidelines for Quantitative Risk Assessment, Amsterdam Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, 1999. 

NRMMC-EPHC (2006) Australian guidelines for water recycling Managing health and environmental risks. Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council and Environment Protection and Heritage Council - Australia. ISBN 1 921173 07 6... 

The liquid and solid effluents are well characterized. As the ACW I Committee noted in its original and supplemental reports, the gaseous process emissions will have to be characterized for health risk assessments and environmental risk assessments required by EPA guidelines (NRC, 1999, 2000a). These results, along with the results of analyses of metals emissions (including chromium VI), can be used to assess the environmental impact of a facility through accepted risk-assessment methods (EPA, 1998). 

EMEA CHMP (2006) Guideline on the Environmental Risk Assessment of Medicinal Products for Human Use. 

Some guidelines for decision-makers charged with finding optimal solutions for dealing with HWW are suggested below they are based on the expected/observed fate, behaviour and environmental risk of PhCs, and the ability of proposed treatments to guarantee the highest removal rates and to preserve aquatic environment from persistent compounds. 

EMEA (2006) Guideline on the environmental risk assessment of medicinal products for human use CFIMP/SWP/4447/00. The European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products, London... 

The EU Directive 92/18/EEC [122] introduced for the first time the requirement for an ERA, as a prerequisite to obtain marketing authorization for veterinary pharmaceuticals. For this purpose, the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) published a Note for Guidance where guidelines to assess the environmental risk of veterinary medicinal products are established [123]. 

The Swedish Classification Scheme initiated in 2005 by the Swedish Association of Pharmacy Industries (LIF), the Swedish Medical Products Agency, Apoteket (National Corporation of Swedish Pharmacies), the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions and the Stockholm County Council, take in account Persistence, Bioaccumulation and Toxicity (PBT) characteristics of pharmaceutical products. This voluntary scheme looks at the environmental hazard and the associated risk of pharmaceutical products. The environmental risk is calculated based on the ratio PEC/PNEC according to the EMEA guideline [17,124, 127]. The obtained information is only available on the website www.fss.se, since due to European restrictions it is not possible to include warning labels on the packaging of medications [17]. 

Straub JO. 2002. Environmental risk assessment for new human pharmaceuticals in the European Union according to the draft guideline/discussion paper of January 2001. Toxicol Lett 135 231-237. 

Finding 2-4. The requirements for conducting a health and environmental risk assessment for the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility are similar to the state of Indiana requirements for a risk assessment of gaseous emissions from a commercial PCB incinerator. These requirements, which are similar to EPA guidelines for health risk assessments, are a reasonable approach to assessing the health risk posed by the NECDF. 

Guideline on Risk Assessment of Medicinal Products on Human Reproductive and Development Toxicides from Data to Labelling 1. Guideline on Environmental Risk Assessments... 

DETR (2000) Guidelines for Environmental Risk Assessment and Management. The Stationery Office, P.O. Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN ISBN Oil 753551 6. 

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